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!).

Here’s what NS thought 2020 would look like fourteen years ago

Superbuses, barrier-free highway exits to jump on a train, and hanging out in stations for the heck of it: the vision of NS of...

Dutch banks block accounts of dozens of American account holders

Are you an American in the Netherlands? Time to consider stashing cash under your mattress. Reports are emerging that multiple Dutch banks are blocking...

Companies across the Randstad targeted by ‘bomb letters’

Everyone loves receiving mail, with the exception of bills and, oh yeah, bombs. Yet, five different businesses across the Randstad have received bomb letters...

Man dressed in prison costume turns himself in for imprisonment

A man has shown up to his local police station in Arnhem dressed in an old-fashioned black and white striped prison suit, in a...

Happy Dutch New Year: fires, 15M in damages, and 58,000 kilos of illegal fireworks

The annual chaos of the Dutch New Year was as much as you could expect. New Years Eve is a purge of the regularity...

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