Typical Dutch

Typical Dutch: Dutch curtains are always open

Typical Dutch
Dutch people’s curtains are hardly ever drawn, whether it is day or night.

Typical Dutch: Bricks but no mortar

Typical Dutch
Why are bricks so commonly used in the Netherlands, I wonder?

Typical Dutch: The Animal Ambulance

Typical Dutch
A huge ambulance for a tiny bird might be seen as a…

Typical Dutch: A tall guy and his big bike

Typical Dutch
Here I am, five-foot-two tiny me, sitting behind this six-foot-four guy on…

Finnish nightmares

Typical Dutch
When it comes to teaching methods, the Dutchies seem to be very…

Typical Dutch: The heavy handshake

Typical Dutch
Dutch smiles are mostly accompanied with a very heavy and serious handshake.

Typical Dutch: On first-name terms

Typical Dutch
It was shortly after I started my Master’s at WUR that I…

Typical Dutch: ‘You can always bake a cake’

Typical Dutch
‘Well…. you can always bake a cake’.

Typical Dutch: Fresh air is the Dutch medicine

Typical Dutch
There was no need for a drug prescription, we simply had to…

Typical Dutch: Working in the sun

Typical Dutch
My Dutch fellow students soon invited me to have our meeting… in…

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