#NL🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

[geodebiome]

[falling-mellow]

Tumblr celebrates Limburgish Carnaval aka Vastelaovend send post 🌾🇳🇱

[plechtigheid]

i think if we explode all the expats we’ll have enough space to let immigrants and refugees in

[saru18castillo]

THE ERAS TOUR

Amsterdam, NL 🇳🇱

[grandmaster-anne]

2 February 2023 HRH The Countess of Wessex and @JoannaRoperFCDO visited the @IntlCrimCourt this morning to hear from President Piotr Hofmański, Registrar Peter Lewis, and Prosecutor Karim Khan KC about the Court’s work in holding perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence to account. The Countess also visited @TFV_FPV, to hear about how they support victims of conflict-related sexual violence. 🇬🇧 supports not only the Court's capabilities to effectively investigate & prosecute CRSV crimes, but also sensitively seek to prevent re-traumatisation of survivors. — UK in NL🇬🇧🇳🇱

[bee311hive]

✨| Two new subtitles !

Purgatory part 1 🇵🇹 PT

Part 4 🇳🇱 NL

:D enjoy !!

[hiromusicarts-blog]

新譜「Colors of wind」各国のiTunes(AppleMusic)

🇯🇵Japan

https://music.apple.com/jp/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇺🇸USA

https://music.apple.com/us/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇬🇧GB

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇮🇹Italy

https://music.apple.com/it/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇮🇳India

https://music.apple.com/in/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇳🇱Netherlands

https://music.apple.com/nl/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇸🇬Singapore

https://music.apple.com/sg/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇨🇭Swizerland

https://music.apple.com/ch/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇸🇪Sweden

https://music.apple.com/se/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇪🇸Espana

https://music.apple.com/es/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇩🇪Germany

https://music.apple.com/gm/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇧🇷Brazil

https://music.apple.com/br/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

🇫🇷France

https://music.apple.com/fr/album/colors-of-wind/1633577529

[forestgreenkitten]

intro post 🩷

i'm peridot. 🇳🇱 she/her. speaks nl, en, fr, de, and understands a handful of other languages.

sub. female. queer. 29. i just like scrolling through nsft posts.

do not degrade me even slightly. it's an instant turnoff and will get you blocked.

i follow rules and never brat. i'm just not that kind of sub.

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non-sexual likes: pink, musical theatre, space, swimming, cute animals, languages, volleyball, video games

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into: praise, somno, bondage, service, free use, collars, nursing/lactation

maybe: ddlg, impact play

absolutely not: degradation, choking, gagging, bodily fluids, diapers, rape kink, kidnapping

[chiara-klara-claire]

About me: Chiara /kyah-rah/ | ♒️+虎🐯 | NL: 🇮🇹 +Lombard/Bergamàsch | TLs: 🇩🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇷🇮🇸🇯🇵🇳🇱 (occasionally 🇫🇴🇮🇪🇪🇪🇭🇺🇰🇷🇨🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Frysk)

🖍️my posts - resources masterpost | aesthetic idioms | funny idioms | words with cute literal meaning

🏷️ tags: de nl frisian | se dk no is | fi ee sami | baltic | jp kr | fr it lombard | cz ru | hu | celtic ie

resources | vocabulary | grammar | idioms | funny | culture | history | quotes | world | maps | music

LINKS

art/self/aesthetic blog @dreamyberry

IG  @chiara.klara.claire, twitter, t1kt0k: @_dreamyberry

My Wordpress blog where i write about Nordic cultures/langs, with my illustrations 🎨🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸

pinterest my language board

[falling-mellow]

Oh sh🦢t TIX is coming back to The Netherlands at Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam WHY AM I SO LATE TO THIS-

Anyways ahh unfortunately I am unable to go 😭😭

But I am very happy to hear he is coming back here again!!

For the peeps who are going, please take pics, maybe clips pls I beg u 🙏🥺🥺

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Blurry NL 🇳🇱

[aonoexpat]

🇳🇱NL to NZ🇳🇿

15-12-2022

Soooooo, here we are. The very first post of AoNoExpat with some background information is ready for consumption! It's been a long time coming, and a lot has happened since I first started entertaining the idea of traveling to Aotearoa, also (colonialism-ally) known as New Zealand. The option was offered to me by a couple of great friends, who have emigrated there a while ago. I have been unhappily searching for my place in the Dutch job market for a while now, and haven't been able to find it. Combine that with an increasingly unstable and unpleasant political climate, and you'll surely see why I haven't been able to stop thinking about it ever since that conversation.

The deciding moment happened on June 21st, when I declined a job offer in The Netherlands in favour of taking the leap. I'd wanted to travel again ever since my gap years after high school, and would have done so again after getting my bachelor's degree in AI, had it not been for Covid-19 making it virtually impossible. Now I'm getting a new opportunity, and I couldn't be more grateful for it.

As soon as I'd cast the proverbial die, my friend gave me a to-do list:

Get your driver's license; public transport in Aotearoa is not the same as in Europe;

Get your Working Holiday visa.

The driver's license would be a challenge, but luckily the application process for a WHV was quick and painless. I applied July 6th, and got approval on July 13th. A WHV allows me to stay in the country for up to 12 months from my arrival date onward, and while I'm there I'll be legally allowed to work to support myself. I've traveled with a WHV before in Australia (lmk if anyone knows a non-colonial name), and my reviews are tremendously positive. I'm very happy Aotearoa offers the same opportunities.

After some summer holiday activities, it was time to start with driving lessons. Turns out I have both a fear of driving and a fear of failure, and my verbally violent right-wing self-opinionated neurotypical cis-het male driving instructor didn't seem too bothered by that. After a gruelling total of 58 lessons and many an afternoon spent crying out of pure stress, I took the final exam on December 6th and PASSED. December 14th saw me picking up my license and driving home all by myself for the first time! I just need to convert it to an international license and then I'll be good to go.

Apart from the driving lessons, I haven't been sitting still these past few months. I consider myself an avid climate activist, so the thought of taking a plane to travel to Aotearoa didn't sit well with me. So, I promised myself I would try anything and everything in my power to get there some other way. Let me take you on the journey that was figuring this out:

My first thought was: FINALLY, a great excuse to take the trans-Siberian express! I'd heard about this 6-day train journey from Moscow to Beijing for the first time in 2014, and had been dying to take it ever since. However, then it hit me: the vast majority of this journey takes place in Russia. Russia, a country that The Netherlands currently aren't the best of friends with. But, who knows, perhaps it's still fine to travel there? I consulted the website of the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs, which quickly and aptly crushed that dream for me: "Are you currently in Russia? Leave. Are you living in Russia? Move out. Still want to go there? You're on your own, pal. We can't help you."

OKAY, so, not the trans-Siberian express, I suppose. Maybe I can duck underneath Russia, then? Take some trains, buses, hitchhike for a bit? I'd always prided myself on having a good sense of geography, but had not realised this would force me to travel through a selection of Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria. Seeing as I'm a solo female traveler, my friends and family weren't too thrilled about this.

Very well, traveling over land didn't seem like it was going to work out, and I hadn't even gotten into the mess of getting tourist visas for all of the countries I would have to pass through.

If land wasn't an option, how about sea? Traveling by boat? For example, maybe I could travel to the Americas, travel across to the other side, and try to get another boat to Aotearoa. Right? Sounded pretty easy at first, but that too turned out to be a lot harder. For traveling by sea, I had three options:

Sailing: I signed myself up at findacrew.net, a place where people who want to work on a boat and people who have a boat that need people to work on said boat can connect. Seemed like a great opportunity at first, but I quickly lost hope this would help me get there. Most people who have a boat do not casually travel from Europe to Oceania, and the website has some unfortunate restrictions that make it difficult to find the right people. For example, a lot of boat owners only want to be messaged by verified members. Very understandable, but to become a verified member you need to pay a monthly fee (not the biggest problem) and upload a scan of your ID (YES A BIG PROBLEM). I appreciate what they want to do, but I'm very big on (online) privacy and my ID is way too sensitive a document to share with some website that says nothing about how they will protect it. Besides all of that, these trips are long, and many boat owners are retired men that are looking for 1 person to help. I like to think I see the best in people but the thought of being alone at sea for 60 days with Philip the middle aged stranger didn't strike me as super safe. I've had my share of bad experiences with travel companions that turned out to be a lot different than they seemed at first glance. So, unfortunately, I chose to abandon this option.

Cargo ships: I heard that these huge sea monsters often make some extra cash by transporting a handful of passengers. I didn't think this option would be pleasant, but after watching some videos from people who have done it I was HOOKED. This seemed like a dream, the views from the ship looked fantastic and the rooms were very decent. Yes, cargo ships are also big polluters, but they don't make significant money off of passengers, like planes and cruise ships. The argument 'it'll go without me anyway' actually works for these. Sure, it's expensive (about €100-€150 per day), but it would be worth it, right? Right, but here's the catch: ever since Covid happened, cargo ships no longer take passengers. Because these trips can take a long time, there's too much risk that the destination country changes its Covid regulations while the ship is at sea. This can leave these ships stuck with passengers that are no longer allowed to disembark. I've emailed with Hamish from freightertravel.co.nz, and he told me cargo ship companies might start taking passengers again around 2024. Not an option at the current time, unfortunately.

Cruise ships: my last resort was trying to get a job on one of these. I didn't want to pay for a cruise because pollution-wise they're not much better than flying, but how cool would it be to be a lounge singer B99's Doug Judy style and earn my way across an ocean that way? I talked to a former Holland-America cruise ship musician, who put me in touch with two USA-based talent agents. I contacted both of them, but neither got back to me. After that I sent emails to 14 different cruise ship companies, offering my services as a musician or cleaning staff. I was willing to do any menial job, I told them I was not interesting in getting paid or gaining access to any facilities other than some food, a bed and a bathroom every now and again. Only 6 responded, out of which 1 was interested in having me audition. However, their first ship would go on its maiden journey from Belgium to Norway in July-August. Not the right journey for me, and any later ones would be too late. Sadly I had to write this off too.

As a final attempt, I made a post on LinkedIn asking my network for tips on how to get there, but this too yielded no results. Since I had officially run out of options and I knew that planes would get more and more expensive closer to departure, I finally admitted defeat and booked a plane ticket. It hurt my soul, but I have to draw the unfortunate conclusion that at this point in time, my destination does not lend itself well for any other modes of travel. I'm hopeful that by the time I will head back, some of the above options will be available again!

The plan is now as follows: early February 2023, I will fly from Paris and arrive in Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara (Wellington) 29 hours and 35 minutes later, which is relatively short for this journey. The flights cost me a total of €1.287,90. I'll still have to get to Paris so the price and duration will both increase a little in the end.

WELL, that's about all I can share right now! I'm hoping to update this blog whenever I can, so feel free to follow me to keep track of my journey :) Just a fair warning: I'm not making any promises that I'll keep this up as time goes on, if I no longer enjoy this I won't hesitate to stop.

I'd love to answer any asks you might have, I'll be honest and open about my experiences, but I will strictly not share any personal information.

I'm very open to feedback, please tell me if anything on this blog strikes you as offensive in any way, I'm continuously learning and my ego is not easily bruised.

I'll also be using this blog as a place for people from home and people I meet along the way to leave little messages or pictures for me. I look forward to building a lovely collection of wonderful memories! <3

[mmfood]

Jackrabbit Chocolate Studio NL🇳🇱 on Instagram: "We made these 😎 .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #chocolatechips #ınstagood #chocolatebar #giftideas #whitechocolate #amsterdam #amstelveenz #hilversum #utrecht #lovechocolate #sweettooth #chocolover #chocolovers #chocolateheaven #darkchocolate #chocolate #milkchocol

[disorientedandbewildered]

where u from? :)

Amsterdam, NL 🇳🇱

[llunaerian]

third king’s day in the nl 🇳🇱 and this one was by far the best one. the plan was to go to amsterdam but i’m so glad the plans changed and we stayed in utrecht. since i started uni i’ve expanded my social circle and opened myself to other nationalities other than brazilians. i’m so happy i did so because i’ve met the most wonderful people anyone could ever meet. so many genuine, passionate and kind people that now i’m blessed enough to call my friends. i wonder how i’ve managed to make it this far in life without these cunts. and it’s impossible for me to imagine life without them now…… i fucking love these cunts so much.

[grandmaster-anne]

2 February 2023 HRH The Countess of Wessex, together with Princess Mabel, @KittyvdHeijden, & @MukwegeFound spoke about tackling conflict related sexual violence, highlighting the importance of survivor voices. The UK & NL have committed to ensuring survivors' stories are not ignored. — UK in NL🇬🇧🇳🇱