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advice and information for expats moving abroad, including job search
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specialist employment agency for non-Dutch nationals in the Netherlands
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Maastricht-based recruitment agency
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Vodafone NL employment page. Based in Maastricht, employing 2800 people
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partner site to Brabantvac. Jobs in Limburg – based in Maastricht.
Author: graybo
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links for 2007-04-17
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AWOL
In case you thought I’d disappeared completely, we’ve been away in the Netherlands with no internet connection – which is a good thing, sometimes.
On our return, we appear to have been reduced to a single cat – Monty is nowhere to be seen, which is worrying. We asked a neighbour to pop round and feed them each day, which he has done superbly. Treacle is here and content, but there is no trace of Monty. He’s gone AWOL before when we’ve been away, but has usually turned up within 12 hours of our return – we’ve now been home for 14 hours and he has still to show himself. You can mark me down as “concerned”.
UPDATE: Ten hours after posting the above, Monty ambled in and demanded food with a "where the hell have you been?!" miaow. Much relief all-round, particularly as I’d already walked around Ruralville checking hedges, ditches and verges.
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Hulking Edward, not Graham
I read this headline and got entirely the wrong idea.
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Cash crisis
Brighton announce £2.2million trading loss. The pressure of being without a ground is really showing and surely the team can not continue in the long term with a strategy of survival-by-selling-the-family-silver (where family silver equates to the team’s best players).
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links for 2007-04-05
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Free-to-download Elite clone
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produce and sell maps of the Netherlands, including Stadsplattegronden (city street maps) and Regiokaarten (regional maps, generally by province). Site in Dutch, but easy to navigate for non-Dutch speakers.
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Another sporting ground crisis
With all the problems that Brighton and Hove Albion have had in securing a decent home for their team and fans in recent years, you’d think that the authorities in Brighton would have learned that they need to give more support to their local sports teams.
But it seems that that is not the case. Sussex County Cricket Club, a championship-winning team that is very active in the community, is having problems seeking permission to redevelop its Hove ground. Only the circumstances this time are slightly different. In the case of the football team, an asset-stripping owner and management sold off the family silver and nearly consigned the club to oblivion, leaving them desperate to obtain consent for a new out-of-town venue. In the case of the cricket club, the management are clearly keen to stay at their historic home in the centre of Hove, convenient for locals and public transport and an important part of the community. And yet the council seems reluctant to support them in this.
Ultimately, I think it quite possible that the cricket club will leave Hove. There has been talk of them moving to Crawley, which would certainly put them closer to visiting fans from Surrey, north Kent and Middlesex, whilst still being handy for trains from Brighton and Hove. Sale of the site in Hove would raise an enormous sum (and lead to not just redevelopment of part of the ground, but the entire ground). A new stadium in Crawley would be good for the club, but there would be one big loser – the city of Brighton and Hove.
It is time for the authorities to realise this and support their local sport teams.
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links for 2007-03-29
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all legal resident foreigners should be eligible for ID cards, which should save having to cart around one’s passport
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links for 2007-03-28
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Business cards with your own images on them. If only they offered a full-size card as well as the half-size ones.
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links for 2007-03-26
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Report neighbourhood “problems” such as graffiti, potholes, litter, fly-tipping, etc.
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