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Cooking Dutch - Cooking hints for foreigners, mainly Americans, includes tips on what to bring from home, what's difficult to find, and translations for food items.
Australian and British News - A.B.N. is a monthly magazine for English speaking people.
Housingonline - Home finders online service; also includes information, hints and tips on successful living.
Here's Holland - Comprehensive expat and travel guide provides visitors of all ages with a unique insight into Holland's treasures and pleasures, its culture and customs.
American Vlaai - English resources for expatriates, including statistical and cultural information, language and expatriate groups and articles on culture shock, discussion forum and mailing list.
Holland Voice - Life in and around Holland; includes bi-monthly newsletters, photos, discussion forum, and information.
Beth and Marcel's Page - American expatriate; includes photo album, bios and links.
Expatica - News in English from Holland (the Netherlands) plus how-to and what's on information for people living and working abroad. HR site provides advice and news for international human resources personnel dealing with expatriation. Plus, job listings, housing listings, relocation advice, local guides and Europe's only online expat dating service.
ExpatsOnline - Offers local and international news. Find out about moving overseas, the Dutch culture, healthcare, taxation, schools, and activities.
English speaking community in the Netherlands - Social activities, referrals, directory and notice board.
Dear Henry letters - An amusing narrative of the Dutch and their culture, seen through the eyes of a British man, through correspondence written to a relative.
Linko - Relocation services and related information.
Ins and Outs Relocaters - Immigration and relocation services, providing support, and assistance to companies in personal relocation management; consultation and information, practical and legal services associated with relocation in international assignment.
My Haarlem - Social network for (expat) professionals in Holland, organizing weekly events (drinks, sporting events, wine tastings) in, and providing information about the Haarlem and Amsterdam areas.
Forage - Online grocer specializing in dry, chilled and frozen British and American foods with delivery services to some areas.
UnDutchables Web Site - The official UnDutchables web site, inspired by the book.
Expat Apartment Service - Apartment locater service in the greater Amsterdam region.
Style and Grace - Photography by Lisa - Photography for expats, including weddings and other special events.
Connect International - Company to assist newcomers in the North of Holland, including relocation services, events, health and business club.
Expatriates in the Netherlands Ring - Webring for expatriates.
Filipinos in The Netherlands - Services, news, music, links and events.
NonDutchable in Holland - General information for newcomers, includes cooking help, traditions, chat, message boards.
Malaysians in the Netherlands - Site by and for Malaysians, includes links, photos, contact list and living highlights.
Red Bus - Russian resources in Holland.
Expatriate Forums - Expat Bulletin Boards and Community - Expatriate Forums online is an online community and bulletin board where expats from the Netherlands and other parts of the Europe meet to discuss living overseas.
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Expatriate Life I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Expatriate Life The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Expatriate Life "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Expatriate Life We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Expatriate Life I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Expatriate Life A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Expatriate Life Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Expatriate Life Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Expatriate Life I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Expatriate Life A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Expatriate Life Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Expatriate Life History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Expatriate Life None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Expatriate Life "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Expatriate Life "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Expatriate Life "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Expatriate Life "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Expatriate Life If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Expatriate Life When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Expatriate Life A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Expatriate Life Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Expatriate Life
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