If at times you’ve had enough of medieval canal houses, tulip fields and picturesque villages, help is at hand. Decaying snack bars in The Hague, sad playgrounds in the north and gloomy blocks of flats everywhere – they might not feature in the guidebooks and the ‘how to settle in Holland’ handbooks, but they are, nevertheless, an integral part of …
The average selling price of an owner-occupied home in the Netherlands topped 300 thousand euros for the first time ever. In 2019 the average selling price for an existing owner-occupied home was 308 thousand euros, the first time this amount was over 300 thousand euros since the Land Registry started keeping track of average selling prices in 1995. With an …
Waterboards in the northern parts of the country have started closing dikes as a stormy wind blows across the Netherlands on Tuesday. The northern waterboards already closed the dike passages at Delfzijl and are monitoring all dikes, NU.nl reports. On Monday the Groningen water authority Noorderzijlvest already called on the public to stop using the dike at Delfzijl due to …
A councillor for the anti-immigration PVV in the Groningen town of Delfzijl has stepped down after being heavily criticised for saying on Facebook that fires at refugee centres should be put out with petrol. Emil Smeding responded to an article on the website of local broadcaster RTV Noord about a fire in the big refugee centre in Ter Appel. ‘Put …