"sweet love under my skin."

In the Netherlands, you can visit windmills, gaze at the De Nachtwacht, or take a boat ride on a canal. These are enjoyable activities, yet while doing them you are most likely going to be in the midst of a crowd of tourists, like yourself, and not around the bona fide burghers that make up this singular and compact country.

Getting to know and understand a country is what makes travel a transformative experience. Countries, like people, have a past that was crucial in shaping the present. T...

HANS VAN TIGCHELT, Born in Turnhout, Belgium, in 1964, married with two children, is a lover of sportscars and bluesrock, whilst professionally he's a manager in a large multinational. Little indication thus of him concealing a writer within, let alone a poet. Admittedly, his poetry is not your usual rhyme of love or the loss of it. Reading his lines is more like coming down with the flu: the more it sets in, the more poorly you will feel...

So beware:

THOUGHTS OF EONS will upset you and m...

Fresh out of a relationship, Brooks finds himself overcome by insecurity towards the women he meets. After a while he coincidentally comes across a very special person who might just be what he needed in this depressed state of drinking and smoking. For Brooks it seems difficult to embrace this newly found connection. Realising he may have made a big mistake, Brooks desperately tries to cling on to the idea of fixing this before it might be too late. His buddy Lex keeps him on the right track...

Dawn isn't your typical high school girl. Even though she loves fashion and feminine clothes, she dresses herself like a slouch to scare away people. To her disappointment, she gets chosen to be part of the student council, the most social position in her school.

Bullies dominate her high school life, but she doesn't mind. She doesn't listen to their name calling, their mean notes and their shameless bullying. Until one day, she finds a note at home.

"I know what happened when you were eleven"

In 'Into the New Dawn', we follow the story of an abused child, who struggles to trust people during her final year of high school. We unravel the secrets of her past and the coldness of her stalker....

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2013 © Artist Pepijn de Jonge

Most of us walk through life without an aim or proper sense of direction. Do you ever ask yourself on which road you are travelling? Is it the road you choose? Are you included in this roadmap?

First, you have to understand that it is all about you. You re in charge of you: of your decisions and of your life. Second, become aware: aware of you, your behaviour, your thoughts, your talents, your beliefs and your home to activate your life. Next, is for you to choose what you want and decide to...

These anthologized columns and periodicals revolve around the authors cultural intake between the autumn of 2013 and the summer of 2014.

Amongst the fifty-plus recent films reviewed here are Lars von Trier s Nymphomaniac and Abdellatif Kechiche s La Vie d'Adèle (a.k.a. Blue is the Warmest Color), whose unflinching sex scenes polarized audiences and critics alike; and Noah, Darren Aronofsky s cinematic adaptation of Genesis, in which nudists Adam and Eve are shunned from the Garden of Eden ...