Utrecht

• was a Roman outpost
• on a river
• st Martin, he cut his coat in half, that's where the coat of arms comes from
• Pope Adrian, only Dutch pope
• didn't last long, was not popular, tried to paint the Sistine chapel white
• Holland has been invaded by the Vikings, the Spanish and the French (napoleon)
• Pope Adrian taught Charles 5
• domtower is 112m, no building allowed to be taller
• there's a light walk that runs through the city
• real estate in Utrecht a good idea…. it's above sea level.
• Parts of Rotterdam are 6m below
• surnames and street names only arrived with Napoleonic invasion