During the month of April is the city-wide Tulip Festival, when the parks and green spaces within the city are bedazzled with the colourful bulbs. In the summer season, the city becomes sticky and extremely popular, and most residents flee to the beaches in the south as quickly as they can, but the streets are alive all night when the air cools off slightly. On our first night, we explored the resort grounds, which had been big but not so sprawling that reaching the opposite end demanded a super-long stroll. We caught up over sundown; cotton-candy clouds mirrored within the …