There was once a Frenchman, who was learning Dutch. He didn’t think it was easy. He didn’t think he was very good at it, either. And he certainly didn’t think that it was fun, or at least not as fun as visiting the Dutch cheese shops – French people do call the Netherlands the second […]
I don’t know about you but I am quite done getting my heart broken every morning, for the best part of the last year. Getting up, sipping coffee on the couch while browsing through the news is supposed to be a relaxing start to my day, like it always was, but lately it has just […]
As an expat moving to a new country, learning the local language or at least some notions of it usually is one of the first concerns – right after having sorted out the important stuff actually essential to life, such as finding accommodation or identifying which shops sell good cheese and wine, of course. Newcomers […]
Hey you! Are you, like me, feeling the wanderlust growing as days pass by? Have you, too, reached that uncomfortable point, where you really need to get out and about for some kind of adventure, even if just for an afternoon, but don’t quite fancy catching a nasty virus? Read this, I found the solution!
Do you remember those golden days, when buying a house didn’t require you to sell an arm, two kidneys, your soul and your first-born child? Yeah, us neither. Due to steady immigration, limited space for new builds, banks’ speculative behaviours and government inaction over the past few decades, houses in the Netherlands are now more […]