Not sure if they stretch canvas. I know they do matting and that's not cheap. I agree with the other guy you're better off stretching your own canvas at a lower cost. I'm from Chicago so I know what expensive prices are like. Art stores like to rip artists off!

Art supplies have been steadily climbing in price especially paints but even drawing paper and watercolors have become very expensive. There was a large outlet called Utrecht Linens but they sell everything not just linen canvas anymore and they were always cheaper than the average.

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To get the tickets from Rotterdam to Zwolle you could take the train. WIth a bus its a long distance and you have to chance buses a lot. check the site of the NS to find all about prices and how to travel. In the Netherlands we use an OV chip card to travel on public transport. http://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/?taal=en But you can still buy a train ticket. Also most of the bus companies are still selling tickets for persons who don't want to buy a train ticket. http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home Another option is to book a long distance bus from Paris to a city close to Zwolle. I know they go to Utrecht and to Eindhoven. At Utrecht they drop you at the train station, so that might be a good option. The price depends of the date you choose. A train ticket from Utrecht to Zwolle will coast € 14,20 For example: http://www.eurolines.com/en/ A map of the Netherlands you can find on http://maps.google.nl/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a&q=kaart+nederland&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47c609c3db87e4bb:0xb3a175ceffbd0a9f,Nederland&gl=nl&sa=X&ei=POYLUYDgDubH0QX404DgCQ&ved=0CC8Q8gEwAA Or try to get a ride http://www.hitchhikers.org/index.cgi?lang=en

Utrecht is Utrecht. Meaning it is neither the best (like Golden or M. Graham) nor the poorest quality on the market (like Winsor & Newton's Galeria or Duro). Utrecht is about in the middle along with Daler-Rowney's Cryla brand and Liquitex's Heavy Body paints and Blick's Art Store brand. Are their paints student quality or artist quality? To me that's personally a toss-up. But then again, no artist I know uses them, so maybe they are. The only thing I ever buy from the Utrecht store on Santa Monica is their stretcher bars, which are a lot cheaper than Blick's from down the street. And Utrecht's Cadmium Red Hue is not a true cadmium. The name is misleading because 'Hue' means 'resembling the color/effects of.' Are their cadmium acrylic paints toxic? Not according to the safety restrictions placed on their paints sold in the state of California as long as they are used as intended.. If you don't smoke it or drink it or shoot up with it there aren't any real health concerns. EDIT: I did not say the Utrecht paint you have is or is not student grade or quality paint. I said I didn't know and don't know any fellow artists who use it. But you did not say whether it was their so-called Studio Series or so-called Professional Series paints. I would hope the 'Professional' grade was a better quality paint and would have to think the 'Studio' grade was their student level paint. EDIT: Despite what some art store clerk claims, I am now holding in my hand a 4oz. jar of M. Graham's 'Hooker's Green.' I turn it around to see on the back of the label the confirmation ASTM seal. Same thing with my 4oz. jar of 'Quinacridone Rose'. By the way, the remarkable thing about M. Graham acrylic paints is that they are, like Golden, pure paint. Unlike most of the other makers of acrylic artists paint who add filler ingredients to save money neither Golden or M. Graham do this. I would probably use M. Graham as often as Golden but not enough local art stores carry the brand.

1. I'm sure there's a bus service but really, the train is cheap and quick. 2. It's a lively student town with a load of cafes and restaurants next to an old canal which is meters below street level. Naarden is worth a visit, it's one of the few places where the old fortifications are still in tact. 3. In Utrecht there's plenty but the most common means of transportation is an old bike with locks costing more than the bike. 4. No, not really. 5. If you left it until now to find a place to live.. you're facing a challenge. Rent, 300-350 for a room with shared bathroom and kitchen. Bills, depends, a lot of utilities except telecommunications are often included in the rent. Food, depends, if you cook yourself or if you eat out. Going out, depends on how drunk you want to get, you can very easily spend 60 euros on a night out. 6. Extensive and varied, not many really big clubs though. 7. Anywhere between 25 degrees C and sunny in september to loads of rain from mid-october onwards and temperatures dropping down to just above freezing. 8. Contact the school, see what assistence they provide in housing. Utrecht is a student town with a permanent housing shortage.

If there's one in your area, go to Blick.

Christmas sales are normally after Xmas in the first week of January, which means a long wait. To be honest, you get 'special offers' all through the year. Both BCC and MediaMarkt have a 'price guarantee' on all products - so they will refund the difference if you find the same item elsewhere for a cheaper price. We just moved house and I looked around multiple places to change some electrical goods, and to be honest found these two the best ones with regard to price and also quality (decent brands - you don't want to pay money for it to break down the next week without a guarantee) They both have stores all through the Netherlands and BCC have a webshop as well so you can check the prices online. Here are the links including some other stores off the top of my head BCC Mainpage - http://www.bcc.nl/shop/index Link to laptop section -http://www.bcc.nl/shop/Notebooks_en_laptops.Computer/cat-YNEKq06DtDMAAAEUFiUI2MvR Special offer section - http://www.bcc.nl/shop/Aanbiedingen/cat-DOnAqAyh.ecAAAEVRMwKbPYr?ShowAllProducts=YES Locations of stores - http://www.bcc.nl/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/bcc-webshop-Site/nl_NL/-/EUR/ViewStores-Dispatch Mediamarkt Main page - http://www.mediamarkt.nl/ Location of stores - http://www.mediamarkt.nl/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/MediaNLStoreSelection?storeId=17651&catalogId=17101&langId=-11 Current offers - click the location (Utrecht) where you want to shop to see the specific store offers Dynabyte - similar kind of shop https://www.dynabyte.nl/ Current offers & online prices on laptops https://www.dynabyte.nl/pc_notebooks Bobshop - online only shop which delivers and the prices are usually cheaper compared with in-store one (note, we were able to use the Bobshop prices and negotiate the same prices at BCC as Bobshop do have one physical store, so you can also try this) - http://www.bobshop.nl/nl/computers/c412

You can check prices or book online on the website of the German train company DB. Just enter Duesseldorf, otherwise to get a strange query. Hbf stands for central station. If you fly into Dusseldorf and want to continue by train enter Duesseldorf Flughafen for checking connections. In this case you will need to take the skytrain [suspension railway] to the airport railway station, and have a stopover at Duisburg. Source(s): http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en ..