I've been tagged by Carissa from Musings of an Introvert.

Four jobs I've had:
1. PhD student/researcher
2. Administrative assistent (multiple times)
3. Bookstore employee (for exactly one week...)
4. Cleaning lady

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Hamlette tagged me for the Sisterhood of the World bloggers award. Thank you so much Hamlette!


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touchofgr3y posted about local foods from her home area of upstate New York a few days back and invited everyone to post about food local and unique to where we live.

So here for you, a little list of some typical Dutch foods!

Cheese: Probably most famous outside of The Netherlands is Dutch cheese. The Netherlands is the largest cheese exporter in the world ( Read more... )

Bookish and Not-So-Bookish Thoughts is a weekly blogging event hosted by Bookishly Boisterous. It allows
book bloggers (and non-book bloggers) to write about pretty much anything, bookish or otherwise (i.e. sharing
exciting plans for the weekend, rants on things they've encountered during the week etc.)
1. I have a new phone, yay! After struggling ( Read more... )

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Tomorrow, here in The Netherlands, we celebrate Sinterklaas! And I thought for all of you foreign readers ( I believe all but one of the persons on my f-list are foreign) this would be a nice topic for this week's '100 things' post. The next three posts are going to be about Christmas related facts. So if there's some Christmas tradition you've ( Read more... )

I'll give you one more serving of a 'Dutch' fact, as this period of the year we do not just celebrate Queen's Day, but also remember WWII (on the 4th and 5th of May). Always a poignant time of the year, in which many stories about this period are told and retold.

Today, I'd like to make you familiar with the use of inundation during WWII. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, we nationally celebrate Queen's Day or Koninginnedag in The Netherlands. On this day, the Queen visits one or two cities or towns in The Netherlands with her family and is there treated to a taste of the local customs, sports- and music societies and historical details. This visit is broadcast live on television, but most other towns in ( Read more... )