D ear Britain, It's not you it's me. Actually that's a lie. It's a little bit you. Well, actually, it's a lot you. A...

I t struck me today that the whole Brexit thing is rather like the whole Sinterklaas thing here in the Netherlands - and there are lessons ...

I woke at 5am this morning and the first picture in my head was a map of the United Kingdom. The British referendum on the EU was weighing ...

A n amen to expats, to travellers, to the migration of people by one of the most famous expats who has made Britain his home, Bill Bryson t...

I n his latest book, Mr   Bryson works his way around Britain to see just how these isles have fared since his adventure twenty years ago wh...

Y ou can take a Brit out of Britain, but you can't always take the Brit out of the Brit....even when a Brit no longer lives in Britain....

I piled everything I owned into the back of a borrowed Dutch police trailer and moved across the North Sea to live in a country I knew littl...

I n September I will have been here in the Netherlands for fifteen years. Fifteen years. That's no mean feat, even if I do say so myself...

I  recently returned to England for a couple of days and for the first time in many years I actually flew. The idea was to fly to Southampto...

I have been living in the Netherlands so long now that I can no longer accurately compare life here with life in Britain. I have been wallo...

T he   words of Nelson Mandela's sum up perfectly a feeling that I grappled with for the first time a few years ago whilst visiting Engl...

I  wrote last week about how our Christmases have become a blend of Dutch and British ways of celebrating this festive period . Christmas Da...

I f you're not an expat, you should be. At least for a while. When I was a teenager, I planned to be an expat. A translator living in ...

I was a relative newbie expat in the Netherlands when I first formed my opinion about paying to use a toilet when I was out and about. Du...

S ix weeks came and went and the children are now back in school. The summer holidays flew by but we wrung every drop of fun we could out of...

M y offering for June is over on the fabulous Smitten by Britain website . This time I've put together ten things that I consider to be ...

T he Wimbledon Tennis Championships start today and so it is appropriate to share this once more: This is the ultimate illustration fo...

I was delighted to be asked by Bod for Tea to write about what it is like to raise children as a Brit in the Netherlands. It is only by...

T he images on television over the last few days have been poignant - commemorating D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Remembering all those ...

F or the last two summers, and a Christmas in between, my little family has made the trip from the west of the Netherlands over to the south...