The SummerSchool 2022 will be a presser cooker of one week. Due to the corona virus, the GLR SummerSchool hasn’t been possible for two years. We are very happy. For this year, we made an app with all the information for the participants. Scan this QR code and download the webapp onto your homescreen of…
Check out the full program now!
The Program 2022 is ready! View the full program via this link. The program might change every day! Always check the latest version. If you have any questions related to the program, feel free to contact Sjoerd Wanrooij via wanrooij@glr.nl.
Are you ready?
Monday, July 11th we will start the GLRSummerSchool — Edition 2022! Thirty selected GLR students, 14 students from our partnerschool in St.Gallen, Switzerland and 16 students from our partnerschool in Bern, Switzerland, will join the GLRSummerSchool? Five teachers from the GLR and two teachers from the partnerschools in Switzerland, do their best to organize one…
Cycling for the braves!
What a good weather we had in 2017, 2018 and 2019. No rain, no wind, just cycling through the countryside on our way to the windmills of Kinderdijk. But in 2020 it was raining cats and dogs. Or Cows? Will we have have good weather during the 2020 SummerSchool cycling day!? This time no sneaky…
To the movies!
The Hundred-Foot Journey In 2022, we watched the movie about a battle in a French village between two restaurants that are directly across the street from each other: a new Indian restaurant owned by an Indian emigrant family and an established French restaurant with a Michelin star owned by a French woman. Of course with…
Why always Amsterdam?
During the first Thursday, we will visit Delft. This is such a wonderful city. Amsterdam has the name but Delft is smaller, cheaper, not that busy and more original. A good reason to visit Delft. If you want to learn more about Delft, go to: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft Delft is a typically Dutch city with old streets…
Fish, more raw fish
And in 2018, the winner was; Perla! Multiculti food. We ate the typical Dutch fresh haring. Most participants behaved like they were poisoned. A free drink for the one who ate a haring didn’t make a differents but Perla had no problems and enjoyed the haring. Good girl, if you don’t try you will never…
May I have your order, please?
Rotterdam has 173 different nationalities. All these people bring their own culture and cuisine. Do you have any idea why Rotterdam has so many different nationalities? Rotterdam used to be the biggest harbour of the world for quite some time. It is only recently that Shanghai became the biggest harbour of the world. The harbour of Rotterdam has always…
A brief but complicated Dutch history lesson
Who ever thinks about Holland thinks of tulips, windmills, cheese, our tolerant drugs policy and loads of water, but wait a second… Is Holland even the correct name? Youtuber CGP Grey made this video which explains it all. Make sure to do your homework properly before visiting us. 😉