My stories about living abroad, and other things I find interesting or useful
Oct 4th, 2008 by Jeroen
This week I won’t write to you about something French but rather something that I experienced this week. Last Wednesday I had to go to Rotterdam. I arrived at Rotterdam station, after my 3 hours in the high speed train. Let me tell you what I realized… Continue Reading »
Sep 25th, 2008 by Jeroen
I thought I’d just share some more language mistakes I have made the last couple of months. Again perhaps not suitable for our younger readers but very necessary for our older ones. To prevent mistakes alike 
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Sep 14th, 2008 by Jeroen
It is true, there is customer service in France, if you know where how to get it . We ordered furniture in IKEA and this is how we got customer service. There are more examples of this trick working.
Sep 14th, 2008 by Jeroen
I have driven in several countries now. Every one of them being different. Let me just give you my observations.
Sep 4th, 2008 by Jeroen
This story you will find in may books about France, it’s about the French and their food. But because it’s such an important one I name it here as well with the addition of a small analysis.
Aug 17th, 2008 by Jeroen
Whenever you have to move to France you have to learn the language. As I do not have any barrier to communication I just go out there and try. In doing so I make mistakes. I’ve written some of these mistakes below, beware not suitable for our younger readers Continue Reading »
Aug 15th, 2008 by Jeroen
We bought a car in France in July. It’s a peugeot 307. We found it through www.lacentrale.fr. We had to buy a car to go to the Netherlands the first weekend of July. So we were in a hurry and we didn’t have a car to go see other cars. So we were restricted to the surroundings of our place. We found and looked at 2 cars. The funny thing was that both owners gave us a very extensive demonstration of every aspect of the vehicle. Something we weren’t used to in the Netherlands. Down to the very buttons to light a cigarette. Then the bureaucracy began…
Welcome to my blog. My wife and I moved from the Netherlands to Paris on 30 May 2008. On this blog I write about our our impressions and things we experience.