@commandelicious @Surasanji @Jamest Pfft, digging holes and letting water flow through - easy!

"HEY LET'S JUST LIVE BELOW SEA LEVEL!" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlands#/media/File:The_Netherlands_compared_to_sealevel.png

"OH BTW WE SHOULD CREATE THIS LAND HERE IN THIS SEA. ALSO, LET'S MAKE IT FRESH WATER" - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland

@pkok @Surasanji @Jamest

Flevoland is amazing! These damn pumps are working for nearly a hundret years.
Also the planned cities on the polders are just plain great.
@freemo Visit Lelystad, Almere or Dronten and take pictures for us, I forgot and I only have been there at night :D

@commandelicious @Surasanji @Jamest @freemo More amazing are the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in Flevoland that has been "rewilded". Note that it hasn't ever been land before, but now it attracts even white-tailed eagles.

Such typical Dutch birds *cough*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oostvaardersplassen

@commandelicious @Surasanji @Jamest @freemo And typical non-Flevolander Dutch advice would be: don't visit Almere/Lelystad. It's ugly af. Almere even won the Ugliest Place of the Netherlands election in 2008.

Dutch news article: https://www.trouw.nl/home/almere-verkozen-tot-lelijkste-plek-van-nederland~a94a947c/

@pkok @Surasanji @Jamest @freemo
Ok, I step back from beautiful because Zwolle is really my favourite dutch city I've seen, but the city planing is just much better on the dutch side of the border. Here it's just horrible.

@commandelicious @Surasanji @Jamest @freemo Can't say much about .de's cityscaping, but we have some pearls, also from ye olde days. Take a look at the stronghold of Naarden:

@commandelicious Zwolle looked nice, didnt spend anytime there though, just passed through. I should go soon.

@pkok @Surasanji @Jamest