Netherlands in source language maens „low land“. As the old saying goes „God created the Earth, but Netherlander made up  Netherlands”. 40% of  Netherlands territory is occupied from the see, lakes and swamps. More than 50% of territory is below see-level. Therefore year in, year out locals had to fight with see, build dikes and drain the ground because of floods. 

Otherwise navigation is part of the Holland. It is first place in the world according the lenght of all navigation canals, it consist 4832 km. The see topic is perennial theme for Netherlander. This country named as marine nation, it always was famous for its seafolks, fishermans and dockers.

The visiting-card of Netherlands are windmills, here are more than 1000 still working traditional windmills, clogs, fish markets and of course tulip. Holland is titled the biggest parttere in the world.

Netherlands famous for it’s liberality as well. There are legalized soft drugs, prostitution and euthanasia, homosexual pairs can marriage here. The first two are more for tourist and common in bigger cities. Historically Amsterdam has always had a relaxed and tolerant approach to alternative lifestyles. Tolerance here is based on respect and acceptance of the differences between people. Differences in the form of skin colour, faith, sexual orientation or political persuasion.

However, as distinct from metropolitan life in smaller cities are calmer, people are more conservative.  

Ones more speaking about Holland is bicycle. In the Netherlands, Life Runs on 2 Wheels.

The national dish of Dutch is cheese. There are various kinds of cheese: with caraway, with garlic, with nettle, with smoked ham etc. You can find cosy small local creamery and to see how they own making cheese.