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!).

Major traffic jams predicted this morning as farmers across the nation storm the Hague

Hold your horses if you're planning on travelling by car this morning. Thousands of farmers are expected to jam the roads with tractors and...

Best of DutchReview: 8 unmissable articles from September 2019

Whew, what a month DutchReviewers! We know that with all our really, really ridiculously good-looking content, it can be hard to stay up to...

Last bell: lack of teachers forces Amsterdam school to permanently close doors

A school in Amsterdam will wave a final goodbye to 111 students after being hit hard by the national teacher shortage. The Netherlands is...

Austrian couple receive €500,000 of ecstasy pills after buying clothes from Dutch online store

A internet shopping spree went wrong this week when an Austrian woman bought two dresses from a Dutch online shop. A few days later...

Van Dijk misses out, but Van Veenendaal awarded world’s best female goalkeeper!

The Dutch are good at two things: making cheese and playing football. Okay, maybe a few more, but the playing football part is definitely...

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