june-2012

Cover photo by Cody Thornton
Holland Herald
JUNE 2012 YOUR COPY TO KEEP
THE
go!
ISSUE
15 The go! fi les
Spinning dinners, city streets, and
wrestling in dresses
24 Facts & fi gures
Go! by numbers, factoids and tiny
nuggets of info
38 Psychology
How do some athletes always seem
to win? A look behind the myths of
sports psychology
47 Travel tale
A writer recalls his early 1990s
journey to pen the fi rst guidebook
to the newly reunifi ed Germany
Zambia
54
A canoe safari down the Lower
Zambezi brings you closer to the
wildlife than you might imagine
42
Photo series
A series of Dutch Olympic hopefuls in
unusual settings by photographer
Bastiaan Heus
CONTENTS
The go! issue
This month’s go-getting cover image comes from reader Cody Thornton,
winner of the Holland Herald photo competition (see p81), and was shot
in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The photo (which can be seen in full in the July issue)
captures the excitement of travel and the urge so many of us have to simply
go — to explore and see what happens. The diver in this shot made
a safe, if inelegant splashdown. Also on the go are the poppetjes (little
dolls) pictured above from the miniature city Madurodam (see p65) in The
Hague. To celebrate the park’s recent refurbishment, we have sent them on
a trip, and they can be seen on their travels throughout the magazine.
London
30
Hackney, host to the Olympics, is
London’s wild east, full of hidden
greenery and creative excess
50
Coral Triangle
The work of World Wide Fund for
Nature to protect south-east Asia’s
Coral Triangle
08
65
69
81
Frontlines
Little bits of
everything
Updates
What’s on in
The Netherlands
Touchdowns
The best
city guides
Photo
competition
Your chance
to inspire us
and win
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