Becoming Dutch: Visual Guide #1
This cartoon first appeared in the July/August edition of DUTCH:The Magazine
Stuart
Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.
I get upset when we have to get Calvé mayo instead of Remia.
Wow. That’s a level of Dutch I have not discovered yet. You must be really Dutch now.
One sign you’re not Dutch yet: Cycling with a helmet on!
The loose chin strap is a sign of advancing integration though!
Haha. I didn’t even think of that when I drew it. It shows I still have some way to go yet.