My Son Thinks Sinterklaas is Santa
My five year old son was sitting in complete silence at the kitchen table, studying the advent calendar I’d given him a few moments earlier. He’d been that way for at least a minute....
Category: My Dutch Life
20 Years in the Netherlands – A letter to my younger self
Hello Stuart, Welcome to the Netherlands. Don’t panic! I know everything feels very weird and overwhelming right now but I am writing to you from the future to tell you that everything will be...
What Would It Take to Melt Hagelslag?
At the start of the summer I shared a joke on my Twitter account about the short heatwave in the Netherlands. In it, I implied that the weather was so hot that it could...
Life and Blogging in the Time of Corona
This is the blog post that I had originally planned to post before I fractured my elbow. As you will read, it might even be responsible for it happening, in a tempting fate kind...
Things I Learned in the Netherlands
When I arrived in the Netherlands I was barely in my 20s and found a lot of things about the country confusing. I’m happy to say that over time things have changed. I am...
Things I Found Confusing About the Netherlands When I Arrived
When I moved to the Netherlands almost nineteen years ago it was safe to say that I had no idea what I was doing. It was the summer of 2001 and I was still...
