SERVING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY www.access-nl.org Expat Free for you to pick stories up live on 2018 Spring In this issue | New ACCESS website! | Nuffic Alumni Network | Amazing shifts | Visit Leeuwarden, this year’s European Cultural Capital | Archives around the world | Connect International | Parthian chicken | Setting the Standard NEW! The Little Castle International Day Care Sixth Zein Childcare location in The Hague region is now open in Voorburg! Offering an award-winning approach, luxurious homely environment & large natural playground. Zein’s unique Early Childhood Curriculum focusses on the individual needs of each child, providing a high level of care and fun filled programme in an internationally oriented nurturing learning environment – ensuring a smooth transition into school when the time comes… THE LITTLE CASTLE DAY CARE AGES 3 MONTHS - 4 YEARS OLD English speaking and a bilingual group Beautiful natural playground of +/- 4.000m2 with age appropriate play zones Large open central hall for indoor play Loving & experienced Early Years professionals with international backgrounds High staff to child ratio Vertical age grouping for siblings to be placed together Fresh organic warm meals and snacks prepared by the on-site chef Homely interior décor with wooden furnishings from Zein’s own furniture line Very high safety & hygiene standards Private parking and dedicated parents’ room with wifi connection Zein International Childcare • Day Care • Pre-School • After School Care • Holiday Camps Contact the friendly team for more information or to arrange a visit 070 326 8263 [email protected] zeinchildcare.nl 2018 SPRING.indd 5 2/13/2018 5:36:54 PM Letter from the editor Dear ACCESS readers Having a baby has triggered memories of my own childhood: favourite games and toys, various misadventures with my brother… I find myself wishing I had brought photographs and artefacts with me from my mother’s attic, to better reflect on where I come from and how I grew up. Raising a child in a foreign land is, well, foreign. Nowadays I look especially to my past to inform my present and to plan my family’s future here. For those of us who’ve moved around every few years, or settled permanently in the Netherlands, we struggle to make room for shoes and luggage—and bicycles!— let alone for boxes of memorabilia. It’s a luxury to store our personal memories. PHOTO: RUDI WELLS FOTOGRAFIE WELLS RUDI PHOTO: We’re fortunate, then, to have the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague. The cen- tre, celebrating its 10-year anniversary, collects and maintains archives from expats Mandie van der and internationals anywhere in the world. I encourage every one of our readers to Meer-Danielski contribute one story or one photograph to the collection. For as globalisation ACCESS Editor encourages mobility, future explorers will benefit from our stories, our lessons, our [email protected] lives. Find out how to share your tales in the cover story by Sarah Bringhurst Familia. So how and where does a country as far-reaching at the Netherlands keep its me mories? Pretty much all over the world! Alice Burke introduces us to just a few of the archives recording Dutch history and influence in the Americas, Australia, Indonesia and beyond. Jochem Lips explores the c hallenges of trans lating history in Arts & Entertainment. For our Food section, Stefan Future explorers will benefit from Penders cooks up an ancient Parthian chicken dish from the Romans, and there's exciting news our stories, our lessons, our lives from ACCESS at the centrefold! There’s much more in the pages to follow, so grab some oranje- koek in honour of Europe’s Cultural Capital Leeuwarden, and get reading! Finally, I offer big thanks Kelly Merks for the splendid work she did as interim e ditor of the magazine during my maternity leave. As Kelly and her husband soon begin their journey into parenthood, we here at ACCESS wish them great joy, and, naturally, meaningful memories, recorded carefully, to last many generations. ACCESS | SPRING 2018 | 3 About ACCESS Colophon For 30 years ACCESS has been an independent Publisher not-for-profit organisation serving Stichting ACCESS internationals so they may settle successfully Editorial content in the Netherlands. Our mission is to provide [email protected] essential, comprehensive and unique services Advertising nationally, through the expertise and 070 345 1700 [email protected] experience of our dedicated volunteers from the expatriate community. Editor Mandie van der Meer-Danielski Our magazine complements the services we ACCESS Magazine Assistant Editors provide through our Helpdesk, FAQ Guides, aims to be: Nancy Kroonenberg, Kelly Merks Counselling Service Network and Trainers • welcoming Network. Our intention is to further facilitate Design & Layout our readers’ settlement process in your new • informative Marek Moggré, M-space home, by providing content which helps you • educational better understand the country; discover • entertaining Printer things about it you may not have been aware • original Edauw en Johannissen Drukkerij of; encourage connection with your Dutch neighbours and colleagues; and offer con- Cover image tributors a platform to share your skills. Expatriate Archive Centre Contents images (clockwise) Have feedback for us? Interested in contributing to the magazine? Carmen Morlon, Warner Bros. Please contact the Editor at [email protected]. We love to hear from Entertainment Inc., Nederlands our community! Openluchtmuseum, Hans Jellema, Executive Board: Chairman: Gary Hays, Valshebnik Consulting . pikselstock Members: Koosje Ploegmakers, ABN AMRO - Godelijn Boonman, GMW Contributors Advocaten - Lowri van der Linden, the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, Pauline O'Brien, Council of International Schools. Alice Burke, Sarah Bringhurst Familia, Shimrit Florentin, Katarina Gaborova, 0900 2 ACCESS (0900 2 222 377) Cathy Leung, Jochem Lips, Stefan local rate 20c per minute Penders, Bob Powers, Karen Prowse, @ [email protected] Molly Quell, Deborah Valentine, Olivia van den Broek-Neri, and www.access-nl.org DutchNews.nl. Laan van Meerdervoort 70 - 1st Floor Join ACCESS on 2517 AN The Hague 4 | ACCESS | WINTER 2017 10 Spring 2018 Vol. 31 No. 1 Circulation: 4,500 Also available online at: magazine.access-nl.org Contents 19 7 What’s On for Spring 10 Cover Story A home for expat life stories 19 Reviews The Dutchman behind Dunkirk 20 Health & Wellbeing Amazing shifts 22 Arts & Entertainment The challenge of translating history 26 ACCESS News Our new website 29 Education Nuffic: enabling 22 graduates to stay 32 Dutch Lifestyle Corners of the world, tinted orange 36 International Community Connect International 38 Travel 6.5 Reasons to visit Leeuwarden 20 42 Food Ancient Parthian chicken 45 Humour from DutchNews.nl Copyright ACCESS 2018 All rights reserved. No part of the ACCESS Magazine may be used in any form without explicit permission in writing from the Publisher. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this publication was correct at the time of going to press. However, ACCESS and its writers cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy of the information included. 38 ACCESS | SPRING 2018 | 5 Settling in, simply. We’re here to make it easier for internationals to work and register in the Amsterdam area. Qualifying companies can start the paperwork before arrival and a single visit to International Newcomers Amsterdam (IN Amsterdam, formerly called the Expatcenter Amsterdam) will complete the process. What’s more, our website has loads of valuable information on a wide range of topics including education,taxes, healthcare and housing. The cities of Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Almere, Diemen, Haarlem, Haarlemmermeer, Hilversum and Velsen are working with the Immigration and Naturalisation Services (IND) to bring you the IN Amsterdam services. To learn more please visit: www.inamsterdam.com What’s On Special events in March International Theatre Festival Brandhaarden 2018 stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl/information-in-english 20 March - 1 April – Amsterdam Brandhaarden is an international annual festival organised by Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam honouring a single theatre maker. This year, theatre legend Peter Brook will be honoured. The Parisian Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord will take the stage with five differ- ent productions, a rare opportunity to enjoy their work right here in the Netherlands. PHOTO: MARK VAN SMAALEN VAN MARK PHOTO: The festival is meant to provoke thought about old versus new styles of theatre and the Paleo Time mix between them. Two of the productions are in English: “Battlefield,” which brings a peak scene from the Mahabharata into life, and “The Prisoner,” about a prisoner some- International Fossil Show where in the world whom we know nothing about. english.fossiel.net/beursede 10 March – Ede Come see, exhibit, sell or buy fossils in this rocking fair whose slogan is: “For fossil collectors by fossil collectors.” Here you can learn more about fossils and get the advice of experts, as well as exchange impressions with fellow fossil- enthusiasts. Entertainment and activities for children are also on the programme, so come have fun with the whole family. The Dark Animal Kingdom nhmmaastricht.nl/exposities/het-duistere- dierenrijk.html (Dutch only) R.FERNANDEZ JEAN LOUIS PHOTO: Through 6 May – Maastricht Seafood Festival ACCESS thanks our March facebook.com/seafoodamsterdam Discover the life of nocturnal animals— Volunteer of the Month, Shimrit animals who become