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Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort, the Netherlands ‘A taste of Europe’

Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort, the Netherlands ‘A taste of Europe’. Introduction. Obs de Dubbelster situated in Amersfoort The Netherlands has12 provinces Amersfoort is in the centre of the Netherlands in the province of Utrecht

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Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort, the Netherlands ‘A taste of Europe’

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  1. Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort, the Netherlands ‘A taste of Europe’

  2. Introduction • Obs de Dubbelster situated in Amersfoort • The Netherlands has12 provinces • Amersfoort is in the centre of the Netherlands in the province of Utrecht • 16.515.057 people on 41.528 km² = 398 people per km² • Multicultural society • Monarchy – Queen Beatrix • Flag: red/white/blue • Symbol of the Netherlands: Orange Lion

  3. Koppelpoort Tower Lange Jan Obs de Dubbelster

  4. A taste of the typically Dutch Tulips/ flowers Wooden shoes /Klompen Edam and Gouda Cheese Delftware 20 million bicycles Amsterdam canals and historic buildings Old-fashioned and modern windmills

  5. A taste of the Dutch (under) waterworld • Netherlands: 18% of the area consists of rivers, lakes, canals etc. • More than 30% lies below sea level • Water management: • Dikes/delta-works/afsluitdijk • Land of rivers (Rhine, Meuse, IJssel) • Old and new bridges • Transport over water, the port of Rotterdam

  6. Watermanagement 30% below sea level Delta works

  7. Dikes

  8. Afsluitdijk Delta works are necessary

  9. Zeeland bridge Erasmus bridge Rotterdam

  10. Port of Rotterdam

  11. A taste of Dutch events • Traditional sailing events • Ice-skating (elfstedentocht 200 km), Thialf • Traditional new-year dive in sea • Sinterklaas • Queensday – vrijmarkt

  12. Modern sailing events Replica of the VOC ship ‘Batavia’, 1628

  13. Speed skating

  14. New-year dive, Scheveningen

  15. Sinterklaas, 5 December

  16. QUEENSDAY APRIL 30 Market on queensday Queens day,

  17. A taste of Dutch art and culture • Great Dutch Painters • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) • Jan Steen (1626-1679) • Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) • Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) • Dutch culture • The diary of Anna Frank

  18. Johannes Vermeer Rembrandt van Rijn Vincent van Gogh Jan Steen

  19. Diary Of Anna Frank

  20. A taste of the Netherlands We eat a lot of international dishes. There is no such thing as Dutch restaurant. But we do have some typical Dutch food. For breakfast and lunch we eat Bread, bread with chocolate sprinkles, apple-syrup, cheese, ham, etc. For dinner we have potatoes and stew In the winter we eat Pea-soup We have a very special way of eating salty herring For snacks we eat Frikandel, kroket and bitterballen. It’s meat prepared in varies ways and fried. Poffertjes (tiny pancakes) We eat a lot of biscuits, Stroopwafels (syrup-waffle) and Pepernoten (spicy biscuits) are typical dutch Drop (it’s a very salty candy)

  21. Bread

  22. Potatoes and stew Pea soup

  23. Our way of eating herring (fish) kroket snacks Bitterballen Frikandel

  24. Poffertjes (tiny pancakes) Pepernoten, (spicy biscuits) Sirupwaffles

  25. THE END

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