What Death Teaches About Living Abroad

Grief, distance, and what no relocation package prepares you for. There are many ways to learn about the country you’ve moved to and now live in. You learn it through its food, traffic, humour, the way strangers make — or avoid — eye contact on...

Super smooth, classic hummus

The debate over which kind of hummus is the best, the chunky or the smooth, is a controversial one among hummus lovers. I used to be on team chunky hummus, simply because I love the added texture and slight crunch of the chickpeas when I...

Access is accessing

Access is accessing: As the world strives to be more inclusive, how are bicycles and cycle paths helping create an equal society and making life more accessible for people with different physical and/or intellectual abilities.

It started with a dog named Sunny

In 1935, Sunny began accompanying a blind brush maker in Amsterdam to and from the factory where he worked. The 10-month-old Malinois mix was the first graduate of what would become the Koninklijk Nederlands Geleidehonden Fonds – KNGF (Royal Dutch Guide Dog Fund), the first...

Banking in the Netherlands

There are as many options for banking in the Netherlands as there are financial institutions. By taking your time and carefully studying the variety of services on offer, you’ll be assured of finding the right bank for all your family’s needs.