Celebrating its 50-year anniversary in 2018, the Australia New Zealand Club has the longest heritage of all antipodean community groups in the Netherlands. The club started well before the days of email and the internet, with a chance encounter in a Dutch post office in the late 1960s. One Australian, Read more
A big thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate Matariki on Saturday the 18th at the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. It was an amazing day for many reasons. We were blessed with beautiful weather, which is never guaranteed in this country. We had an extraordinary number of people Read more
This is the third post in a series that introduces and explains some of the different Kiwi groups & organisations that exist in the Netherlands to support New Zealanders and New Zealand business. New Zealand has always been a nation of explorers. At any one time around a million Kiwi, Read more
This is the second post in a series that introduces and explains some of the different Kiwi groups & organisations that exist in the Netherlands to support New Zealanders and New Zealand business. Are you a Kiwi business exporting into the Netherlands? You might not know it, but there’s an Read more
Being a New Zealand cricket fan in the Netherlands is not easy. Firstly, there’s the question of being able to watch cricket at all. Dutch free-to-air and paid broadcasters aren’t interested in televising even the most important games, and many of the online options can be frustrating, or just dodgy, Read more
Matariki may be an unfamiliar celebration for Kiwis living overseas. Many of us will know it as “the new public holiday”, to be marked this year on June 24th. But living away from New Zealand means that it’s sometimes difficult to understand the context and meaning of this new event. Read more
This post is the first in a series that introduces and explains some of the different Kiwi groups that exist in the Netherlands, and that you can tap into. Kiwis in Holland is the Netherlands’ most active online community of Kiwis. This longstanding Facebook group is the perfect place to Read more