'I love the warm smell coming from the oliebollen trucks that announces winter'

'There is something very romantic about standing on a bridge, looking down a canal'

‘I stick to the Swedish way of always wearing a bike helmet!’    

'Complaining is deeply ingrained in Dutch culture'

'I do own one orange shirt that I wear on King’s Day'

'There is a buzz in Amsterdam, but also the stillness of the water'

'Left to my own devices, I’d eat at the snackbar every night.'

‘The Dutch are very practical, it feels like every problem has a solution’

'I don’t feel completely at home in either the US or the Netherlands'

'The Dutch are good at panicking in advance about the weather'