Harriet is responsible for most of the content of the website. She is 32, British, married to a Dutch man, and mum to Quentin and Evelyn. She has lived in Leiden for nearly 9 years, and frankly refuses to leave. She started an international parent and baby group when she was pregnant with Quentin, and is passionate about getting people in touch with each other, and creating support networks for people with small children. She loves having a house full, and hates people taking themselves too seriously

Harriet is an artist and translator when she has time, but in fact spends the majority of her time pretending to be a dragon and trying to hide vegetables in macaroni cheese.

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Alice is 40 and English; her husband is Dutch but was brought up all over Europe, so they can cherry-pick as they please from several countries' attitudes. She has four children aged two to eight, and works three days a week as a carbon emissions consultant for Shell. At work she enjoys the peace and adult conversation, and at home the semi-controlled chaos is a refreshing contrast. In her spare time Alice goes rowing, makes complex constructions out of Kapla, gardens her postage stamp-sized patch to within an inch of its life and spends a lot of time mending small bikes and dealing with muddy Wellies.