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Dutch Sushi
Cursor/32Long before it became hip and cool to be seen paying exorbitant prices to eat raw fish in tiny plates served by kimono clad waiters, the Dutch had already discovered the pleasures of uncooked...
Queen's Day
Cursor/30Last Wednesday was Koninginnedag, also known as Queen's Day, in Netherlands. Not to be confused though. Unlike what the name suggests, this is not when grown men put on dresses and make thems...
Ik Ben Spreek-ing Prima
Cursor/18Overheard in the IcTheek:“Hi dude, hoe gaat het with you?”“Huh, what did you say?”“I asked how are you in Dutch. I have my Dutch exam tomorrow, so I’m practicing.”“Oh, I see...
The Eindhoven Holiday Survival Guide
Cursor/15How to celebrate Christmas like the DutchPre - Christmas:Buy a Christmas tree as soon as Sinterklaas is over. Each year people seem to be more and more in a rush, afraid that the neighbours w...
Sinterklaas
Cursor/14Overheard, last week, a conversation between two foreign students on campus:“Hey, it’s the festival of Sinterklaas today.”“What’s that?”SinterklaasOriginally uploaded by DogfaelOr...
Fiets-ing Around
Cursor/12The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. The Dutch obsession with bicycles, for instance.There are a lot of bikes in Netherlands. In fa...
U Spreekt Nederlands?
Cursor/6Like most nationalities, the Dutch insist their language is a difficult one. It's also a funny language, as I've found out over the last few weeks in my Dutch for Beginners course.Apparently t...
Dutch Cuisine
I'm now a fortnightly columnist for Cursor, TU Eindhoven's weekly newspaper. The column below appeared the previous Thursday alongwith a real cool pic :-)Cursor/3For someone like me, who is perpetuall...