by Clarissa | Jun 3, 2019 | dutch life, family
I wrote a post awhile ago about all the things that I didn’t understand about living in the Netherlands, and as we’ve been here a bit longer now I thought I would write a complementary post on what I think are the best things about living here. These are...
by Clarissa | Oct 9, 2017 | dutch life
It’s amazing how different supermarkets can be in different places. You’d think they’d be the same everywhere, but the French hypermarkets are a completely different world to Dutch smaller supermarkets, which can be only a bit bigger than corner...
by Clarissa | May 30, 2017 | dutch life, family
I’m reading Harry Potter in Dutch at the moment. (I may have mentioned this before!) And I keep noticing places where the translation is not just the words, but also the cultural expectation. I’ve mainly noticed it with the food they eat. The story of...
by Clarissa | Mar 4, 2017 | family
I love cooking; though being able to do it on my own is a luxury I rarely have. As a child I only remember having to make crumble. (Now I make mean pastry.) I’m not sure why I didn’t do more? My sister did. I don’t like to ask for things, so maybe I...
by Clarissa | Feb 8, 2017 | family |
Meal planning is something I don’t particularly enjoy – I love cooking but often feel uninspired when faced with a blank piece of paper to sit down and decide what we should eat this week. And I don’t want to be eating new things every day, or eating...
