Other (Better?) Dutch Blogs

This morning I was researching a new article I want to post soon and stumbled across another (dare I say better) Dutch blog.

http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/
Read their about page, very witty. It's written by someone not native to Holland but who lived there for 7 years (Slightly Jealous) and geared towards a more humorus view. I have never visited. I only read articles and watch documentaries on the country. Makes this little blog we do sound weak and uninformed....

http://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/
This is the one I've been reading. More geared toward learning the language but also very imformative.

I've linked you to these because (obviously) I'm not allowed to straight copy from their blogs (even if I wanted to) without contacting them for permission and even then, I can only use 10% of what they wrote.

Moral of the story. We'll keep plugging away here on All Things Holland but if you want honest to goodness firsthand knowledge check out these other sites. I should add a subtitle (as told by someone who no first hand knowledge, only what others tell him).

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