Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Family & Friends, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Writing, tagged 4 Kids 20 Suitcases and a Beagle, blogging, Gidday from the UK, Isolated Internationals, Note from Lapland, Perking the Pansies, Seven Links Project, wordgeyser on July 18, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I’d been away from Twitter for a few days and was over there checking things out. Suddenly I saw a hot new tweet from my fun friend Jack over at Perking the Pansies. Jack (who retired early and lives in Bodrum, Turkey with life partner and talented new pop music composer Liam) had just tweeted and […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Netherlands, New to Nederland, United States, tagged emotional resilience, expats-to-be, five phases of expat transition, moving to the Netherlands on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Since this blog began a little over 7 months ago, I’ve been contacted by three different Americans who were planning to move here to Nederland this year. These women (and their families) are not aspiring expats; they are expats-to-be, in that the commitments are made, jobs accepted (and wrapped up back in the US), movers […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Life Balance, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Travel, United States, tagged expat community, expat culture shock, explore, Netherlands, settling in on March 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Okay, welcome back to sharing with an inbound expat info and experience gleaned while living in Nederland. If you happened to miss it, here’s the first installment of sharing the expat wealth from two days ago. Just a quick reminder that these are my views, based on my research, experiences, and conversations with many others. People choose to live outside […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Life Balance, Netherlands, New to Nederland, United States, tagged Amsterdam, Dutch life, expat, expat advice, moving to the Netherlands on March 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
of info and experience, that is. Today I’m going to do something a little different. I was contacted by a reader who is an inbound ’expat-to-be’. (Yay!) She’s a young mom of a one-year old, relocating to Amsterdam soon due to her husband’s work, and asked for any advice. Briefly I told her the following: As she […]
