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Netherlands

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From Cheeseheads to Cheese Towns

Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [40]

That’s right. I moved from Wisconsin, ‘America’s Dairyland’ and home of the Cheeseheads, to Gouda, Netherlands, which shares its name with the cheese it’s famous for. It is in this quaint town that I accepted an au pair position and moved to for the ... Read more >


It has begun

Thursday, 15 May 2008 | Views [53] | Comments [1]

I ordered my Eurail pass so this trip is happening! It's nice to have finally committed to an idea for this summer and I'm definitely looking forward to it. The current agenda is to leave the Netherlands for at least Barcelona, Zurich, Vienna, Budapest, ... Read more >


Kids - the bike adventure

Thursday, 15 May 2008 | Views [46]

Today I somehow was having difficulty coming up with something to do in the early afternoon and decided to get out of the house. Going for a bike ride sounded nice and the weather was good so I put Matthias in the little chair on the back of my bike ... Read more >


Kids - Zoo Special Edition

Sunday, 4 May 2008 | Views [55] | Comments [1]

Oh, just so that you don't get the wrong impression, I do work in my spare time. After having the kids all to myself for three days while my host parents went away for the weekend, I thought it would be nice to share some of stories of my time with ... Read more >


Sinterklaas

Thursday, 6 Dec 2007 | Views [30]

Sinterklaas is a holiday celebrated in the Netherlands that is similar to Christmas in the US in that there is a lot of hype especially for the kids (some of the television I watched related to this holiday was priceless!), families get together for ... Read more >


And so I arrive

Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [29]

After an exhausting trip from Madison to Amsterdam I was still not able to rest until meeting my host family and getting to Gouda. Luckily we recognized each other immediately which was something that had concerned me enough to have a picture of my ... Read more >


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