Tag Archives: Dutch News

Yesterday Xander and I were driving home from town and as we were coming along towards the Erasmus Bridge I noticed this huge building… and for a second I thought, where the hell did that come from so quick!? That’s when I realized that it was a ship at the cruise terminal.   We get a lot of cruise ships coming …

One thing you can never say about the Dutch is that they aren’t patriotic.  Especially when it comes to football!   This past weekend Holland lost to Russia and are out of the semi finals. It sucks, but the Dutch milked the short ride for all it was worth.   Everywhere you looked was ORANJE (orange), which is the true color of …

Apparently Dutch kids are the happiest in the western world.   From DutchNews.NL: Dutch children are the happiest in the western world, according to a new World Health Organisation survey of 41 European and North American countries, quoted in Wednesday’s Volkskrant. Last year, a Unicef report also found that Dutch teenagers were the happiest in the developed world. The WHO report …

Looks like I got out just in time… Apparently addiction consultants Smith & Jones are coaxing gamers back to reality in a clinic in Amsterdam. They say… Research suggests online game playing may trigger the release of the chemical dopamine in the brain. A study done in London’s Hammersmith Hospital showed that increased levels of dopamine were roughly the equivalent …

I’ve come to love the website www.Expatica.com because it makes me feel like my sometimes negative feelings towards live in the Netherlands aren’t completely without foundation. I just read another interesting article about a poll done on expats and their feelings about living in NL. I appear to fit in among the 15% of foreigners in NL…. that % of …

Found this on one of my yahoo groups that was posted from www.Expatica.com 23 September 2005 AMSTERDAM — At least 77 percent of the mainly expat staff of international agencies in the Netherlands want to leave the country. And more than half of the Dutch employees think their organisation should relocate to another country, according to a report in newspaper …

I just saw this article I had to blog again immediately. The is what the article says: Call it rhino winter blues – a pair of rhinoceroses in a Dutch zoo are being given sunbed treatments to make up for the lack of sunlight during the cloudy winter months. Rhinos Jennifer and Petra don’t like the gray Dutch weather much. …