by Clarissa | Jan 11, 2017 | dutch life, family
In the Netherlands school is compulsory from 5, but you can attend from 4, which most children do so. This is a rolling start through the year, so the day after your 4th birthday you start school and children are starting throughout the school year. I found this a bit...
by Clarissa | Dec 27, 2016 | dutch life
So it’s that time of the year again – here is our list of activities through Sinterklaas and advent. My aim (as in previous years) was to do a mix of craft and cooking activities, some seasonal things and some for other people spreading the festive cheer!...
by Clarissa | Dec 3, 2016 | dutch life, family
We are in the middle of Sinterklaas season here at the moment. He arrives the first Saturday after the 11th November and is here til the 5th Dec – this year as the 11th November was a Friday he’s here for the longest possible. So every shop window has some...
by Clarissa | Nov 1, 2016 | dutch life, family
There used to be a sign up at my secondary school – Friendship is like an egg: hold it too tight and it cracks; hold it too loose and it drops. I am guilty of the second of those two – I find it difficult to stay in touch with people I don’t see...
by Clarissa | Sep 13, 2016 | dutch life
Albert Heijn (the local supermarket – a bit like Sainsburys back in the UK) gave out moestuintjes earlier in the year. For each fifteen euros you spent you got a little pot with seeds in – a random one from twenty-four different types of plant in a...
by Clarissa | Sep 9, 2016 | dutch life
We hadden een heel lange zomervakantie dit jaar – twee weken in Noord Frankrijk (Normandië) en twaalf dagen in Engeland. Bijna een maand weg! Honfleur Bergen! Modelspoorbaan Zandscuplturen op het strand Neefje en nichtjes x Mooie tuinen en uitzichten Terug naar...
