Has anyone actually done anything like this and knows how much the "havenkosten en afhandelingskosten" are? I am bringing more than I can send by TPG and so I am considering shipping my stuff. I figured out that it would cost me €600,- to ship my stuff to Chicago and pick it up there myself. And it's €1130,- if I have my stuff shipped all the way to where I'm going to live. According to the quote I was given, "douanekosten (inklaring, evt taxes & duties)" are never included so I'd have to pay those extra anyway. If the "havenkosten en afhandelingskosten" are anywhere near €500,-, I might as well have my things shipped all the way to where I'm going to live and not bother driving the 4 hours to Chicago to pick up my stuff.

hi Imtay,

My passport and sealed envelope was returned to me in an envelope they had provided. I just brought the envelope seperate of the postage and they didn't need the envelope but used the postage. Whenever you ask for postage for aangetekende post at the postoffice you will get a sticker good for up to 5 kg. I can't remember the exact amouth but something like E 6.65

Thanks Letty! That really helps.

Hey peeps!

Just wanted to check in again and say HI to everyone.
I really start missing hanging out with Dutch speaking people. Ofcourse I talk to my family on the phone at least once a week, but I just really miss actually hanging out with people that speak Dutch.
Did anyone else feel like this after they lived in the States for a while?
I tried to find people here in Florida but that didn't really work out well. There were some really really old people (in their 70's) that I found that live about 2 hrs from Panama City. But that is not what I was looking for.

I talked about it with my husband and we would like it a lot if there were Dutch-American couples that would like to hang out at the Gulf of mexico for vacation and maybe visit us for a little bit. You are welcome to stay with us instead of staying at a hotel. PM me if you want. I am not working yet, so I have a lot of free time on my hands.

Lynn

Thanks for the invitation, I'll keep it in mind whenever I make it over to Florida! I lived in de States before (1.5 year in 2004/2005) and started to really miss talking to Dutch people and it started to get harder to actually remember Dutch words what sometimes got embarrassing on the phone with my parents. I started watching the " NOS journaal" on the internet every day just to hear some Dutch but still that didn't help to much to talk to someone whenever you want to.

I'll try to teach my husband Dutch but that's not to much of a success but hopefully one day we can talk to each other!

Letty

Hi Imtay,

Just wander how things went in Amsterdam today???!!!!!!

Letty

Hey Letty

sitting at Leidseplein, toasting a successful interview with a pint of Guinness... We're approooved!!! So happy! Thanks for enquiring... More later!


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Congratulations on your visa!! Must feel awesome to have it in your hands

i also miss to speak dutch. Sometimes I get lucky and get a Dutch tourist in the store and I can talk story for a bit, but yeah not much Dutchies on Maui

Thanks Jeroen! : ) It indeed does... and now comes the hard part -> disposing of most of my worldly possessions... Marktplaats and Speuders here I come ; ) Good luck on your journey!

I should be on your neighbor rock in about 3-4 months I think, so I might drop by some time ^^

edit: btw, this reminds me.. last year when I was on Oahu, we went to PCC one day and attended a luau there and guess what.. there's like hundreds of people there and out of all people I am sitting next to a Dutch couple who had their honeymoon there haha, talk about a coincidence.



Thanks and yeah, I know what you mean... I started to get rid of my belongings bit by bit, sorting things out that I don't want to have anymore and putting them on Ebay and Marktplaats, sending stuff from time to time to my new home and so on. It's mostly stuff I could live very well without, just in case

But yeah, I took a few looks around my place last weekend and started to feel a bit sad when I saw some stuff which wont be able to bring along. It is indeed a very hard part of the journey :/

And i will probably hop to your rock from time to time as well. Think i will get some jewelry partys to do there. And ofcourse when i need my shopping fix ;-)

Hehe good... I'm glad it wont be the last time for me that I'll hear some Dutch around me when I move there xD

...speaking of which, how come we all speak in English in this thread? I've noticed they speak their own lingo in some of the other country threads..

hahaha Goeie vraag Jeroen! Waarom schrijf je vanaf nu niet Nederlands... We zullen wel zien wat er gaat gebeuren, maar ik verwacht dt het niet lang duurt voordat alles weer in het engels gaat. Hier een voorbeeld van hoe snel het kan gaan als je iets in het Nederlands schrijft en antwoord krijgt van N.B. Nederlanders

we schreven in het engels omdat sommige van onze SOs hier ook mee lazen en reageerde en zij alleen engels spreken.

LOL! Dat is echt heel erg snel gegaan, we hebben dus nu al een record verbroken haha xD


Hmm.. dat verklaart een hoop.. oh well, we kunnen weer Engels gaan praten als er behoefte aan is maar goed, maybe is dat niet nodig en kunnen we de Nederlanders die al weg zijn uit het koude kikkerlandje toch nog een beetje Nederlands te lezen geven

BUMP!!!

Hey Jeroen! Ik zie dat je je visa hebt. Gefeliciflapstaart!
Het is zo ontzettend rustig hier...
Oh well...

heeft er iemand hier kids die in de US zijn geboren? Ik ben momenteel 14 weken zwanger en begin me nu af te vragen hoe ik mijn kind een NL papoort kan bezorgen. Ik heb er totaal geen zin in om helemaal naar Orlando of Miami te reizen dus als er andere manieren zijn hoor ik het graag. Ik ben van plan om als de kleine een paar maanden oud is naar Nederland te gaan om daar mijn ouders te bezoeken. Zij zijn niet in de gelegenheid om naar hier te komen ivm gezondheid. weet er toevallig iemand of ik in NL een paspoort voor mijn uk kan aanvragen terwijl we daar op bezoek zijn?