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Maastricht Minutiae "Expat experience in the tiny details."
Maastricht Minutiae is a blog and podcast about a young American couple living, working, and exploring Maastricht and all that the Netherlands and Europe has to offer. Life as an expat is a daily experience of new and sometimes confusing details.
Subjects include the experience of navigating a new culture, reviews of Places around Maastricht, impressions on holidays and events in and around Maastricht, travel around Europe, and good Dutch food. Plus there are tips for expats interested moving to and living and working in the Southern part of the Netherlands where many expat support groups and paperwork fail to reach. Red tape articles are focused on the paperwork process for American expats moving on a Knowledge Workers visa with a spouse.
The blog is written by Amanda Potter and updates a minimum of three times a week.
The podcast is presented by Dan & Amanda Potter. It updates biweekly. It can be found at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/47022
An expat blog, sharing expat experiences and cross cultural dilemmas. It also provides an expat tip daily to facilitate the integration into the local culture for the expats. You might be wondering about the name of this blog. Well, Orangesplaash signifies The Netherlands also known as Holland, a wonderful country in Europe. Orange is the color of the House of Oranje-Nassau that is the Dutch Royal Family. Therefore, it has become one of the country's proudest national symbols displayed in its full glory on occasions like the Koninginnedag (the Queen's Birthday).
This is an expat blog. Living as an Expat is all together a different experience, as any expat will vouch for. This experience evokes mixed reactions in an individual that range euphoria on discovering something new to loneliness on being a foreigner in a new land. In between these, is a wide canvas of emotions which I have aimed to bring forth in this blog.
This blog depicts my journey as an Indian Expat in The Netherlands, and aims at covering topics as diverse as the government registration, housing, health care, insurance, travel, tourism etc - issues that one faces after landing in the The Netherlands. In short, it outlines the nitty gritty details of living in The Netherlands as an expat.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy reading this blog and find it useful. Please give in your inputs via comments or emails, since I am really looking forward to knowing you too!! Hope to see you again.
I'm a native of Florida -- with time also spent in North Carolina, New York and New Orleans -- who has moved to the Netherlands with my Italian boyfriend, dog and two cats. I had never been to the Netherlands before the day I officially moved here. My blog is first and foremost a way for me to keep my family and friends in the United States updated on my new life and activities. It's also a place for me to look back and see how I've adjusted to this new life in a new country. I try to take a light-hearted approach to my blog, focusing on the small differences that make life here different to what I was used to in the U.S. I also like to focus on the funny and strange things that are bound to pop up no matter where you live. I'm also an amateur photographer, so most of my posts include at least one photo, often more, of the events, people or places I've visited. I have a degree in art history, so I tend to write about the architecture and history of the city, of which there is plenty! I also enjoy cooking, so I tend to include posts with discussion and/or recipes of Dutch favorites that I'm discovering and I discuss my quest to find certain food items that are not as readily available here.
Expatriates in the Netherlands For information and help on all expat issues and living abroad in the Netherlands.
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