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Cycling Guide to Groningen: lock your bike
Groningen is considered by many to be the cycling capital of the world. Two-thirds of all trips here are made …
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 …
Cycling Guide to Groningen: fixing a flat tire
How do you fix a flat tire? Bike shop owner (and IBS-student) Henrikas Gelgota of Bikes in Groningen shows us …
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 II
Watch international students struggle to pronounce insane Dutch words like ‘knipperlichtrelatie’ and ‘beroepswielrenner’ in episode 4 of Dutch Tongue Twisters!
Cycling Guide to Groningen: bike safety
Groningen is considered by many to be the cycling capital of the world. Two-thirds of all trips here are made …
Dutch Tongue Twisters III
Is Dutch even a language, or just random weird sounds? We found some very difficult Dutch words and asked several …