Indian in Holland

The Dutch have a concept called 'covered' markets. Basically, these are the 'stalls' people put up to sell their wares in designated areas on specific days of the week. They are not very different from those weekly markets back in India. The difference is that a good number of stall owners bring their wares in big trailer trucks (maybe a couple of them pooling to save money), the markets are clean and they clear up the place before they leave. These markets are good to buy groceries and household items you do not find in the supermarkets (Albert Heijn, C1000, Lidl etc.). For items you regularly find in these stores (some common groceries, breads, eggs etc.) its advisable to purchase them in the supermarkets themselves. I am preparing a list of these weekly markets here. Please help me complete the list as I myself am not aware of all of them. Wednesday - Almere Centrum (not sure where, but I guess the same place as Saturday market) Friday - Somewhere in Almere Buiten, p...

For those who have recently moved here, or have not yet moved from pre-paid (pay-as-you-go) mobile phones to the post-paid (contract) phones, here is some relevant information. When I moved here, I was told that Lebara and Ortel (also Lyca) are the ones that offer the cheapest call rates to India. At least for the calls you make directly from mobiles, it is true. My friend here had Lebara but I found Ortel better. Each call had a start tariff of 7 cents and then there was a per minute charge. It was 12 cents to landlines, both local as well as in a few select countries (likes the US and UK) but the charges to mobiles were high. Charge to India is 21 cents. Even at that time, these charges seemed too high. And they were. I used to see ads of post-paid connections. They used to offer X minutes and/or Y SMSes per month. I was not sure if they were limited to calls to landlines or not (they include calls anywhere in Netherlands, though special numbers cost more). Also, I was not sure...