Ok, so yesterday I wrote about a teacher who was canned from her job because she decided she didn’t want to shake hands with men anymore. Apparently, she made this decision for religious reasons and that didn’t really jive with the Dutch way of life.
Now today I read this article over at DutchNews.nl about a [...]
A recent article caught my eye about a teacher here in the Netherlands who faced losing her job because she decided, for religious reasons, that she didn’t want to shake hands with men anymore. Here is the article from DutchNews.nl:
A school in Utrecht was within its rights to sack a female teacher who refused to [...]
Well this is something I haven’t heard of happening since I’ve been living here.
Yesterday at approximately 2:25pm in the afternoon tram 23, heading in direction Holy smashed full speed into the back of tram 21, which was standing still at the time. The crash took place in Rotterdam West in the Vierambachtsstraat near Mathenesserplein in [...]
This morning a plane crashed near Schipol airport in Amsterdam. It’s still breaking news so there isn’t a lot of info out yet.
Here is what is known so far (from cnn.com):
(CNN) — A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam’s main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said.
Images from the scene of the [...]
You know, I’m not the most worldly person. I’ve traveled around a bit but I generally don’t keep up on the politics and news in other countries. Hell, I hardly pay attention to the news in my own country, so overall when it comes to current affairs I’m a giant ignoramus. Something had me confused [...]
From DutchNews.nl:
The police officer shot dead in Amstelveen on Wednesday night has been identified as 28-year-old Gabriëlle Cevat, news agency ANP said on Thursday. A 49-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Amsterdam police chief Bernard Welten said her station was extremely shocked by the death and sent his condolences to [...]
Yesterday Xander and I were driving home from town and as we were coming along towards the Erasmus Bridge I noticed this huge building… and for a second I thought, where the hell did that come from so quick!?
That’s when I realized that it was a ship at the cruise terminal. We get a lot [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve come to love the website www.Expatica.com because it makes me feel like my sometimes negative feelings towards live in the Netherlands aren’t completely without foundation. I just read another interesting article about a poll done on expats and their feelings about living in NL.
I appear to fit in among the 15% of [...]
Found this on one of my yahoo groups that was posted from www.Expatica.com
23 September 2005
AMSTERDAM — At least 77 percent of the mainly expat staff of international agencies in the Netherlands want to leave the country.
And more than half of the Dutch employees think their organisation should relocate to another country, according to a report [...]
I just saw this article I had to blog again immediately.
The is what the article says:
Call it rhino winter blues – a pair of rhinoceroses in a Dutch zoo are being given sunbed treatments to make up for the lack of sunlight during the cloudy winter months.
Rhinos Jennifer and Petra don’t like the gray Dutch [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
