by Clarissa | Jun 8, 2020 | dutch life, family |
Things here in the Netherlands have started to open up again after what has been described as an “intelligent” lockdown. Primary schools have been back for a few weeks with half sized classes, as the children did half school at school and half school at...
by Clarissa | Nov 18, 2019 | dutch life |
It’s that time of year again, when the shops are full of kruidnoten and we have the seemingly endless consumerism approaching of Sinterklaas followed by Christmas. One of the things you need to do to a greater extent when you live abroad is to combine holiday...
by Clarissa | Jun 13, 2019 | dutch life, family, writing |
Today is launch day for “Moving abroad with children” and “Raising bilingual children: when school speaks a different language”. Both these books are based on our experience moving from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Writing them has...
by Clarissa | Jun 10, 2019 | dutch life, family, writing |
“Moving abroad with children” releases later this week, so here are some more details about what it covers! The first part of the book is an introduction, which begins with our story. Here it is: At eight months pregnant with our second child I came to the...
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...
