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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 (almost) 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!).

14-year-old stabbed in Rotterdam, two teenage girls arrested

A 14-year-old boy has been admitted to hospital after being stabbed in Rotterdam.  The incident occurred last night...

€2.4 million cash discovered in uninhabited Amsterdam house

Police recently discovered €2.4 million stashed away in an uninhabited house in Amsterdam. The cash was found alongside...

The Dutch coronavirus app: what you need to know

The Dutch coronavirus app, CoronaMelder, has begun public testing today. Several hundred residents of Twente will use...

Weather forecast: sun, rain and wind on the horizon

The rain is pouring, the wind is blustering, and the jackets are back out — that's right...

Second-largest bike garage IN THE WORLD opens in The Hague (see inside!)

Just in case you didn't already find it hard enough to locate your bicycle in the Netherlands,...

Coronavirus update: grim milestone as Netherlands crosses 50,000 infections

The RIVM reports that 96 people have tested positive for coronavirus today, bringing the Netherlands past the...

Unidentified Flying Pizzas: Dutch drone test proves pizza from the sky is a possibility

Pizza falling out of the sky (a la the cinematic epic Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs)...

US embassy apologizes, backtracks, after stating European tourists won’t be allowed in US before end of year

The US embassy in the Netherlands has done an about-turn, after telling radio station BNR that Trump's...