Cindy Vriend, Author at BaldHiker

Zaanse Schans – Bringing Dutch History to Life

ByCindy Vriend Updated12 July 2021

While it was still glorious and sunny after my visit to the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, I took a short 10 min walk back to the Central Station. Of course when visiting the Netherlands you…

Amsterdam – Treasures of the Maritime Museum

ByCindy Vriend Updated17 August 2022

Amsterdam, with the highest density of museums in the world (over 60), is definitely not a place where you would get bored easily. And with the Netherlands being so closely connected to the sea throughout…

From Turkish Tulip to Dutch Icon

ByCindy Vriend Updated13 November 2022

As I’m born and raised in the Netherlands, so it is no surprise there had to come a post about tulips at some point. As the tulip is known worldwide to be closely related to…

The Crocus – An early celebration of Spring

ByCindy Vriend Updated11 February 2021

When Spring is well on its way, the sun is treating us to more and more beautiful days and slowly you can see the changes in nature, trees dressing up with green leaves, and flowers…

A walk along the East Side Gallery – Berlin

ByCindy Vriend Updated27 February 2021

After a lunch break near the Neptune Fountain the sky seemed to clear a bit and it stopped raining. Time to move on to our last Berlin location: East Side Gallery. Two months after the…

The Neptune Fountain of Berlin

ByCindy Vriend Updated1 March 2021

Although the sun was really trying hard today, the grey clouds still filled the sky. We had to move on, leaving the Berliner Dom behind us, we crossed the road and ended up on a…

The Netherlands, At Sunset and Sunrise

ByCindy Vriend Updated3 November 2022

(A favorite dogwalk and wonderful place to calm down – IJsselmeer, Hoorn) Sunrise and sunset is a beautiful time in the Netherlands. The silence and peace in the morning or the tranquil scenes at the…

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