Christmas 2020 is like no other year before. But for the expats, internationals, expats and their spouses it even means staying in a foreign country in lockdown. Christmas is being celebrated differently across the world, but mindfulness and intimacy is what is common in almost all cultures. What do the internationals in Eindhoven organize during the holiday season? How do they cope with missing their family? And how do internationals perceive the Dutch governmental approach to managing to COVID outbreak?  

In this podcast, Jean-Paul Linnartz meets Chaitali Sangupta, a volunteer journalist and translator at EindhovenNews.com and Stephen Harianto of Radio4Brainport.org