Category: Life Style

The chance that we will ever sleep there ourselves is very small, because an overnight stay is not exactly cheap. You can book the least luxurious room from around 1200 euros per night. You can book the Seine Suites from 4000 euros and for the Notre Dame Suite you pay no less than 5408 euros…

I sometimes get the question whether cats can get dementia. The short answer is yes, but it is rare and abnormal or ‘demented’ behavior in older cats is usually due to other problems. Older cats may meow louder and ask for food more often, making it seem like they’ve forgotten they’ve eaten before. Sometimes they…

Pop-up winter festival in the forests of Drenthe From November 12, Winterwoods around Elp will open their wooden doors and you can enjoy what nature has to offer, in the middle of the forests of Drenthe. Winterwoods has organized a whole range of winter activities for your stay. Think of yoga workshops, outdoor hot tubs…

It should come as no surprise that it is the caffeine in coffee that has a major impact on our bodies. Caffeine stimulates your adrenal glands. Your adrenal glands are where the stress hormone cortisol is released. After just a few minutes, the caffeine starts to work and cortisol is released in your body. After…

This is how you make these brownies with passion fruit, one of the 75 fun baking recipes from the new book The Pink Griddle (Becht Publishers) by Rukmini Iyer. Preheat the (convection) oven to 160 degrees. Gently heat the sugar, olive oil and chocolate in a pan, stirring gently until melted. Then stir in the…

First of all, let’s start by emphasizing that it is important for your energy level to live as healthy as possible. Healthy food, enough exercise and enough sleep are essential. But there are a number of habits that secretly demand a lot of energy from you, without you noticing it immediately. We list a few…

There are those objects that roam the family and that are special in their own right, in appearance or age, but whose background no one knows exactly. Grandparents and great-aunts or uncles who knew ‘the story’ have passed away. Then throw it away? Wim Sanders thinks not. Through a deceased uncle, this walking stick with…

The Netherlands has traditionally not been a cider country. Crazy really: we have a lot of apple orchards, but the drink never really got a foothold. It is different elsewhere in Europe. It is made in France, in Normandy and Brittany, among others. France is the world’s largest producer of cider. They have been making…

‘We then sat at the table and clumsily kissed like children of ’16.’ When I read this, I completely pictured how 79-year-old Joost Prinsen and 75-year-old Noraly Beyer suddenly found each other and felt love. Joost then invited her to dinner and asked Noraly to bring a toothbrush. They have been a couple ever since….

For Hungarians gulyas always a (well-filled) soup; not so much a stew. The word means cowboy and the dish is said to have been invented by shepherds in the 9th century. This variant is from Taste Hungary, which organizes food tours and (wine) tastings there. Don’t let it burn Heat the oil in a large…