Coaches have few to no trips abroad due to the pandemic. “The number of requests remains low,” Zeebra Tours owner Joop Vreugdenhil sighs. “Customers think that they’ve got to test themselves for corona at every lamp post in foreign countries. But our experience says otherwise. We rarely come across any problems with our coaches, not at the borders nor in hotels.”
DELFT – Creating jobs for longtime unemployed people, the goal of the Work Innovation Award presented this year to Werkse! [loose translation: have fun at work!] by Start Foundation and Cedris in the city of Delft. The award comes with a €1 million reward. Zorghub [Carehub] is the initiative that received this year’s award, championed by Kirsten Vreugdenhil.
SOEST – pop-up museum The Discovery has won the 2021 Soest Arts Award. The Dis-covery was the initiative of Anita Vreugdenhil from Arts Centre Idea, in close cooperation with Maria Bremmer and Petra Wieman of Lyvore, Idelette Sleurink of SWOS, and Leintje Hoogen-kamp of Kunstuitleen Gooi- en Eemland.
AMSTERDAM – Marathon toppers can’t wait for the first race on natural ice: ‘they feel as if they’re in love again’. Whether there is ice or not, and the ice floor may have been ruined by a thick layer of snow, the marathon men are eager to show their tricks. We are waiting for the green light from the government, but the knives are being sharpened literally and figuratively for the first game on natural ice. Corona robbery, of course.
