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Tips on the best places to buy American food in the Netherlands, including the best American desserts in the Netherlands, written by an American living in the Netherlands.

Where to find the best American food in the Netherlands

September 1, 2020 by Karen Turner 19 Comments

As an American living in the Netherlands for a couple of years, I’ve been missing American food a lot.  More of a passion project than a real project, I’ve been compiling my favorite places to buy American food in the Netherlands to help other American expats living in the Netherlands satisfy their cravings. I’ve been…

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Filed Under: Europe, Expat Life, Netherlands Expat, The Netherlands Tagged With: expat

Shelves at a Dutch drugstore. Read tips for visiting a drugstore in the Netherlands, including helpful tips for what you might have forgotten at home! #amsterdam #holland #travel

10 useful tips for visiting drugstores in the Netherlands

July 23, 2023 by Karen Turner 12 Comments

Although you’ve definitely read numerous articles about the French pharmacies (and they are incredible!), I’m here to write about the Dutch drugstores. I’ll be including some tips for visiting the Dutch drugstore, including useful products that you might need with some helpful translations, and some money-saving tips for shopping at the Dutch drugstore.

Filed Under: Expat Life, Netherlands Expat

Tips for renting an apartment in Amsterdam for first-timers

May 13, 2022 by Karen Turner 50 Comments

Your insider guide on how to find an apartment in Amsterdam for expats with what to know about the Amsterdam housing market!

Filed Under: Expat Life, Moving Abroad, Netherlands Expat Tagged With: expat, housing, Netherlands

Tips from real expats for how to work abroad, getting international job offers, becoming an expat, and finding overseas jobs for professionals!

How to work abroad: Professional jobs to help you move abroad

May 27, 2017 by Karen Turner 19 Comments

Wondering how to become an expat? You need to find a job abroad! Here is a list of careers and advice to help you find international jobs! ​ Finding jobs abroad is much easier if you’re a professional with significant job experience and/or have a Masters/Ph.D. Depending on your career, living and working abroad with the right…

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Filed Under: Expat Life, France Expat, Moving Abroad, Netherlands Expat, Work and Travel Tips Tagged With: expat

Debating should I elope? Read an bride's reasons to elope & 15 best places to elope. Tips for elopement, including how to elope without offending family.

Should I elope? Reasons for eloping and 15 best places to elope

July 29, 2017 by Karen Turner 20 Comments

Weddings can be overwhelming, expensive, and exhausting, so eloping with your fiance is a great way to take the pressure off from intensive wedding planning and family stress. (Surprise, I got married!) Read why eloping was right for us, reasons to elope (or not elope), and about the best places to elope! This is not…

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Filed Under: Couples Travel, Expat Life, Travel Photography, Uncategorized Tagged With: Couples Travel, europe, Travel, travel tips, wedding

An expat guide to living in the Hague, the Netherlands, including the cost of living in the Hague

May 1, 2020 by Karen Turner 36 Comments

Considering moving to the Hague, the Netherlands? The Hague has been my home for some months now and after having some difficult decisions on where to live in the Netherlands, my husband and I chose to move to the Hague. Living in the Hague was right for us for a number of reasons, in particular,…

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Filed Under: Expat Life, Moving Abroad, Netherlands Expat, The Hague Tagged With: expat, Netherlands, The Hague

Woman traveling with her dog abroad. One of the best experiences is to move abroad and travel with your dog!

11 things to consider before traveling and moving abroad with your dog

August 8, 2018 by Karen Turner Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by a fellow animal lover, Maggie.  I wouldn’t consider leaving for a week or longer without my dog. He is my companion and I am part of his pack. It takes preparation, planning and research to take along a beloved family member.  If you are traveling abroad with your dog,…

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Filed Under: Expat Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: pet travel

Planning to fly internationally with your cat? Tips for traveling with your cat overseas with things to keep in mind before moving abroad with your cat!

Tips for traveling overseas with a cat & moving abroad with a cat

October 29, 2017 by Karen Turner 28 Comments

If you’re considering moving abroad with your cat, you have a lot of work cut out for you. Moving from the United States to Europe (Netherlands to Belgium to Romania to France) with my cat has been interesting to say the least.  If you want to bring your cat with you when you move abroad,…

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Filed Under: Expat Life, General Travel Tips, Moving Abroad, Uncategorized Tagged With: pet travel, Travel, travel tips

Happy couple celebrating the wedding at a post elopement reception in Asheville, North Carolina!

Our post elopement party: Tips for holding a reception after eloping

November 13, 2018 by Karen Turner 6 Comments

As many of you know, we eloped last year. It was perfect in its own way, but not being able to celebrate our wedding with our families bothered us.  We were saving up for a wedding in the States, but eloping forced us to reconsider our plans. Our elopement was small, intimate, and romantic, however…

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Filed Under: Couples Travel, Expat Life, Moving Abroad

17 things to know before celebrating King’s Day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

February 15, 2020 by Karen Turner 3 Comments

If King’s Day in Amsterdam is not on your radar, you need to put this Dutch holiday on your bucket list.  One day a year, the Netherlands becomes a street party of massive proportions; Amsterdam is the epicenter of this party.  Tourists and locals alike take to the canals to drink, dance, and buy/sell goods…

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Filed Under: Amsterdam, Budget Travel, Europe, Expat Life, Holland, Local Guides, Netherlands Expat, The Netherlands, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amsterdam, europe, Holidays, Netherlands, Travel, travel tips

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Karen. American expat and cat lover from New York City who lived in Amsterdam…. Then, Paris. Now, living in The Hague, the Netherlands. Happily married to Jacob.

Guidebook Author to Moon Amsterdam, Brussels, and Bruges, published March 2022.

 

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