I have it, and I’m pretty sure it’s contagious because my husband appears to have caught it too. Don’t worry, we’re not sick. Well, not really… Do you remember four years ago when I watched my first World Cup match? True to my word I made a point of following the the World Cup from [...]
The above video was taken this evening just after 8pm. It’s our Remembrance Day (Dodenherdenking) in the Netherlands today and during a 2 minute silence at Dam Square in Amsterdam panic broke out. There are a number of stories in regards to what started it all, someone screaming, becoming unwell and knocking a barrier over, [...]
A few weeks ago my friend Penny and I went to see The Full Monty Musical in Roosendaal. I had bought her a ticket as a Christmas present and we’d both really been looking forward to it. A girl’s night out, naked men, honestly… what more could we ask for? Ok, maybe some homemade hot [...]
A while back I blogged about some funny Dutch TV ads, and every time I’ve seen the above ad I’ve meant to put it on here as well but kept forgetting. I just saw this at 7pm on a Sunday evening while sitting and watching some TV after dinner. Even after living here almost 10 [...]
OK, about 42,000 people have tagged me on Facebook to do this ‘25 things’ meme, so I’m gonna do it here and not tag anyone. If you read this and want to do it yourself, by all means – meme your little heart out. Since I’ve been in winter hibernation and feeling a little Fuck [...]
shoppers and crystal tree by wvs Every day I visit the website daily dose of imagery because I have serious photo envy, and because I like to torture myself by looking at photos of Toronto and getting homesick. Yesterday he posted this photo of one of the big shopping centers in downtown Toronto at x-mas. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Correr Es Mi Destino, fellow expat Zhu wrote about Stuff Canadians Like. She is sort of the opposite of me, having gone from Europe to Canada and having to get used to my country’s customs and weird ways. I have to admit, I like pretty much everything she listed. It made me think of [...]
Them meaning, the Dutchies. I know, I know… I didn’t think it would ever happened either and yes, I did check to see if monkeys are flying out of my arse. I can’t help it though, even without trying I’m finding things I really love about this place. One of the most recent things is [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
