Settling In
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Just a few weeks ago someone asked me how long I’d lived in the Netherlands for, and I said 2.5 years. Then about 3 weeks after that, I got a Facebook memory pop up, reminding me that it was a whole THREE YEARS AGO that the shipping company took our cube to set sail, which was a mere two weeks…
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Aside from leaving my people, for me, the next hardest thing wasn’t leaving the weather. It wasn’t leaving behind the good things, like Woolies, or Dis-Chem (or doctors who were… Read More
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Someone asked me this week if Amsterdam feels like home, and I didn’t really know how to answer, because I’m not quite sure how I feel. It kinda does, but… Read More
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The other day I was riding somewhere, and I realised that my journey with a bike here hasn’t been dissimilar to our emigration process. There was preparation, falls, highs, downhills,… Read More
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A lot of you have been asking me how to choose a school or what to consider in terms of schooling when moving to the Netherlands. At a high level… Read More
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These last few weeks have been among the hardest I’ve gone through since we’ve been here, and it’s not really even connected to emigration or being in a new’ish place.… Read More
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I get asked weekly about emigration – how we did it, how we found an apartment, how we got in, how we found jobs etc etc. Some of them come… Read More
About Me
Hi, I'm Tanya. I'm a South African now living in Amsterdam. I'm a mom, runner and writer, and work in content & advertising. Welcome to my blog. Read More
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