Lifestyle & Culture
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4.6KPutin’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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6.5KLetícia 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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7.0KLives 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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11.6K2020 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...
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8.2KExpats in Spain: Will they stay or leave the country once the Covid-19 pandemic is over?
According to the latest statistic I could find which dates from 2018, approximately 300,000 British expats reside in Spain. The total number...
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8.3KJackie Harding: Trapped by coronavirus? Escape to a world of virtual entertainment
(Editor’s note: Dispatches isn’t posting travel pieces during the pandemic, because there are few places now for expats in Europe to go...
