Beatrice Scali 🇮🇹

Five years after spreading her wings away from her beloved Genova, Bia has just landed at DutchReview as an editorial intern. She has lived in China, Slovenia, Taiwan, and — natuurlijk — the Netherlands, where she just completed her bachelor’s in International Studies. When she’s not reciting unsolicited facts about the countries she’s lived in, she is writing them down. Her biggest dreams include lobbying the Dutch government into forcing oliebollen stands to operate year-round, and becoming a journalist. In this order.

PostNL worker dumps parcels in waste bins for three weeks, hundreds of residents left without mail

A temporary PostNL worker has thrown away three-weeks worth of mail destined for hundreds of residents of Hengelo, Twente.  PostNL hired the holiday worker to...

Chihuahua army: Two Dutch sisters found to have 125 dogs in one house

Two sisters from Culemborg, Gelderland, were discovered to own 125 Chihuahuas in a 112-square-metre house. The dogs have now been removed — to the...

Joost Klein disqualified for…nothing? Case dropped against Eurovision star

Joost Klein can heave a grote sigh of relief: the investigation about the incident leading to his disqualification from Eurovision 2024 was closed. However,...

A clubhouse went up in flames. It was saved by a Dutch icon found in every fridge

A fire broke out at a student rugby clubhouse in Rotterdam on Saturday afternoon. It could have been a disaster if not for a...

‘We make better wine in the Netherlands than in France’: Dutch wine gets confidence boost

Last month, wine from Twente received an official EU quality mark, confirming the trend of the Netherlands increasingly making a name for itself in...

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