Category: welcome

Particularly in the States, everyone has a bunch of credit cards. In the Netherlands, credit cards are still pretty rare and unlike in the UK, Dutch bank cards cannot be used as a debit card online. They don’t have the 16 numbers and the other digits that you need to be able to use it…

Often very L O U D ! ! ! (in more ways than one)Also often pretty ridiculous or downright flabbergasting. Just sayin’.

Dutch people will often tell you that you MUST purchase an “OV chipkaart”. This is no longer the case. You can use your bank card (or your phone or your credit card). Tap it against one of these check-in and check-out screens that you see in and around train stations, metro stations and also in…