Biggest Culture Shocks so far as an Expatriate in the Netherlands
Today, I celebrate having lived half a year in the Netherlands (read more about the move here). It probably would have been an adventure anyway, but with the Covid-19 in the game, it has been weirder than I would have…
Moving abroad for Love and How I Did It in Covid-times
We had already agreed that I would move from Finland to live with my partner in the Netherlands, as news of a mysterious virus started to appear in the media in January 2020. As probably most other people, we didn’t…
The Beach of Scheveningen During the Covid Pandemic
On a hot August Saturday, we went for a visit to Den Haag. It is also home to Scheveningen, a beach resort district of which I had never heard before. It would turn out that the beach of Scheveningen during…
A Sweltering Summer Day in the Hague
Yesterday, the sun continued to offer us another sweltering summer day here in the Netherlands (quite exceptional, to be honest). As the temperatures rise well above 30 Celcius, our tiny penthouse apartment changes into a sauna experience, not that far…