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    Keukenhof’s Juliana Grounds: The Orchids Were Inside

    by Bubbly September 19, 2026
    by Bubbly September 19, 2026 7 min read

    I came up from the lake still looking for the orchids. The Wilhelmina Pavilion had turned out to be a shop, somewhere to eat and the toilets, with no floral display in …

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    The Keukenhof Lake: What I Found Looking for the Orchids

    by Bubbly September 15, 2026
    by Bubbly September 15, 2026 8 min read

    I came out of the Willem-Alexander Pavilion with a vague piece of information and no map sense whatsoever. Somebody had mentioned an orchid exhibition. I had no idea where it was, so …

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    Not Everything Is a Lily: Keukenhof’s Willem-Alexander Pavilion

    by Bubbly September 6, 2026
    by Bubbly September 6, 2026 9 min read

    I walked into this building thinking I was looking at lilies. I walked out knowing I was not, and the correction came from a small white card on a plinth. That is …

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    Keukenhof in Half a Day, and Why That Was a Mistake

    by Bubbly August 29, 2026
    by Bubbly August 29, 2026 12 min read

    Every May I go to the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa. It is a fixture of my spring, and after enough visits I thought I had a reasonable idea of what a …

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