Graham Reid has his breath taken away by a discreet museum in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses offers an eclectic collection of the beautiful, the historic, and the just plain crazy.

For further information see tassenmuseum.nl.

Valkenburg, in the southwest of the Netherlands, boasts a unique 10km underground cycle path - making it the only public subterranean bike trail in Europe.

A subterranean tour of Valkenburg is too close for comfort, writes Kevin Pilley.

This working museum, just an hour's train trip from Amsterdam, has recreated the sort of community that would have been present in the region during the period of 1850-1930... before the Zuiderzee was cut off from the North Sea and transformed into an inland sea.

A 16-year-old girl set to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo has torn down the Dutch flag...

Located on the Unesco-protected Keizersgracht, The Dylan hotel conceals its virtues behind a 17th-century facade.

Women who eat low-fat yoghurt while pregnant increase their chances of having children who develop asthma and hay fever, a study has found.

Tuition fees at New Zealand universities are among the highest in the world, according to a new report. New Zealand had the seventh-most expensive tuition fees for universities, with entrants paying more than $3600 a year.

BMX riders Marc Willers and Sarah Walker claimed a double success for New Zealand at the Supercross World Cup.

While in Amsterdam I had a meeting with TomTom, the Dutch navigation company that has an app out for iPhone.

Young Timaru rider Shane Archbold produced a stunning ride in the final time trial to claim a silver medal at the world track cycling championships.