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Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
May 9th 2017, 8:50 am
Replies: 32
Views: 40,828
Posted By old wanderer

Re: warmest and driest city in the Netherlands?

Well Philp 1 As I said in my last comment just pack up and go back to where you came from. It must be so much better there, living with barbed wire fences surrounding people houses and all the racial...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 4th 2017, 12:01 pm
Replies: 63
Views: 3,418
Posted By old wanderer

Re: TV licences are Brits behind the times?

When I lived in Canada, trips back to the UK were enjoyed by being able to watch the BBC, mainly because of the quality. These days, with living in the Netherlands on cable I have BBC1,2 and 4 plus...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 16th 2017, 9:16 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,540
Posted By old wanderer

Re: missing home

Caretaker, must say the enclosed photo photo made me smile. Yes even police horses are not safe on the streets of Newcastle!!!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 15th 2017, 6:07 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,540
Posted By old wanderer

Re: missing home

The "aggressive Brit" is not something new, it's been there for a long time. Even the historian Michael Wood mentioned it when he did the programme "Domesday" back in the Eighties. As he said the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 13th 2017, 8:41 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,540
Posted By old wanderer

Re: missing home

As I mentioned in my comment nowhere is perfect but one of the big factors in Britain is alcohol consumption and these days it is extremely high. Quite often the norm is that people are tanked up...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 11th 2017, 9:43 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,540
Posted By old wanderer

Re: missing home

That brought some memories of a trip I made back many years ago. Going to a pub with an old friend, just before we went in, he told me not to look at anyone for longer than a couple of seconds. When...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Jan 14th 2017, 8:30 am
Replies: 32
Views: 40,828
Posted By old wanderer

Re: warmest and driest city in the Netherlands?

Netherlandsexpat - I started my travels way back in 1948 as a child and have been across North America and through Europe ever since. Been in the Netherlands for decades and have enjoyed every...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Jan 9th 2017, 9:09 am
Replies: 32
Views: 4,129
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Is British driver's licence valid in Holland?

Living in Holland for 30 years and still driving on a British driving licence? Seems rather strange but there again another expat with a foot in two countries. I certainly would not like to be...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Oct 15th 2016, 8:24 am
Replies: 32
Views: 40,828
Posted By old wanderer

Re: warmest and driest city in the Netherlands?

I doubt moving anywhere in the Netherlands will bring much change. Your problem is that you are homesick and the only cure is to move back to California. All year sunshine is not available in...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 4th 2016, 12:28 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 4,150
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Guns

For most people from the U.K. gun ownership is completely strange while in a lot of other countries it's the norm as the USA. Growing up as a small child in Nova Scotia the fact that there was a...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Mar 19th 2016, 5:25 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 5,598
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Arbiatary changing of name on driving licence

I suppose the gemeente should introduce special rules for people who don't like their procedure. If youare living in the country accept it or leave.
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Mar 17th 2016, 11:00 am
Replies: 10
Views: 5,598
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Arbiatary changing of name on driving licence

The reason the Dutch do this is that a woman's maiden name always remains the same while she might be married half a dozen times. Seems logical to me.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 13th 2016, 4:17 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 2,771
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Potentially moving from UK - Canada

I should imagine that moving to Canada would really be easier for you than most people. Having been there and a Canadian husband you know what the country is like. The only problem is leaving your...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 7th 2016, 5:49 pm
Replies: 33
Views: 1,388
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Would Fawlty Towers be accepted today?

I think most who watched "Fawlty Towers", realised that Basil was the person getting laughed at and not the victim like Manuel. The present crop of comediens like Frankie Boyle are not even funny,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 6th 2016, 7:04 pm
Replies: 97
Views: 6,052
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Lobster..

In answer to your question, no I was never put off eating any type of fish. Even when we came back to England my mother's Canadian family used to send us boxes of salt cod. I still have a Lunenburg...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 6th 2016, 8:33 am
Replies: 97
Views: 6,052
Posted By old wanderer

Re: Lobster..

Strange to read that so many people do not like eating sea food. As a child growing up in 50's Lunenburg I was surrounded by fish. I can still remember the smell of cod drying on racks all around the...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Nov 30th 2015, 2:07 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 5,906
Posted By old wanderer

Re: The Road to Little Dribbling

Another comment if I may. Many years ago, on holiday in the U.K., I went into a book shop. While looking around I noticed a display of Bill Bryson's books so I had a quick browse. As I thumbed...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Nov 30th 2015, 10:32 am
Replies: 47
Views: 5,906
Posted By old wanderer

Re: The Road to Little Dribbling

Having read "Notes from a small Island" years ago the new book from Bill Bryson was a must. After reading "the Road to Little Dribbling" I must say that he was spot on again.
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Nov 10th 2015, 7:18 pm
Replies: 63
Views: 10,303
Posted By old wanderer

Re: No Skills, No Dutch

What i find strange is that anyone without a job offer would even contemplate moving to another country with their family. Sheer madness which will end in disaster. When I first came to the...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Sep 24th 2015, 7:02 pm
Replies: 63
Views: 10,303
Posted By old wanderer

Re: No Skills, No Dutch

No Dutch means you would have to have skills for the job market where English is the main language used e.g. offshore engineering. No skills means simple jobs e.g. filling the shelves in a...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Sep 7th 2015, 2:44 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 3,203
Posted By old wanderer

Re: advice from expats on their experience learning Dutch

Supernova.... If you set mind to it, its actually easy. When I came to the country I thought this a language that I'll never understand (guess where the saying "its all double Dutch" came from)....
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Sep 5th 2015, 11:17 am
Replies: 20
Views: 3,203
Posted By old wanderer

Re: advice from expats on their experience learning Dutch

I've found out over the years that not being able to speak the local language was certainly a disadvantage. Before moving to Holland I was working and living in Montreal, in a completly French area....
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Sep 3rd 2015, 6:23 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 3,203
Posted By old wanderer

Re: advice from expats on their experience learning Dutch

Way back in 1975 when I was doing my best to get to grips with speaking the language, one of the Dutch guys in my office laughed at the way I had said something, and a Liverpool lad in the office...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Sep 3rd 2015, 8:37 am
Replies: 20
Views: 3,203
Posted By old wanderer

Re: advice from expats on their experience learning Dutch

For me the way was a Dutch Linguaphone course and total submersion in the language. Meeting a Dutch girl who spoke five languages (and better English than myself) certainly helped. Now after 44 years...
Forum: Belgium , Netherlands, Luxembourg
Aug 27th 2015, 10:41 am
Replies: 12
Views: 2,304
Posted By old wanderer

Re: What's your experience in The Netherlands?

City Life-You sound like many of the short term ex-pats I've met over the years. Here for six months and know the country plus its citizens in every aspect. Do you speak fluent Dutch? No, ofcourse...
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