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Try an oliebol and celebrate Dutch New Year’s traditions
If you’re in the Netherlands during New Year’s, you’re in for a treat—literally. One of the highlights of Dutch New Year’s celebrations is the oliebol, a delicious snack with a fascinating history and cultural significance.
Discover the Netherlands this summer: Tips for expats
If you are an expat, summer is the ideal time to explore the Netherlands. There is plenty to do all over the country, and you will get to pick up a thing or two about Dutch culture and history. Read on for tips for an unforgettable summer in the Netherlands!
Typical Dutch holiday habits: A guide for expats
You will encounter Dutch people in every corner of the world. You would think that says enough about the wanderlust of the Dutch. But not every Dutch person is an intrepid explorer. Most of them are rather set in their ways, with habits that are not quite as adventurous as you might think.
Delicious Dutch Festival Snacks
The time of carnivals, fairs and festivals is here. That means soaking up the sunshine and atmosphere with all kinds of people around you and the smell of delicious snacks drifting through the air! The Dutch are crazy about international snacks like churros, Vietnamese spring rolls and Belgian waffles. That said, there are fortunately plenty of typical Dutch snacks as well. Try them all this year!
Highly rated Dutch training courses
Regina Coeli’s intensive training courses are highly rated. In 2023, the training received an average rating of 9.2 (on a scale of 0 to 10). The teams of trainers were even given a 9.4.
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Every year, more than one quarter of the world’s population will celebrate the Chinese New Year (new is “Xin”; year is “Nián” in Mandarin pinyin). Chinese New Year -also known as the Spring Festival- is celebrated on the second new moon after the Winter Solstice and can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. New Year festivities traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest.