Shopping cities in The Netherlands
Leiden We start this list with Leiden, one of the nice shopping cities in the Netherlands. With about 650 shops, there is plenty on…
2021 – Edition 9 November
IDFA 2021 runs from November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam
With the 34th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) just over two weeks away, IDFA’s Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia unveiled highly…
Health Insurance 2022
Option to change your policy before 1 January If you have a mandatory Dutch health insurance (‘Basisverzekering’) then you have the option to change…
Mission: impossible
We looked in on the efforts to make sport more sustainable in the Netherlands before the worldwide pandemic brought the sector to a virtual…
Jingdezhen. 1000 years of porcelain in Museum Prinsenhof Delft
Museum Prinsenhof Delft brings the history of Chinese porcelain from Jingdezhen to the Netherlands in 90 masterpieces. These range from early Song Dynasty porcelain…
Overheated housing market: DNB offers solutions
Escalating house prices, a lack of housing, negative social consequences and public demonstrations highlighting the urgency of the problem: the country seems fed up…
Interview with an expat
Name Divya Where do you come from and where do you live in the Netherlands? I am from Pune, India, and now live in…
Royal Delft pop-up store in Westfield Mall of the Netherlands
Monday 27 September, Royal Delft opened its new pop-up store in the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands. A selection of products from recent collections…
The Royal Christmas Fair
14 days of sheer Christmas magic The Lange Voorhout in The Hague will once again host the largest multi-day Christmas fair in the Netherlands…
New Plans for Noordwijk Landmarks (hopefully!)
A couple of times last year (2020) I wrote about Ronnie van de Putte, the notorious ‘slum lord of the Netherlands’. The real estate…
Mortgage deduction abandoned?
The mortgage deduction is a topic constant under discussion. This time the discussion is about abandoning the entire mortgage deduction. Is that likely to…
Amsterdam sees drastic drop in tourist rental listings
Recent steps taken by Amsterdam’s city council to reduce problems associated with overtourism appear to be paying off — the number of tourist rentals…
Amsterdam’s housing crisis
There is no denying that the housing crisis in this country has taken on new urgency, with more and more people struggling and often…
Mayor Halsema wants more money to fight drug crime
What are the Dutch most known for, their cheese or their narcotics? The nation that so far was best known for its tulips, windmills,…
Is cash disappearing?
Cash is being used less and less each year in the Netherlands. In recent times, factors like the Covid crisis and measures to trace…
Skyrocketing energy prices
Since the cancellation of many Covid restrictions, all around the world the demand for fuel has skyrocketed. In 2020, in the midst of the…
Cyber threats aimed at politicians are on the rise
Digital life has added more complexity to an already tricky question: How can the authorities decipher the difference between hateful rants that contain hollow…
Current Dutch politics – and now for something new
As much as we thought and hoped there would be a new cabinet in the Dutch government to showcase in this edition, alas there…
GPs feel the strain
The extremely high pressure under which GPs work, in addition to staff shortages, means an overload for general health care in the Netherlands. Running…
The African Christmas market
The African Christmas market brings together businesses providing unique products and services for the African community in the Netherlands. The main purpose of the…