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This is the ideal time to see tulips blooming in the country that has nurtured them for centuries.  CONOR POWERfound it a calming experience

COMING FROM a green, lumpy, damp land such as ours, and observing that a lot of Dutch people choose to leave their country and live here instead, I imagined that the Netherlands was a dull, featureless country whose inhabitants were cranky from lack of space.