Samantha Dixon 🇦🇺

Sam has over six years experience writing about life in the Netherlands and leads the content team at DutchReview. She originally came to the Netherlands to study in 2016 and now holds a BA (Hons.) in Arts, a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and a Masters in Teaching. She loves to write about settling into life in the Netherlands, her city of Utrecht, learning Dutch, and jobs in the Netherlands — and she still can’t jump on the back of a moving bike (she's learning!).

Dutch supermarket shelves go empty while farmers do exact opposite of their jobs and block our food

Farmers have continued to protest by blocking supermarket distribution chains and honestly, we're just kinda done. Remember those empty supermarket shelves during the great...

PostNL gives up on “We missed you” notes (now will they actually TRY to deliver our damn packages?)

Our favourite mail company *cough cough cough*, PostNL, will officially stop handing out those pesky "we hebben je gemist" notes. The notes, which are...

This Dutch doctor is offering cheap, legal, and safe abortions to all US women

An abortion pill that can be ordered online, regardless of US state laws: this is the lifeline for many American women following the controversial...

The Real Housewives of Amsterdam is being launched and we. are. here. for. it.

The sun is shining, the temperature is warm — but none of that matters because the Netherlands is getting its very own Real Housewives...

Gun-wielding Peaky Blinders-dressed robbers attack Dutch art fair

A Maastricht art fair has been targeted by four robbers who used a sledgehammer to smash a display case. Bystanders say that one of...

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