Discovering Otrobanda, Curacao
This is another post about the Breedestraat in Otrobanda. Otrobanda means ‘the other side’ and Breedestraat translates to Broadway in English. You will probably recognize these Dutch roots in New York too. New York used to be called New Amsterdam before the Dutch traded it for Surinam with the English. And of course New York has it's Breedestraat too, now called Broadway. Surinam has been a Dutch colony since that time till the eighties. Surinam was very important during Worl