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Dutched Up!: Rocking the Clogs Expat Style Kindle Edition
There is one thing we can guarantee about this book. If you have ever lived in the Netherlands, at least one story in it will resonate with you. In all likelihood, there are a lot of stories that will sound familiar and have you nodding your head in agreement or shaking it in shared frustration. This book will help you appreciate the many moments of beauty, learning and growing.
Dutched Up! is a collection of tales by some pretty amazing women who have learned to rock their clogs, expat style.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 9, 2014
- File size1.5 MB
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- ASIN : B00PFVFE28
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- Publication date : November 9, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1.5 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 232 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,314,818 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #175 in Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg Travel
- #940 in Family Travel
- #2,891 in Family Travel Guides
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About the authors
Ute Limacher-Riebold is a multilingual researcher, writer, speaker, coach and consultant for internationally living families at https://UtesInternationalLounge.com.
She published numerous articles on French and Italian medieval Literature and Linguistics.
Ute has published the monographies "Entre Novas et Romans. Pour l'interprétation de Flamenca" (Edizioni dell'Orso). "Le salut d amour provençal: observations sur l'évolution du genre" (Universität Zürich), as well as many articles about the Italian medieval poet from the 14th Century Antonio Pucci (1310-1388).
She is Co-Autor of "La circulation des nouvelles au moyen-âge, Actes de la journée d'études" (Edizioni dell'Orso, University of Zurich, 24 January 2002) and Co-Editor of the "Revue Critique de Philologie Romane", published at the Romanisches Seminar at the University of Zurich, which contains exclusively scientific articles and reviews in the field of Romance Philology and is written in multiple languages (German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romantsch).
Books by Ute Limacher-Riebold:
–"Entre Novas et Romans. Pour l'interprétation de Flamenca" (1996) (Edizioni dell'Orso)
–"Dutched Up! Rocking the Clogs Expat Style" (2014)
–"How to raise confident multicultural children" (2020)
–"The Toolbox for Multilingual Families" (2020)
She has contributed to the following books:
–"Finding Home. Third Culture Kids in the World" Rachel Jones,
–"This Messy Mobile Life" by Mariam Ottimofiore
–"Third Culture Kids. The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds" by Ruth E. Van Reken, David C. Pollock and Michael V. Pollock (2017)
–"Multilingual is Normal: An Anthology of Voices, Talking About Talking (English Edition)", Cate Hamilton (2020)
Ute Limacher-Riebold PhD grew up in Italy and lived in Switzerland, Italy and France before moving to the Netherlands in 2005 where she lives with her Swiss German husband, three children and dog.
She writes about the following topics: Multilingualism, Intercultural Communication, Third Culture Kids etc.
(https://UtesInternationalLounge.com)
Lynn Morrison lives in Oxford, England along with her husband, two daughters and two cats. Born and raised in Mississippi, her wanderlust attitude has led her to live in California, Italy, France, the UK, and the Netherlands. Despite having rubbed shoulders with presidential candidates and members of parliament, night-clubbed in Geneva and Prague, explored Japanese temples and scrambled through Roman ruins, Lynn’s real life adventures can’t compete with the stories in her mind.
She is as passionate about reading as she is writing, and can almost always be found with a book in hand. You can find out more about her on her website LynnMorrisonWriter.com.
If you want to chat with her directly, join her Facebook group - Lynn Morrison’s Not a Book Club - where she happily talks about books, life and anything else that crosses her mind.
Follow Lynn on the internet at:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NomadMomDiary/
Twitter - @nomadmomdiary
Instagram - @nomadmomdiary
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/nomadmomdiary
BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lynn-morrison
Zoë is an English woman living in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband, a lethargic Spanish greyhound and a Machiavellian toddler. Out to prove that the mums that create pinterest worthy bento lunchboxes or adorable hand-sewn toddler outfits in the space of a 40 minute nap are dirty liars. Come for the eye rolling grammatical fails and stay for the crappy instagram photography, and her latest illustrations. What more could you ask for? P.S. She enjoys the swears.
An American journalist based in the Netherlands.
I'm Deepa, a Filipina storyteller, mother and wanderer who blogs about family, travel, home, creativity, and life in Amsterdam.
MY BLOG
Currystrumpet is where I live my life and write down the story as it happens.
In addition to Amsterdam, motherhood, home and travel, I also blog about creative projects from time to time. In addition to my work as a freelance writer and producer working in creative services for international brands, I dabble in watercolor, hand lettering and the occasional DIY.
MY PHILOSOPHY: LIVE NOW, WRITE LATER
I love life and I love writing. I love to discover new things about the world; they often lead me to discover new things about myself. I love details; they escape us so easily, don’t they? I love words, and I love the challenge of searching for just the right ones.
Each day, I try to wander a little bit further. Dream just a little bit bigger. Be just a little bit different. And doing that gives me just a few more stories to tell.
I believe in doing it now, making it fun, and keeping it real. Then writing all about it when I finally have a moment to myself.
Go out and create; come home and capture. Live now, write later.
MY STORY
Things have changed since I first started blogging in 2004. I’ve gone from a fresh grad with a boring desk job, to a producer in creative services for television, to a freelance writer and work-at-home mom.
I also went from being a girl in a long-distance relationship to a happily wed wife. After getting engaged in Paris, I married my best friend and ultimate travel buddy Marlon in 2007, and relocated to Singapore to begin our new life together.
In 2011, Marlon and I left our careers in Singapore to move to Amsterdam, fulfilling a lifelong dream of living in Europe. We bought an apartment on a quiet canal on the fringes of Amsterdam's city center. And in March of 2013, we welcomed our daughter Tala to the family.
I'd love to hear from you! Email me at deepa@currystrumpet.com, follow me on Twitter or Instagram (@currystrumpet), or search Currystrumpet on Facebook for updates.
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Catina is a former southern belle living out the adventures of being a mother in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has two Dutchlings which inspire her to write about their adventures down the winding path of motherhood.
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Aislinn (Ace) Callahan-Brandt is an American expat living in the Netherlands with her husband, son, and two crazed cats. She blogs at Life in Dutch to share her experiences as an expat, traveler, and parent, and whatever else comes to mind; and she is a contributer to Dutched Up: Rocking the Clogs Expat Style.
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Rosalind is the writer, expat and blogger behind the no longer existing blog Tales from Windmill Fields and Two Little Monkeys in Breda where she stroopwaffles about the Netherlands along with a cup of British tea and Spanish music. She has also been featured on many websites and publications including The Telegraph and Access magazine. After moving to France with a backpack, she picked up her husband at the Arc de Triomphe and found herself 10 years later, moving to the Netherlands with a container full of stuff, a dog, a cat and a daughter. Now 5 years later she is still in the Netherlands, has had another child here, so has experienced and is experiencing everything Dutch child related, one of the reasons why she set up Breda Monkeys for families in the Brabant area.
Shivangi Sharma is the bestselling author of "I Made a Booboo" (motherhood humour) and co-author of Dutched Up, named a top travel book by The Wall Street Journal. She writes everything from poetry ("Time to Come Home") to pun-filled children's books like "Burger Planet" and "Pizza Planet", part of her wildly funny Hungry Way series. Shivangi lives in Amsterdam with her family in a house overflowing with books and ideas.
Instagram @creatreebooks
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Amanda is an author, writer, translator and blogger. Her latest work is ‘How to Raise a Happy Sensitive Child’. She has been writing about parenting highly sensitive children and parenting as a highly sensitive person for over a decade Happy Sensitive Kids.
Amanda studied at the London School of Journalism (Diploma with distinction) and completed a HSP Coach course in 2023. Her previous books include “101 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Empty Their Bucket: Calming Tools During Times of Overwhelm“ as well as contributing to expat anthologies Dutched Up! Rocking the Clogs Expat Style, Once Upon An Expat and Knocked Up Abroad Again. She also translated the children’s book “Langmuts is een Held” from Dutch into English, a book written with highly sensitive children in mind.
She’s British born but made the Netherlands her home in 2000. She scribbles about her life in the Netherlands at Turning Dutch. She lives with her three teenage Dutch sons who are tinged with Britishness, a pure bred Dutch husband, two cats and two rabbits. Despite having dual nationality, she hasn't exchanged her shoes for clogs, munches no more cheese now than she did in England and still refuses to host Dutch birthday circles in her home.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016This was definitely interesting. Many of the stories and cultural elements were relatable to me as an expat in France. (Or am I really an expat if I'm here for life?). But there were so many other cultural elements that were 100% Dutch and it was fun to discover all of them, from riding bikes, coffee dates, pregnancy, language... If you like visiting other countries vicariously, you'll love this anthology.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2025My husband and I lived in Best, The Netherlands, one year with our green and yellow bikes. They were never stolen, but I gave up using the two child seats on my bike (one with a tiny windshield for the baby) for a red and white double stroller. That was never stolen, either, but at least I never crashed. Walking worked just fine.
These enjoyable and humorous stories brought back many memories!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2015I am an American living in NL. While reading, I mumbled to myself many times and laughed at the familiar. Read this if you are in the NL. or will be soon. You need a mention of the candle tray in most all Dutch households and the lanterns in the windows. (Cozy, I now have both)
- Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015The Netherlands was never really a place that fit in my horizon. It was a place I knew certain things about that most people know too but there was nothing that really made it special to me. Till I read this book.
A collection of essays by expat bloggers in The Netherlands opened my eyes to how tall the Dutch are, how complicated their language is, how blunt their words are, how they steal bikes left and right, how their doctors don't really want to see you, and how stress and worry free they are when it comes to their kids.
The book also showed me the realities of expats in a country that is totally alien from their own. I loved the diverse voices and how so many different countries were represented. I even enjoyed guessing what country the blogger came from based on how they wrote - the Americans and British have a distinct way of writing and I don't just mean how differently they spell their words from each other.
Now I definitely want to visit this country! And I feel my horizons have definitely broadened after reading this collection!
I only gave it a 4 because not all essays were as good as the others, but most were very interesting!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014This is an amazing book to read. It is entertaining, informative and very well written. The 4 women put together a collection of stories about their experiences in such a way it makes you feel like part of it.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014Great book from great authors! Very insightful and well written!
- Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014What is it about?
Various female bloggers from the North America, Australia, the UK, the Philippines, India, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Greece and Nigeria share snippets from their lives as expats in the Netherlands. With topics ranging from the ubiquitous bikes to the Dutch obsession with “doing normal” to food and shopping, birthdays, doctors and even childbirth.
Who is it for?
For any expat that is thinking of or has already joined their Dutch partner here or is thinking of coming to the Netherlands to live. Personally, I would read the book before coming and probably not understand a lot of it (for example most of the Dutch language references are not translated) and then read it again after I have been here a while and then TOTALLY get it!
Who wrote it?
A list of the authors can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/Dutched-Up-Rocking-Clogs-Expat-ebook/dp/B00PFVFE28/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415867516&sr=8-1&keywords=dutched+up+kindle and at other sites selling the book. They are all female bloggers with existing sites and I like that the book lets you know about their blogs, so that if you are more interested in crocheting or food or being a (young) mother in the Netherlands, or any of the other topics they specialise in, or just if you enjoy one of the writing styles more than the other, you know where to go.
What did I think of it?
Although it is a good book for dipping into, depending on what topic you want to tackle that day, I read it in one go in a morning and literally laughed out loud , cried, tut-tutted and just recognized so much. Although the book touches on the standard “circle parties”, Dutch “directness” and of course biking, and the “gggggggggggg sound”, it manages to escape the clichés and by providing such personal stories, it gives a fresh take on things.
All the writers are female and as far as I can tell the vast majority are mothers which tends to slant the book ‘s take on things a bit.
The writing styles vary (although the overall quality is very good), which makes it more personal and also allows for everybody to find something that appeals.
If you are feeling a little lost and alone as a “foreigner” to the country this is a wonderful book full of others who “get it”. Even if you are fully dutched up and rocking your own clogs in a big way, you will be able to have a good laugh and a cry over this book and maybe be introduced to some fabulous new blogs to follow at the same time.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016The book provides real life examples of what to expect living in the Netherlands and having gone through cultural orientation training just makes the book more humorous.
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- MarmotaReviewed in Brazil on March 24, 2025
2.0 out of 5 stars jessus crist
Every one had a freaking baby in Nl. I just wanted to read something more than, i had a baby, bla bla bla
- Clara WigginsReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Would make a great gift for anyone moving to the Netherlands
Although I have never lived in the Netherlands, and at the moment have no intention to, I loved this book for its honesty about expat life. Some of the articles were very particular to Holland, some were more about expat life in general - but all of them made me laugh and gave me great insight into living the Dutch lifestyle as an alien. I really loved the articles about making friends, and chuckled at the "leech" (who hasn't encountered a leech somewhere in their expat life?), as well as the stories about shopping and giving birth.
I am also a little bit jealous. I have moved to several different countries as an expat, and about to move again, but have never had such a useful reference book to help me find my feet. This would be an excellent gift for anyone about to make the leap into expat life in the Netherlands.
- JJRReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
If you've ever lived in Holland worth a quick read. Some of the stories made me laugh out loud.