Lifestyle & Culture
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4.4KJackie Harding: Three new destinations, three happy returns as I plan post-pandemic travel
Travel seems so unrealistic at this stage of the global coronavirus crisis, and I’m, as I am sure are others, yearning to...
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3.2KExpat Essentials: New Splitcha app will let you shop online in any country
Okay, the pandemic has you trapped in a country far from home and you’re running out of stuff. The stores are closed....
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4.5KPutin’s People: Russian expat ‘journalist’ depicts host Netherlands as a dystopian hellhole
One of the weirder expat phenomena are expats who’ve come to free and affluent European countries such as the Netherlands from oppressive...
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6.4KLetícia Batista: ‘My clueless trip to Copenhagen in the middle of a pandemic,’ Pt. 2
(Editor’s note: See Pt. 1 of Letícia’s post here about her ill-fated trip to Copenhagen at the beginning of the pandemic.) Now...
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4.5KLetícia Batista: ‘My clueless trip to Copenhagen in the middle of a pandemic,’ Pt. 1
It all started about six months ago when I received an email with a great deal on tickets to Copenhagen. We bought...
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6.9KLives locked down: Seven expats in Portugal share personal stories from the pandemic
With the spread of the coronavirus around the world, many of us are dealing with complicated circumstances, including those who are far...
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11.5K2020 edition (updated): Dispatches’ list of the best music festivals in the Netherlands, Pt. 1
(Editor’s note: On 21 April, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that due to the pandemic, there will be no big shows...
