13 Best Places to See Tulips in The Netherlands

13 Best Places to See Tulips in The Netherlands

The waiting is its own kind of ritual. Two weeks before we flew, my partner started checking a bloom tracker on her phone every morning the way other people check the weather, muttering about a cold snap that might push the color back, or a warm week that might bring it early and ruin our timing entirely. I did not understand yet what she already knew from a lifetime of springs in this country, that a tulip field is not a monument. It is a mood,…