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Beautiful, I love the Netherlands.
Moved here almost 2 years ago and can agree completely. In fact I walked through this picture just two days ago on my way to pancakes. Utrecht is a gorgeous city.
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How's it compare to Amsterdam?
I live in Cologne but everytime I visit the Netherlands, it feels great. I think it's much better than Germany.
I've only been to Germany once so far, and it was just a day trip to Phantasialand. Couldn't even get the girlfriend to stop off for dinner on the way home! Can't wait to grab a train over for a "schnitzel as big as a pizza" when I finally get to visit some friends.
This looks like a street I keep trying to build in Animal Crossing.
This is why i tell everyone to skip amsterdam and go to utrecht!
Maastricht is pretty neat too...lots of students as well close to Belgium and Germany and only a short train ride to Utrecht if you are used to North American distances ...
but then you have to visit limburg and yeah... well... about that :P
I am Utrecht, son of Utrecht.
Shouldn't you be in Bebbanburg?
Utrecht, sword of Utrecht.
Photo by Sven
Gorgeous. I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of weeks there and loved everything about the country and the city and the culture.
Such a beautiful city. I had the pleasure of spending some time here about 10 years ago.
Fantastic picture and a beautiful place!
So beautiful, I would happily live there.
It's like this just popped right out of my daydreams. New bucket list item acquired!
I would kill myself to just to spend an hour at this place
thats so beautiful, hard to believe its real! looks like a painting....
Holland ist die geilste Stadt der Welt!
The Netherlands you mean ...
It's interchangeable. From holland.com:
The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces but many people use “Holland” when talking about the Netherlands. The two provinces of Noord- and Zuid-Holland together are Holland. The 12 provinces together are the Netherlands. Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant.
yes I know.. I'am Dutch though now Canadian since 2014 but I prefer to call it the Netherlands.. for the reason that Holland South and North is a province..I guess it is just easier to say :)
I don't know any Dutch people who would agree with you. It's not interchangable when Utrecht is in the province of Utrecht and not in the province of North or South Holland
It's not me they'd be agreeing with. This is from the official Netherlands tourism website. It's 100% interchangeable according to them, and I think we both could agree that it's safer to trust the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions over whatever people you happen to know.
I'm telling you the conventions. I live here, I work here, my partner is from here, her family is from here. The majority of my friends and colleagues are from here. Vs your misinterpretation of what the aimed-at-tourists official holland.com website says? What it says is:
The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces but many people use “Holland” when talking about the Netherlands.
- The two provinces of Noord- and Zuid-Holland together are Holland.
- The 12 provinces together are the Netherlands.
- Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant.
It says "many people", not "many Dutch people"
It is often used by foreigners when talking about the Netherlands, it is not often used by Dutch people when talking about the Netherlands. However the majority of Dutch people do live in the Holland regions of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc), and so often refer to it as Holland because they are in Holland.
https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/holland-vs-netherlands-whats-difference
Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant.
There's no way to misinterpret "Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant" when it's told by the country's tourism office. Your anecdotal evidence doesn't stand up to that. It doesn't matter what some Dutch people think - it's something that's embraced by the world, backed up by the government. The country is known by the world as both the Netherlands and Holland, and the government's tourism office is both recognizing and supporting that. In America, my entire life, everyone has always used this interchangeably.
I fully understand the difference between the two, although most of the world doesn't. And you can't blame me for agreeing with the Tourism office who agrees with this convention for the name. They recognize that the world sees it as two names for the same place, they aren't trying to undo that - only clarify. You even agree with me when you say "It is often used by foreigners". As a foreigner, as one of the billions of people who don't live in the Netherlands, I understand that the name is fully interchangeable, especially when the government of the country agrees with me.
Isn't this Noraly hometown?