“The best cheese shop in the whole country is just around the corner,” our host family said to us the other night. Oh sure, we thought, not really believing we could be so lucky and also wondering what could be better than Neal’s Yard in London. It turns out our hosts are right. De Kaasspeciaalzaak […] Read More »
Quit your job and hop on a bike. Just try saying that out loud. It can be a terrifying idea, the first time you consider it. But after a week of diligently writing and re-writing my CV in preparation for a return to the workforce, I’ve come to the conclusion that a big bike tour […] Read More »
We think it says something about the Dutch and their obsession with bikes that today we went to the post office to mail some Thank You cards and found the perfect stamp… If someone had tried to make a stamp for us, it couldn’t have been more ideal. Two globes for wheels and even a […] Read More »
Getting a Dutch Bike… you’d think it’d be easy to buy a bike in Holland but there are surprisingly few used ones for sale and even 2nd hand they go for nearly as much as a new one. There’s so much to say about buying a bike that we wrote a whole page on the […] Read More »
Search the web for ‘Holland’ and ‘expat’ and you come up with a mindboggling array of sites and articles – enough to make your eyes glaze over for a good few days. So we were very happy when Cecilia recommended a look at her Amsterdam Guide with a nice, concise summary of what to do and […] Read More »
