"I'm okay with herring, I am even ok with rain, 365 days a year"

"I’m a refugee here, but I have also become an immigrant"

"This country has given me space to become more than my work"

"I’m absolutely the person buying kruidnoten in July"

"We’re a true mix at home, four languages fly around our table"

"The Netherlands is innovative yet surprisingly traditional"

“Jimmies – hagelslag – go on ice cream. They don’t go on bread!”

"I love cycling in the evening sunshine when it is still warm"

"I found the freedom to be myself in Amsterdam"

"This place could be under water within the next century"

"As a child I was baffled by the way bridges open and cars stop"