It is said that the memories that you share with your loved pet are often amid the most happiest and valuable memories. It is an exceptional attachment of friendship that can never quite be replaced. Your loved pet is known to be a true friend, with unquestioning faithfulness and love. There are a number of people who want to preserve these memories and love forever by getting their loved pet’s portrait made or designed. It is a pet attachment that makes a pet portrait an ideal, innovative and unique painting as well as a gift for any occurrence or possibly a gift to love to your self.

Pet portrait identifies your love towards animal

Numbers are mind boggling, but there are hundreds and thousands of people, who want pet portrait either for their home or gift someone that may be a friend, relative and client. Amid pet portraits, dogs’ as well as cats’ portraits are more preferred by people if compared to others. But other pet portraits including birds, horse, monkey, pig, deer and a lot more are also preferred.

In fact, it is considered that if the portrait of your favourite pet is taken up by a competent artist, then it will stand an excellent chance of your popularity amid your friends and relatives. Apart from it, a beautiful pet portrait in your drawing room is not only helpful to symbolize your status, but it also shows your love towards animals.

Where to find a professional artist for a quality pet portrait?

Everyone likes the portrait that should be animated and durable and make a good impression upon visitors. Put simply, when the specialty and priority is pet portrait, it is not as simple as saying, you need a skilled artist and finding the artist today is not a hard work. Just search over the internet and you will find a number of online vendors that arrange artists. You only have to place your order online for a painting or drawing at any selected site. After completing the portrait, your selected online artist e-mails you a specimen portrait for approval and once he/she receives your approval, your desired portrait is send to your address. Added benefit of finding online artists is that they offer you services at reasonable prices in comparison to others. Moreover, you will also get flexible mode for payment via, Paypal, cheque and credit card.

As tattoos become more popular these days, more and more people are getting tattoos or talking about getting one. This is great for the industry and even better for those who would like to get involved in the tattoo industry. But don’t think that becoming a professional tattoo artist is easy. There really isn’t any such thing as easy money by becoming a tattoo artist.

Many tattoo artist aspirants believe that purchasing a D.I.Y. tattoo kit from the advertisements of tattoo magazines is the starting point towards becoming a successful tattoo artist. Be aware that this equipment is of inferior quality and lacks precision. What next? Find a person to practice. And the result is dozens and dozens of people with awful tattoos and terrible scars and who will put you in their hate list forever. Furthermore, a true artist will be reluctant to take you under his wings because he is going to have a headache trying to guide you back on the right path.

The alternative is to pay a fee to a tattoo artist or shop to teach you the trade. So what is the type of fee to pay? As far as I know there are no reputable artists teaching you all he know for a fee. A true artist is not a true blooded businessman. If an artist is willing to teach you for a small fee, then consider this. Is he willing to part with all he knows for what you are paying? In one Asian country, the majority of tattoo shop websites advertise tattoo courses for a very small fee. But the problem is that after completing the course, you will have to come back for one refresher course then another and another. And I understand that after completion several such courses, you will not be able to tattoo properly. So the chances are you will be paying good money to some businessman who is just trying to make a fast buck.

So then, how to become a successful tattoo artist? For starters, you’ll need talent. You will never make it in the tattoo industry by tracing or stenciling, you will need to be able to draw great designs. To even get considered as a tattoo artist, a portfolio is needed. This will require you to draw lots of great designs to build up a portfolio. Your portfolio is proof that you have the skills that are needed to succeed in the industry. Without a portfolio, don’t even bother. I remember one South American guy asking me to train him to become a tattoo artist. And he said money is no problem. I told him that money is not an issue, just draw me a colored dragon and then a reaper. He came back after one week, and said he couldn’t draw a proper dragon or reaper. So end of story.

Once you have a portfolio to showcase your talents, you will need a mentor, someone who is willing to teach you the trade and share their secrets with you. Now this is the tricky thing, tattoo artists don’t like giving away their secrets. Simple reason is because many of them have been let down by their apprentices. Just take the case of my mentor. He has taken more than 20 people under his wings (all without any fee), but today only 3 of his graduates still “recognise” him as mentor. What happened to the rest? They have their own shops, but tell their customers that they can do the same quality of work as their mentor (also my mentor), but their prices are cheaper. So you know how much it hurts to be treated like my mentor? If you do find someone good, a real professional who is willing to tell you anything at all about the industry, then be grateful.

To train as a tattoo artist, you will need proper, high-quality equipment such as a precision tattoo machine, power supplies, shading equipment, needles, medical equipment and sanitation supplies. You will also need to know about cleanliness and what can and can’t be reused, as well as how to clean and sterilize your equipment. The popular professional tattoo artists are successful for a number of reasons, but mainly because they are clean and very talented.

You can succeed in the tattoo industry, but you will need to be talented, self-driven and dedicated. If you want to make lots of money as a tattoo artist, you are wasting your time. Become a tattoo artist because you love the art and love to create breath-taking pieces of body art. Be prepared to work for free and, most of all, if you get someone to stop and share a secret or two with you, take their advice. You will definitely need it.

What you do is you apprentice and work for a tattoo artist for very little pay. You do this so that he/she can take you under his/her wing and show you how to take your artistic skill and transfer it to the art that is called tattooing. If the master you’re apprenticing for is good, then along the way you’ll also learn about how to run a shop, what it takes to succeed, and what NOT to do…

How long does it take? Well…that depends on how fast you pick it up and how good your master is. It’s not uncommon for tattoo artists to apprentice for more than one artist in their careers…and each apprenticeship can last for several years.

This is not to discourage you…but the guys on Miami Ink didn’t just “decide” to become rock star tattoo artists one day. They scraped just to get by for many years before they became successful…and, chances are, you’ll have to, too.

Landscape paintings are a very popular form of art. By learning more about them, you could help make yourself love and appreciate them even more.

When you are searching for prints or posters to add to your walls, you will very often find several paintings that are completed by a landscape artist. Originals from the master painters are probably not in your price range, but a print or reproduction is probably more in your budget. This makes the landscapes by such artists as Monet, Constable, and Pissarro very accessible to all kinds of people.

Amateur artists most often choose landscapes for their first works. This may be due to the lack of studio space and the ease in which it is possible to find a subject out in the natural world. Most landscape artists before the time of Impressionism, painted inside their home or studio, working by memory or from drawings. Monet and Renoir took their work outside and were considered weird because they did so.

Landscape painting is done in many countries. Landscapes are particular predominant in Japan, Holland, the United States, France, and Britain. European landscape artists were influenced by two Japanese artists during the 19th century. Hokusai and Hiroshige painted images of mountain ranges, forests, and the ocean using bright colors. From the twentieth century forward, other forms of art began to occupy the time and effort of artists and critics. Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Cubism became much more popular. This has made landscape painting somewhat unfashionable.

Most of the general public still loves purchasing and looking at landscapes. They feel very connected to the subject and this is even more evident when it reminds them of an area in their past. A portrait or still life will not evoke the same kind of response in most cases. You will find in looking at landscape paintings that some painters paint the same area. Paul Cezanne was a big example of this, due to the fact that he painted the same mountain range around eight times. The Montagne Sainte Victoire, near his home in France, became one of his favorite subjects. He enjoyed painting it in different seasons and different weather conditions.

Two of the first European landscape artists to paint the ocean were Rembrandt and Vermeer, both Dutch painters. Some artists enjoy painting sky and water as their recurring themes. JMW Turner, and English artists, enjoyed painting seas and stormy skies, but his paintings later turned to a more abstract painting of blurring the sea and the skies together. Monet perfected his water technique by sitting in a rowboat on the water. This helped him to get as close as possible to his subject. Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth are well-known American landscape artists who are well known for their ability to capture light on the water.

There are few people in the world who understand what it feels like to have a pet in the family who is so loved, and so appreciated by the family that owners want to do everything in their power to somehow express to their pet how much they love them.

Now, it’s debatable whether pets have a sense of what it means to love or be loved – however anyone who has lived with and fell in love with an animal knows that animals certainly do feel and express love in different ways. And that love is often deeply meaningful and moving for pet lovers. This article will help those pet owners show their pet how much they are loved, with several unique and fresh ideas to completely pamper your pet more than they’ve ever been pampered before.

Pet Portraits



There are few more meaningful and heartfelt ways to express your love for your pet than having a painted portrait made of them. Pet portraits can be especially meaningful because when you see a pet portrait on the wall, it is a statement that this animal isn’t just “another animal”, but it shows that your pet is a loved and cherished member of the family. You can find the best style of pet portraits from Nikky Hughes of Los Angeles. The great thing about these pet portraits is that they can be done from a photograph – so it is possible to purchase artwork like this from skilled artists like Nikky regardless of distance.

Nikky was classically trained at the Mission Renaissance art school. Her art is soft and romantic – with a dreamy quality to them. They are lifelike and impressive representations of everything that makes a pet beautiful in the eyes of its owner. Nikky’s art reflects an appreciation and love of animals – and that depth of feeling will come across clearly when you place the portrait of your pet on the wall along with other family portraits.

The aspect of her paintings that truly make Nikky’s art stand out from the crowd is the setting in which she places the animals. The surroundings are sometimes whimsical, other times wonderfully surreal, but always intriguing. Nikky’s art represents the work of a rising artist, so purchasing one of these portraits would be an excellent investment, and a wonderful addition to your home décor.

Charms and Pendants



There are very few more noticeable ways to spoil your pet rotten, than to buy them “pet jewelry”. While most people think of Paris Hilton and her jeweled pet, or little dog-show poodles wearing crystal collars – there is actually a mainstream market for putting a little bit of “bling-bling” on your dog.

Companies such as petcomfort.com offer reasonably priced necklaces, charms and other jewelry made specifically for animals. These include crystal necklaces, pearl jewelry, and collar charms of all varieties. If you want your pet to get noticed – dress them up with one of these. People will be wondering if you are royalty.

Buy Your Pet a Date



Do you think only people use social networking websites to find a date? Well think again – pets get lonely too. That desire for companionship extends beyond the simple biological function of procreation. Even animals that have been neutered still get a great deal of enjoyment and comfort from the presence of another animal.

This is why one of the greatest ways to pamper your pet is to find them a date. Websites abound, such as Petsdating.com, which will help you to find your pate a date from your local area. If you think your pet won’t appreciate a date – show him a picture or two from the website and see his reaction!

Spoil-Your-Pet Pet Sitting



Think only people find relaxation at a resort? Pets get stressed too…and sometimes the best solution after going through a very stressful time in a household is for you to get away for a while. Whether you would enjoy going to a resort or just an overnight outing somewhere – do your pet a favor and treat them to a Pet Resort.

A pet resort is a kennel service that takes caring for animals to the next level. Pets are treated like royalty with “condo” accommodations that sometimes can include a private room and miniature bed, impressive outdoor play areas, gourmet food, and sometimes even in-room television!

Getting away for a weekend can relieve a great deal of stress in your life – so don’t forget that your pet can feel stressed too. Treating your pet to a pet resort can result in a more calm and well-behaved pet when you return home after your vacation.

Letters of Spirit

Mr. Vincent Van Gogh

Life Time Unsung

Too Late Mansions

Never Mind

Dear Vincent:

You must be wondering why am I writing to you. Probably the only person who has ever written to you, in the past, has been your brother Theo.

Anyhow, one must be open to the ever changing world. hope you are doing fine ! What is the score ? Do you still paint a canvas a day…or have you stopped counting !

You may have forgotten the Belgian Coal mines.. but I still cant forget those gray mornings and charcoal Potato Eaters… Or were they Potato Growers !

Life is quite dull….except an occasional auction at the Sotheby’s.

Do you know that money has lost its value since you left the scene ? People are literally throwing it away…at Art ! Yours included !

Now don’t feel sad if you had been going food less for days… At least now you HANG around in some of the richest art galleries of the world !!!

How do you feel…after all this success ? Hope it wont go into your head !

I was never aware that you too had a strong business head on your shoulders ! Only the other day I found your ‘sunflowers’ in a commercial advertisement. It seems you must have made a fat sum for this tie-up !

I cant imagine that you shall change this way !

Love to asylum doctor .

Impressionistically yours,

WET PAINT

….many more such letters to real/imaginary persons…in PEGOMAG

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Letters of Spirit

Mr. Vincent Van Gogh

Life Time Unsung

Too Late Mansions

Never Mind

Dear Vincent:

You must be wondering why am I writing to you. Probably the only person who has ever written to you, in the past, has been your brother Theo.

Anyhow, one must be open to the ever changing world. hope you are doing fine ! What is the score ? Do you still paint a canvas a day…or have you stopped counting !

You may have forgotten the Belgian Coal mines.. but I still cant forget those gray mornings and charcoal Potato Eaters… Or were they Potato Growers !

Life is quite dull….except an occasional auction at the Sotheby’s.

Do you know that money has lost its value since you left the scene ? People are literally throwing it away…at Art ! Yours included !

Now don’t feel sad if you had been going food less for days… At least now you HANG around in some of the richest art galleries of the world !!!

How do you feel…after all this success ? Hope it wont go into your head !

I was never aware that you too had a strong business head on your shoulders ! Only the other day I found your ‘sunflowers’ in a commercial advertisement. It seems you must have made a fat sum for this tie-up !

I cant imagine that you shall change this way !

Love to asylum doctor .

Impressionistically yours,

WET PAINT

….many more such letters to real/imaginary persons…in PEGOMAG

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http://www.pegomag.com

Family portrait paintings –A perfect gift

Family portrait paintings forms the perfectgift for special persons on their special occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, etc. Family portraits not only presents the talent of an artistbut also presents the knot of love and affection which keeps the entire family tied together.

Family portrait paintingsare generally made on the special occasions like weddings and festivals, i.e. when the entire family gets together for celebrations. If you are also planning for a family get together and desire to get a family portrait done, there are certain things you need to consider.

Family portrait paintings can be made on different textures. You need to decide on the type of texture, according to their preferences. You can get your family portrait transformed into an oil painting also. It will give your family portrait a classical and traditional look.

Next, you need to decide upon the best time to get the family portrait paintings done. The best time is generally during festivals and other occasions when the entire family gather for celebrations. You can also get a missing member added to your family portrait by simply providing a photograph of the person to the artist.

Family portrait paintings capture few precious moments which are spent together by a family. Therefore it is an invaluable investment and a precious gift to keep the remembering of a special occasion.

In the past, when photography was not popular, oil paintingwas one of the most popular means for family portraits, used to preserve images of their near and dear ones for future generations.

Oil painting portraitswere not only popular because it was used for making personal images but also because it was used as a decorative medium to decorate homes and offices. Mona Lisa, made by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci long back in the early 1500s, is most probably the most famous oil painting portrait.

Oil Painting Portraits, which were made centuries back are so beautiful that they continue to amaze us even today. At present times, oil painting portraits have become affordable. Therefore, you can buy them to either gift it to someone or simply decorate your home and office with it. You can also get an oil painting portrait of your choice made by an artist. The artist will require a few weeks time to complete your portrait of oil painting and deliver it to you.

My dabble into landscape painting showed me how fun it can be to be creative.

When I was a small child, I would rise at the first sign of dawn. I would not sleep past six, even when my parents begged and pleaded with me to just sleep a little longer. After they came to the conclusion that my internal clock was on its own time schedule, they decided that I could go ahead and get up as long as I quietly watched television. This sounded good, but in reality, there was really nothing on at six on a Sunday morning. One morning, though, I came across a show with a strange French guy who was painting landscapes with oil paints.

I began watching this show, simply because it was a little more interesting than watching church programming or infomercials. Eventually, though, I began to find that I was enjoying watching this man paint his beautiful landscape paintings. His smooth voice and strokes would quickly create trees and streams, simply by moving his brush across the canvas. He made it look so simple and easy, so I thought that I could create some landscape paintings myself. My paintings would have to be in crayon, however, since that was the only art tool that I had access to.

Thus began my habit. Each Sunday morning, I would wake at six and begin watching the landscape painting show. I would try to replicate what he was painting on the screen, while sitting on our couch. My crayons and drawing paper created some attractive pictures, but there were nothing compared to the landscape painter’s work. I came to the conclusion that I needed oil paints to make my paintings as beautiful as his.

I could not buy oil paints myself, since I was only seven years old, and my parents wouldn’t purchase them for me either. That is when I decided that I would just have to be creative. The only place that I could think of where I could locate some painting tools was in my mom’s makeup case. I used an old box as my pallet and then used the creamy makeup to make my paint by mixing them together. I used lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, and anything else that I could find to create my palette of colors. A blush brush was my paintbrush, an eyelash separator my tool for shading effects, and construction paper was my canvas. I was ready to create my masterpiece.

As I am sure that you guessed, my landscape painting using makeup only lasted that one Sunday. After my mom saw the mess I had made of her makeup, I was told that I couldn’t paint anymore. This put an end to my idea of using food the next time to create my palette. After a while, I quit watching the French painter. It had become too difficult to simply watch him when I was unable to create my own masterpiece. That was my dabble into landscape painting.

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the land in Branchville, Connecticut, was too uneven and rocky for profitable farming, and the transportation routes between this small town and the state capital of Hartford or New York City were not yet adequate for daily commuting. But the landscape proved to be ideal for a group of artists who were distilling the influences of both European and American painters and developing a style that came to be known as American Impressionism. They were invited to this New England countryside by Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a gregarious man who achieved considerable success with his paintings and who befriended some of the greatest artists of his day.

In keeping with the spirit of camaraderie Weir established, American Artist invited ten artists to gather at the farm last September to paint the grounds and buildings that comprise Weir Farm, which was recently designated a National Historic Site. The artists painted together for two days and returned individually to complete their pictures. The resulting works are presented in this sixteen-page article and in the profiles on Peggy Root and Joan Griswold that follow. (G. Remak Ramsay, one of the artists who painted at the farm, was not able to complete a painting in time for this article because he was performing in a play on Broadway. His work will be featured in a future issue of the magazine.)

These ten artists were chosen for three reasons: First, they are comfortable painting outdoors; second, they have a strong interest in the history of American landscape painting; and third, like the Impressionists, they are painters of everyday life.

The artists whom Weir hosted at his farm around the turn of the century were coming to terms with the growing influence of the French Impressionists. When Weir first saw the work of Monet and Renoir in Paris in 1876, for example, he described the exhibition as “worse than the Chamber of Horrors.” But by 1891, Weir’s style–his use of broken outlines, loose and patchy brushwork, and thick application of oil color–owed so much to the Europeans that critics who saw his exhibitions labeled him an Impressionist.

Unlike the previous generation of Hudson River painters who searched for the most spectacular occurrences in nature, the American Impressionists concentrated on the effects of sunlight on uneventful stretches of land. They were more interested in meadows than canyons and would rather have spent an afternoon watching the glow of light in an apple orchard than join an expedition to South America.

SPERRY ANDREWS

Visitors who take advantage of the Thursday morning tours at Weir Farm are often given a personal tour of the grounds and studios by Sperry and Doris Andrews. They have a wealth of both statistical information and amusing anecdotes about the generations of artists who have lived and worked at the site. But there is just as much to enjoy in seeing and hearing about the art Sperry and Doris have created since they purchased the original Weir home in 1957. The house and studios are filled with prints, drawings, watercolors, and oils the two have created during their long and productive careers.

Sperry was particularly helpful to the magazine’s invited guests in directing them to the spots where Weir and his friends painted a hundred years earlier. He led members of the group along the overgrown path to the pond Weir had put in and through the fields surrounding the house inherited by Cora Weir Burlingham, one of Weir’s two daughters.

Sperry Andrews studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, where Weir had been an active member and served as president from 1915 to 1917. The academy owns portraits Weir painted of his friends Albert Pinkham Ryder, Childe Hassam, Olin Levi Warner, and Robert Minor. Weir also sat for portraits by fellow academy members Warner and John Singer Sargent.

Some of the artists who recently set their easels up along the wooded paths in Branchville are clearly working within the tradition begun by the French and American Impressionists. Their palette, brushwork, and choice of subject matter have certainly been influenced by Monet, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Twachtman, Weir, and others. If the artists had not been influenced by such work, the landscape around Weir Farm would have seemed dull and inappropriate for their paintings: It does not offer views of cascading waterfalls or snow-capped mountains, but, rather, it presents an intimate New England space, occupied by empty clotheslines, rust-red barns, and gnarled fruit trees.

WEIR FARM

Julian Alden Weir grew up in West Point, New York, where his father taught drawing at the military academy. He was planning to build a summer residence further north in Keene, New York, until an extraordinary opportunity presented itself in 1882. Erwin Davis, an art collector for whom Weir had made astute purchases in Europe, offered to sell the artist a farm in Branchville for the price of $10 and one painting. The farm–with its one hundred fifty acres of land and buildings–quickly became the focal point of Weir’s personal and professional life. Many historians believe he created his best paintings and prints out in the fields and in the small studio there.

The main house and grounds were inherited by Weir’s daughter Dorothy, who was a painter and the wife of sculptor Mahonri M. Young. Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, built a second, larger studio on the property in order to execute a monumental sculpture project commissioned by the state of Utah. In 1957, the homestead was purchased by Young’s friend and colleague Sperry Andrews, who, with his wife, Doris, still lives in the Weir house and uses both of the studios on the property.

The couple and Weir’s descendants undertook the long and tedious process of having the farm named an official National Historic Site (to be managed by the National Park Service); the federal government accepted it in 1990. They also established a private trust to support activities at the farm. It is the intention of all who are concerned with the project that Weir Farm be made available to artists for painting and exhibiting their work, and, toward that end, an artist-in-residence program is being developed there. Both Sperry Andrews and the 1992-1993 visiting artist, Gerard Doudera, joined the outing hosted by American Artist.

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Keeping interest in a painting is important. One of the best ways to do this in a landscape painting is to create distance. The first thing to remember is the farther away something is the less detail it will have. also it will be lighter in color than something closer.

Step 1: Mix the colors. the first colors you should mix are light or grey in color. Start with pure white with a small amount of black. be sure to use a small amount of black as it tends to overpower the white very easily. Now you have a choice to make. You can use this grey by itself or add some color to it. Remember grey is not only white and black but grey also has color. For a spring scene try adding some blue with a tint of green. Keep it on the bluish side. For summer scenes add more green. For fall scenes a plain grey or tan would be nice. Winter scenes can use a multitude of different colors. Blue, grey, violet to name a few.

Step 2: apply these colors to create either foothills or distant trees and shrubs. Remember not to add allot of detail. In fact the more out of focus the better. Now as you come closer in the painting the more color you can add.

Step 3: Another trick to create distance and to separate different plains is to take either pure white or the pure grey mixture on the brush and tap this at the base of the trees or foothills you created. This creates dew or mist. You can swirl this grey color at the base also to create the illusion of a low cloud like at the base of a mountain.

Remember distance in a painting can help keep it interesting and allows people to imagine.

Holland certainly has a reputation with travelers. Known for having a very liberal attitude on social issues such as prostitution and drugs, the reputation is not always deserved. Yes, marijuana and prostitution is legal, but there is so much more to the country. Many look at Amsterdam as Holland, but visitors know there is much more. If you desire to travel to Holland, also known as the Netherlands, don’t miss these attractions.

Amsterdam

Simply put, Amsterdam has something for everyone. The city is an incredibly beautiful collection of old world European architecture elegantly partitioned by canals. In truth, the city is built on roughly 90 small islands, although you can hardly tell. Transportation is best undertaken on foot or by bicycle. With a cool climate, you’ll barely break a sweat.

Contrary to popular opinion, Amsterdam is not just a city of liberal policies. Yes, coffee bars sell things other then just coffee. Yes, there are women in windows that are awfully friendly. Still, there is so much more to experience in the city.

Van Gogh Museum

The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh houses the world’s largest collection of the work of Vincent van Gogh. From his early work, the museum contains 700 artistic works and 850 letters. After moving to Paris in 1886, van Gogh entered an impressionist period, of which the museum contains a large collection. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the collection is the organization. The entire collection is arranged chronologically from the first to last work. As you walk, you can clearly see the evolution of this master’s skill.

Anne Frank House

Who hasn’t read the intense diary of Anne Frank? Hiding from the Nazis, she and her family lived in an annexed section of an apartment in Amsterdam for two years. In 1957, the house was donated to the Anne Frank Foundation and turned into a museum. A visit will send chills through your spine. The museum contains films, the annexed area and the original notes of Anne Frank. A must see for anyone traveling to Amsterdam.

Beyond Amsterdam

For those needing a break from Amsterdam, there is much to be seen in Holland. If you are looking for a color explosion, consider taking the bulb cycling tour out of Noordwijk. Windmills your thing? Head to the De Zaan district to see them in action. Prefer to spend a night in a castle? Try the Castle Hotel Engelenburg, which even lets you ruin a good walk by playing golf.

Travel to Holland and you won’t regret it. Whether you want to “investigate” the countries liberal policies or simply bike through fields of tulips, Holland will satisfy.