Ben Coates
@bencoates1
Author - THE INVENTION OF AMSTERDAM is out now! (https://amzn.to/2QJx3bh). Columnist @ADnl. Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory
A nice review in the TLS: “The Invention of Amsterdam…. captures Coates’s infectious enthusiasm for his adopted home… The author… is an effortlessly charming guide… and has an excellent eye for the fetching fact” the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
I’m looking forward to reading my copy of this!
A nice review in the TLS: “The Invention of Amsterdam…. captures Coates’s infectious enthusiasm for his adopted home… The author… is an effortlessly charming guide… and has an excellent eye for the fetching fact” the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
The Dutch–German border wasn’t always so invisible. Thomas Jefferson crossed it somewhere near here in 1788 and was amazed by the differences between two countries which he like many Americans had assumed were largely identical. ~Ben Coates Book: The Rhine
Still only €9.99 for the paperback on bol.com! bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-in…
The first review of my new book is in - from the Times Short but nice: “This travelogue mixed with history provides a vivid and interesting portrait of a complicated global city”
FLASHBACK: Here’s 46-year-old Donald Trump looking at a 10-year-old girl and saying, “I am going to be dating her in ten years.” 🤮
als parttime columnist voor een lokale krant reis ik alleen per privéjet
wel heel zwak , Coates. Zelf ben je geprivilegeerd en pak je dure vliegtuigen.
Nice photo! 🙏
“Amsterdam isn’t just a cyclist's paradise, it’s a pedestrian's one too. It feels designed for strolling, with a centre you can walk across in an hour, flat terrain, a simple layout, car-free streets and a bar on every corner. Two wheels are great, but two legs are just as good.”
Thoughts and prayers for all those people who voted for searches of every vehicle at the border and now find themselves in a holiday queue stretching from Germany to almost Utrecht 🙏 Don’t worry, the leopards will never eat YOUR face nos.nl/l/2575648
I like the way that in Gouda there is literally almost nowhere you can get a coffee at 8:45am, but you’ll have no problem buying stroopwafels at any time of day or night #priorities
You might think Dutch cuisine isn’t good as French or Italian but perhaps you didn’t know that in Tilburg the hottest new snack is a mix of chicken, beef, onion and egg, deep fried in the shape of a cock and balls #piemelsnack
If you liked Twitter a few years ago but now find X too full of spam, viral crap and toxic political dross, I recommend the alternative!
A reminder that although I still post on X sometimes, I do much more over on the place where the sky is not green. Same username, much less inane spam. Check it out!
sadly the Telegraaf seems to have accidentally run a headline which was written by Bill Clinton in 1986
