Eric de Kuyper near Nijmegen in Kranenburg in Germany, about from the Dutch border, as does the main character of de Kuyper's short story "De verkeerde krant," ("The Wrong Newspaper"). De Kuyper has said that he feels at home both in Belgium and the Netherlands to a certain degree, as well as somewhat of a stranger in each of the countries. De Kuyper's first novel ("Aan zee: taferelen uit de kinderjaren"; "By the Sea: Scenes from a Childhood") consists of a series of insightful snapshots of a small boy's life in post-World War II Brussels and family summer vacation at Ostend.Together, they conjure
Lucas Bols eponymous brand, going back in time to the very first products it made. Currently, it produces a line of 38 different flavors, sold in the new teardrop shaped bottle. These include: Also documented elsewhere, but not officially mentioned by Bols are blackberry liqueur and sour apple liqueur. "Note: Although fruit brandies are not strictly liqueurs, Bols classifies theirs as such, perhaps due to added sweeteners." Pisang Ambon is a banana and tropical fruit flavored liqueur. Galliano is a complex anise, vanilla and herbal liqueur first produced by Vaccari. It is also confusingly, a brand name for line of other liqueurs