by Clarissa | Oct 29, 2018 | personal |
My parents sold their house last week. The house they’d lived in since I was small. My first memories are when we moved into that house aged three – walking with my dad through the dining room, taking big steps over the rolls of carpet on the floor. The...
by Clarissa | Sep 5, 2017 | dutch life, family
We’ve now been in the Netherlands for over three years. The anniversary passed while we were on holiday in the UK in fact. Which made me think about how soon you lose the ties to places you used to live in. And how quickly you are bound to a new place. Walking...
by Clarissa | Jun 26, 2014 | dutch life
One of the big challenges when moving is to find somewhere to live at the other end. Even more so when you’re moving abroad, so have to figure out a completely different system. However, we seem to have managed it remarkably easily. We had planned while we were...