Abuzer van Leeuwen 🇳🇱

Abuzer founded DutchReview a decade ago because he thought expats needed it and wanted to make amends for the Dutch cuisine. He has a Masters in Political Science and IT but somewhere always wanted to study history or good old football. He also a mortgage in the Netherlands and will happily tell you too how to get one. Born and raised in Rotterdam, Abuzer now lives in Leiden but is always longing back to his own international year in Italy.

5 summer wardrobe items every Dutch office gentleman needs before the next heatwave hits

The Dutch office and air conditioning have a famously distant relationship, so when the heat arrives, the well-dressed man needs a strategy that isn't...

This magical €240 million building could become Rotterdam’s Eiffel Tower

A stack of seven giant green rocks is coming to Rotterdam-Zuid, after Dutch architecture firm MVRDV won an international competition to design a €240...

Summer school holidays in the Netherlands: 6 things every international parent should know

The summer school holidays in the Netherlands are the real 'postcode' lottery: everyone gets six weeks, nobody agrees on which six.  First of all,...

The US wants to demolish the International Criminal Court, and the Netherlands is barely fighting back

The United States wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and this time it says it is willing to go further...

More Dutch people are visiting doctors about their weight

More people in the Netherlands went to their huisarts (GP) about being overweight last year, and the number shot up quickly, with the buzz around weight-loss...

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