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What Dutch People Actually Think About Tourists (And How Not to Be That Tourist)

What Dutch People Actually Think About Tourists (And How Not to Be That Tourist)

The Netherlands, and Amsterdam in particular, has one of the highest tourist-to-resident ratios of any city in the world. In 2024, roughly 20 million tourists visited a country of 18 million people — and concentrated overwhelmingly in a handful of po...

The Netherlands by Bike: Why the Dutch Built the World's Best Cycling Infrastructure

The Netherlands by Bike: Why the Dutch Built the World's Best Cycling Infrastructure

There are 23 million bicycles in the Netherlands — more than one for every person. Every day, Dutch people cycle 14 million kilometres collectively. The country has over 35,000 kilometres of dedicated cycle paths. This is not a quirk of Dutch charact...