Matt Corr on June 12th, 2009

It’s been over 2 months since my last update,  so it’s about time I gave a  status update:
We were waiting for:

the New Zealand Police check
the Chinese Police Check.

In the last week of April we got the NZ Police Check, so that was good! We just had to wait that out.
Thanks to Ebe and [...]

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Matt Corr on March 29th, 2009

Several people have asked me what it was like in Holland. How it was different to Australia. So i thought I would do up a blog post highlighting the main differences I found.
Country
Basically it’s flat. Very flat. The only time I rose up was when we drove over a bridge occasionally. It’s a little strange [...]

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Matt Corr on February 9th, 2009

I am now back in Australia.
I am glad to be back, but I just wish it was under better circumstances and that Femke was with me.
After a great weekend at Scheveningen, sadly it was time to go.
On Sunday the 1st of Feb, we all drove out to Amsterdam airport. After checking [...]

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Matt Corr on February 8th, 2009

On the weekend before I left Holland, Fem and I decided to go away for one last weekend together. We went to Scheveningen which is on the coastline near The Hague. This is a very popular spot to go to in summer for it has some great beaches here.
We were staying in the Kurhaus which [...]

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Matt Corr on January 29th, 2009

Well. the last few weeks have been fun.
With all the paperwork in place, the only thing that was needed was for Femke to get a job with a 12 month contract. After the few remaining possibilities closed off to us one by one (some to our surprise too) we were out of options. I [...]

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