Mayte de Vries is program manager Sustainability at the Municipality of Almere, in the Amsterdam Area. In this interview she talks about circular economy, sustainability and the ‘Steiger Festival’ (Jetty Festival) in Almere, where entrepreneurs showcase their contribution to the development of circular economy. She also talks about the efforts of the municipality of Almere to turn itself into a sustainable green city. I interviewed Mayte together with co-host Dharminder Bihari during the LIVE radio show Easy Fm Expat Radio, which took place in the ‘Week of Circular Economy The Netherlands’.

In this episode of Expat Podcast The Netherlands an interview with Edwina Kannemeyer-Snelting and her husband Bert Snelting. Edwina is from South Africa. She came to The Netherlands to live with Bert. In this interviews she talks about her experiences as a ‘love-pat’ establishing a live in Almere, a city 20 km east of Amsterdam. I did this interview with Edwina and Bert together with co-host Dharminder Bihari during the LIVE radio show Easy Fm Expat Radio. We talked about how they met, cultural differences, Dutch ‘inburgering’, her work in The Netherlands and Tips for Trips.

Monica-Adriana Moga is originally from Romania and moved to the USA in 2001 following her husband’s work. She lived in Boston, San Francisco and New York. Then she moved to the UK. Later she came to the Netherlands to do a scholarship program in data analytics at Microsoft in Amsterdam. She first lived in Almere, 20 km east of Amsterdam and later she moved to Rotterdam because of a job opportunity.

She is about to leave to the USA again, to Florida, to start a new business in kitchen remodeling, together with a friend of hers. Just before her departure I got to speak with her about her experiences living in The Netherlands.