Weekender: Leeuwarden
Winner: Best Print Article, Holland Press Awards 2019 Friesland isn't like the rest of the Netherlands. The North Sea has shaped this province's landscape and history, and the area still retains a strong identity - fiercely independent, friendly, free-thinking and welcoming. As far back as 1300, the Frisians created a free state, away from centralised authority with their own language, laws, and traditions.