I can say that I get more and more shocked and a bit annoyed whenever I visit the USA. It is like reverse culture shock. I have been living in the Netherlands for two years now. Before the pandemic, I visited the USA several times. There are some things that I just cannot get over […]
How to Spend a Weekend on the Dutch Island of Texel
Please note that this blog post contains affiliate links. Did you know that there are several Dutch islands very close to mainland Netherlands? I finally got to visit one of them this weekend with my boyfriend. I had a pretty hard few days, so we decided to visit Texel for the weekend. We took a […]
The Most Asked Questions I Get About Life in the Netherlands Answered
I have lived in the Netherlands for a little over two years now. The reason I am here is that my boyfriend is Dutch. Over my two years here, I have learned a lot about Dutch culture and have changed my lifestyle completely. I get a lot of questions about living in the Netherlands, so […]
My Experience With Being Jewish in the Netherlands
I grew up in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. My father was born in Moscow, Russia, and my mother was born in Babruysk, Belarus. Both of my parents grew up not religious and became religious later in life. For most of my life, I lived in a big Russian speaking Jewish community. […]
My 2020 in Review, and What I’m Looking Forward to This Year
If we are thinking of all the years in the last few decades, 2020 was probably the hardest, at least it was for me. So many things didn’t go as planned. It was like living in a never-ending limbo. 2021 has started, and I am still living in limbo, but I have things to look […]