Trains and railways in the Netherlands

March 2024 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn Recently an international friend suggested ‘Trains in the Netherlands’ as a topic for a new blog post. As a frequent commuter by train, she’d be interested to learn more about Dutch trains. Being a frequent train...

Fashioning Your Career Forward

March 2024 | Written by – Ariel Slaughter   What do marketing, architecture, copy writing, and design all have in common? They are all creative fields where fluency in Dutch is preferred. When you come from abroad with these backgrounds it can feel like an uphill...

Eindhoven: City of Lights

November 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn Eindhoven: Its history as the ‘City of Light’ Chances are that you have recently seen announcements for the so-called ‘Glow Festival´. The upcoming edition of this Eindhoven festival will take place from...
A Dutch Birthday Party

A Dutch Birthday Party

May 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn In this edition of the blog I´d like to take a look with you at the inner workings of Dutch birthday parties. You stand a fair chance of occasionally skimming past such an event at work or study. And you may even one day find...
Understanding Culture Shock

Understanding Culture Shock

April 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn Often, my blog posts are about the Dutch and the Dutch culture in particular. And they explain one or another aspect of that to internationals (or ‘new locals’, if you prefer). Not this time, though. The topic of...

An International Team Dedicated to Helping Others

An International Team Dedicated to Helping Others November 2022 | Written by – Ariel Slaughter   The Expat Spouses Initiative (ESI) is a social enterprise born from the personal experience of an accompanying spouse who found it difficult to professionally...
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