Finding Your Dream Home in the Netherlands

ACCESS Magazine editor and writer Richard Morris details the complex path to securing a home in the Netherlands. Whether you are renting or buying, it's crucial to understand the fast-paced housing market and how to navi-gate the financial and legal requirements. Richard equips you with...

Finding Art in Every Lesson

Art can and should be integrated into every subject area to improve academic performance, creativity, motor skills, self-confidence, and focus. Written by a teacher in the field, this article delves into the practicalities of weaving art throughout the curriculum.

Dutch Business – Striving for balance

A fellow Canadian who works as a manager for an IT company with offices in Amsterdam warned that working with Dutch colleagues might be challenging. I could expect to spend my time negotiating every little change in plans and might find that colleagues expect to...

Urban identity

Any saunter through an urban street could lead to an encounter with a sprayed artwork left on the walls, an image hidden off the regular walkways or a tag proudly displaying bulging initials. Depending on whom you ask, street art can be seen as anything...

Become a STAR of your own relocation

When one partner gets a job offer in another country, it can often mean the other partner leaving their job, life, friends and family to relocate alongside. Being an accompanying partner, trailing partner, expat spouse–whatever the term–can be a stressful time, often full of uncertainty,...