Jul 06, 2026
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Your Dutch Retirement Is waiting
Discover what Americans need to know about trading their ZIP code for canal-side living and world-class healthcare.
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Love Netherlands
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Dear Netherlands,
Somewhere in the Netherlands right now, someone is pouring a pint of something dark — perfectly. Somewhere, a tulip field is waiting to bloom. Somewhere, a baker is sliding the first tray of stroopwafels onto the counter while the smell fills the whole street. The Dutch don’t make a fuss. They just make things the way their parents and their parents’ parents made them.
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In today’s email:
- Retire in the Netherlands: The Complete American’s Guide
- At The Café — In de Wildeman — Amsterdam’s Quietest Beer Cathedral
- Around The Web — The Dutch Words That Don’t Translate — and What They Tell You About the Netherlands, The VOC Trail: Following Your Dutch Ancestors to the East, Dutch Healthcare for American Retirees: What You Need to Know (2026 Guide) + more
- From Love Netherlands — Delft: Vermeer’s Quiet Canal City
- Dutch Food You Will Love — Tompouce — The Dutch Pastry Built Like a Sandwich
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Retire in the Netherlands: The Complete American’s Guide
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Retire in the Netherlands: The Complete American’s Guide Canals, world-class healthcare, a country built for cycling, and cities that feel like living museums — what Americans actually need to know before trading their ZIP code for a Dutch postcode. An introduction to retiring in the Netherlands There is a particular kind of envy that sets in during a first week in the Netherlands as a visitor. The cycling paths threading every city and village. The markets selling cheese and flowers on the same square. The trains that actually run on time. The hospitals that will not send you bankrupt. The bruin café where the barman speaks better English than most people you know back home. By the end of that first week, a great many travellers have started mentally rearranging their retirement plans. The Dutch are, by most international measures, among the happiest people on earth, and for good…
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At The Café
In de Wildeman — Amsterdam’s Quietest Beer Cathedral
In de Wildeman is hidden down an alley off the Nieuwendijk, a former 18th-century distillery turned proeflokaal — a tasting room. The room is dark wood, low ceilings, brass taps, and a wall lined with hundreds of glass bottles. There’s no music. No televisions. The menu has more than 250 beers including 18 on tap, and the staff genuinely know which one to put in your hand based on what you’ve eaten that day. Order a Trappist, take a stool at the back bar, and listen to a city you thought you couldn’t escape.
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Around The Web
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From Love Netherlands
Delft: Vermeer’s Quiet Canal City Where Dutch Golden Age beauty lingers in hand-painted pottery, leaning church towers, and the slow green light off the canals. An introduction to Delft There are cities that announce themselves with scale — skylines that overwhelm, waterfronts that roar, capitals that insist on their own importance. And then there is Delft: small, unhurried, and so quietly extraordinary that it stops you mid-stride. Tucked…
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Dutch Food You Will Love
Tompouce — The Dutch Pastry Built Like a Sandwich
A tompouce is two crisp layers of puff pastry sandwiching a slab of vanilla pastry cream, topped with a layer of bright pink fondant icing. It’s the dessert that signals minor celebration in the Netherlands — birthdays at the office, retirements, Friday afternoons. On King’s Day the icing turns orange instead of pink. The tompouce is impossible to eat tidily and the Dutch love arguing about whether you should attack it from the side with a fork or just give in and eat it with your hands. The official answer is: there is no official answer.
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