29 min
Ep. 10 Come With Me-Holland-Dordrecht-Zeeland-Friesland Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
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In our final quick trip around the Netherlands, "Come With Me" author Schoonmaker breezes through much of South Holland, Zeeland and Friesland provinces. He gives us his definitive recommendations about what to see with comparative amounts of time, and even 'disses' a couple of towns and makes a typically misogynistic observation or two. Opinions given are not my own--this was 1928, and he was an art/architecture snob after all. [That opinion is mine.] A small excerpt finishes this episode from a surprise book. It's Mies Bouhuys' collection of black & white photographs, titled simply "Holland", 1971. The book was found on the sidewalk in a box, but is too moldy to share at length, and it also is probably not in the public domain. I remember seeing such books, written in three languages, only in Europe, before Taschen books were popular. As always, apologies for my accent in pronouncing Dutch and French names.
In our final quick trip around the Netherlands, "Come With Me" author Schoonmaker breezes through much of South Holland, Zeeland and Friesland provinces. He gives us his definitive recommendations about what to see with comparative amounts of time, and even 'disses' a couple of towns and makes a typically misogynistic observation or two. Opinions given are not my own--this was 1928, and he was an art/architecture snob after all. [That opinion is mine.] A small excerpt finishes this episode from a surprise book. It's Mies Bouhuys' collection of black & white photographs, titled simply "Holland", 1971. The book was found on the sidewalk in a box, but is too moldy to share at length, and it also is probably not in the public domain. I remember seeing such books, written in three languages, only in Europe, before Taschen books were popular. As always, apologies for my accent in pronouncing Dutch and French names.
29 min