Tagged: Dutch

Bright yellow-orange signs help weary travelers find the Baggage Hall and Arrivals Hall.

Guide: Airport Customs and Immigration

If you are coming to visit us in the Netherlands (as I hope you are!), and you are flying in from another country, you will go through Customs and Immigration at the airport. Not...

First Trip Back to US

First Trip Back to US

Five Beds, No Waiting, or, Would You Like to Get on a Plane In the space between November 1 and November 19, Billy and I slept in 5 different beds (technically 6 for him)...

Where is Home

Where is Home

When you’re the new folks in town, you end up getting a lot of the same questions. Why did you move here? How long are you staying? What do you do for a living...

Dutch Adventure: Week Four

Dutch Adventure: Week Four

Week Four: Laundry, Laundry, Cooking, Gaming, and Gaming Welcome to the fourth week of our Dutch Adventure, covering the dates of  Sunday 2 September to Saturday 8 September. This week we did a bit of...

Amsterdam Comic Con 2018

Amsterdam Comic Con 2018

Comic Con Amsterdam! Sunday 2 September, 2018 Earlier in the week, I was chatting with a friend of a friend and they were planning on going to Comic Con Amsterdam on Sunday, so we...

Dutch Adventure: Week Two, Part 3

Dutch Adventure: Week Two, Part 3

Week Two: Rain, Rain Jackets, and Wobbly Legs I’m trying to get used to writing Day, Month, Year, so you’re all getting the benefit of me exercising this new muscle. 😀 Saturday 25 August,...

Dutch Adventure: Week Two, Part 2

Dutch Adventure: Week Two, Part 2

Week Two of our Dutch Adventure I covered the first day of the week (Monday the 20th of August) in which we rented bicycles and the adventure of that in a previous post. Here’s...

Learning Dutch Housing Terms

Learning Dutch Housing Terms

We’ve been daydreaming about housing in the Netherlands for a number of months now, looking at various websites to see what kind of places might be available to us. A quick side note: the...