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Least Favorite Places - Huisartsenpost
If I were to make a list of my least favorite places to be here in the Netherlands, it would be here. The waiting room at our local huisartsenpost (kind of like outpatients, where you go outside of office hours, only … different). I took this photo with my mobile while sitting there being miserable [...]
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The Corpus Experience
In an earlier post I mentioned that while my parents were here we were going to Corpus, which I was pretty excited about. I’d first seen info on this place months ago and was keen to take my parents there because I thought it’d be really cool.
When you look at their website it gives [...]
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Happy Birthday Grietje!
Today the oldest inhabitant of the Netherlands is celebrating her 111th birthday.
Grietje Jansen-Anken lived alone until she was 92 years of age, and has been living in a care home in Middleburg since. Reports say that she is still in perfect mental health.
She apparently shuns the media at every turn, not wanting to [...]
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An Expat Meme
1. HDR Kinderdijk, 2. Winterdish-Boerenkoolstampot, 3. Heláás, 4. Famke Janssen, 5. Stroopwafel innards, 6. Marco Borsato Nachtmis, 7. Oliebollen in Rotterdam continued, 8. "I, Piórko, like Cheese!", 9. hard rain, 10. i can make stroopwafels, 11. St. Nicolas has arrived…, 12. Autumn Colors
Ok I’ve seen these mosiac meme’s around but the gal over at A [...]
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Stick a Fork in Me
You know that saying ‘Stick a fork in me, because I’m done’? Yeah, that was me yesterday afternoon.
We went to a BBQ at a friend’s place in Beneden Leeuwen, which is about an hours drive from here. It was a gathering of an expat group that I belong to online. The same one that we [...]
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Rotterdam Without War
When I was out with my friend Penny the other day we were talking about Rotterdam and how it’s changed because of World War II, and it got me to thinking about how different things might be here had it all never happened.
You see, during the war, the Nazis bombed the city center to bits. [...]
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Typisch Nederlands!
I’m ripping this post off from A Touch of Dutch where she also posted this video today (linked same video for Facebook notes cuz the stupid thing doesn’t import them properly). It’s a video with just music and photos showing typisch Nederlands (Typical Dutch). It shows what the Netherlands is mostly made up of and [...]
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Oranje Everywhere
One thing you can never say about the Dutch is that they aren’t patriotic. Especially when it comes to football! This past weekend Holland lost to Russia and are out of the semi finals.
It sucks, but the Dutch milked the short ride for all it was worth. Everywhere you looked was ORANJE (orange), which is [...]
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Dutch Kids Most Happy
Apparently Dutch kids are the happiest in the western world. From DutchNews.NL:
Dutch children are the happiest in the western world, according to a new World Health Organisation survey of 41 European and North American countries, quoted in Wednesday’s Volkskrant.
Last year, a Unicef report also found that Dutch teenagers were the happiest in the developed world.
The [...]
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