Typical Henk

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Typical Dutch
Farewell interview with Henk van Ruitenbeek, illustrator for the Typical Dutch feature.

Typical Dutch: Mouth mask

Typical Dutch
Dutch getting lost in translation: a face mask isn’t a mouth mask.

Typical Dutch: Physically Dutch

Typical Dutch
'I needed to find out what their secret was – or at…

Typical (old-) Dutch – Chat while you swim

Typical Dutch
My friends always told me the Dutch like talking, but I was…

Typical (old)-Dutch: Mountains

Typical Dutch
I was like, 'This is not even a hill. How can you…

Typical Dutch: Important ‘dis’ words

Typical Dutch
Two important 'dis' words play an important role in Dutch life.

The smart bus

Typical Dutch
I had just arrived from Italy, where traffic and traveling is frenetic.

Typical Dutch: Quiche Hollandaise

Typical Dutch
Hongrui Cui arrived in Wageningen a few months ago. He notices some…

‘Just a cute little breeze’

Typical Dutch
The Netherlands is known for having unpredictable and cold weather.

Dinner time is sacred

Typical Dutch
Dutch people tend to have dinner early.