Hotel Name: Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy Address: Oostelijke Handelskade 34, Amsterdam I stayed at the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy in Amsterdam. The hotel was originally a hotel built by the shipping line, Royal Holland Lloyd. It then became temporarily housing for immigrants, a prison, an artists’ studios collective, before coming full circle to […]
Hotel Review: Volkshotel, Amsterdam – A hotel for digital nomads
Hotel Name: Volkshotel Address: Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam, Netherlands. I stayed at the Volkshotel in Amsterdam as a guest of the hotel (and arranged by Iamsterdam.com.) The Volkshotel is in the East Amsterdam area which undergone a regeneration over the last few years. The hotel is part of this regeneration story, having once been […]
Holland or the Netherlands?
[Map of the Netherlands with Holland highlighted] It seems that some people and media institutions still don’t understand the Holland/Netherlands relationship. Technically Holland is a region within the Netherlands made up of the two provinces of Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. Saying Holland when you mean the Netherlands is like saying England when you mean Great Britain. […]
