Project X Haren revisited
In 2012 the small town of Haren made worldwide headlines. A peaceful town transformed into a battlefield for one night. …
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Staying up with the big boys
A quarter to seven in the morning and the sun is ascending behind the Martini Tower. The blue and orange …
Inviting foreign students into local democracy
International students make up a large part of the Groningen student population. Yet, they are not as involved in the …
7 Euro NS group tickets: Legal or not?
Dutch train tickets are not cheap. A way to save money is to opt for a 7 euro NS Group …
Good advice and dirty jokes
Got some calls this week. One of my old roommates just became a father. Two days later: my niece is …
Deplorable housing for international students
Students from abroad are not satisfied with their housing. Just about everything goes wrong and it’s mostly a lack of …
Loes Damhof is Holland’s Lecturer of the Year
Loes Damhof has been elected as Dutch Lecturer of the Year 2016. Becoming a teacher was never her childhood dream, …
Let’s get this mother home!
We were somewhere on the highway, near Karlsruhe, when Thim lost his shit. We were stuck in an endless traffic …
Dutch Tongue Twisters III
Is Dutch even a language, or just random weird sounds? We found some very difficult Dutch words and asked several …
Six reasons to hate Holland
When you arrived in the Netherlands everything seemed amazing. New people, new experiences and a new country with so much …
No good story ever started…
The other day I was eating a salad in a diner café. How’s that for an introduction? I stranded there …
Why is information about Groningen in Dutch?
The number of international students studying at Hanze UAS and the University of Groningen is still increasing, but somehow the …