🇳🇱 Snoezelpoes

Norsemen is pretty funny, I wasn’t sure after the first episode but I kept watching and it grew on me. I read that there is a Norwegian version as well, but Netflix being Netflix only hosted the English version unfortunately.

I also watched 1670, but speaking 0 Polish I felt some jokes didn’t land as well as they could have if I spoke the language

I should finally give it a watch after I’m done with my current series, looks like something right up my alley

ZeroZeroZero (2020)

🇮🇹 Drug crime, thriller, action-adventure

One of my favourites, it manages to intertwine several stories and locations quite nicely.

ZeroZeroZero follows the journey of a cocaine shipment, from the moment a powerful Italian cartel buys it, to its packaging in Mexico and shipment across the Atlantic. The journey is followed until final delivery and payment in Europe. At the same time, it sparks an epic power struggle throughout the chain, from local dealers to the most powerful boss in the hierarchy of international organised crime.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/92137-zerozerozero

The Day of the Jackal (2024)

🇬🇧 Action-adventure, thriller, spy, hitman

Super thrilling, every single episode had something going on and it had great characters all around.

An unequalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living by committing murders at the highest rate. But after his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who begins tracking the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse game across Europe, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/222766-the-day-of-the-jackal

Au Service de la France / A Very Secret Service (2015)

🇫🇷 Comedy, spy, cold war

Typical French humour, I really loved it. Easy to watch and I felt it made use of the spirit of 1960s France quite elegantly.

Paris 1960. 23-year-old André Merlaux is proud to join the French secret service - the best in the world. Under the strict supervision of his superior Moïse, André is trained by three elite agents to carry out the most delicate missions. He could become the best of the best, but he falls in love with the wrong person.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/64249-au-service-de-la-france

Kleo (2022)

🇩🇪 Comedy, spy, cold war

Great characters and I feel they mimicked the period style very well.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206010-kleo

Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter / Generation War (2013)

🇩🇪 War (WWII), drama

I thought this series is rather unique, because it shows the war from a German perspective and on a human scale, focusing on the individuals rather than the action.

Wilhelm, his younger brother Friedhelm, Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say goodbye in Berlin in the summer of 1941, promising to see each other again after the war. They do not know how long the war will last, let alone to what extent the unfathomable experiences, hardships and horrors will change them.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46849-unsere-mutter-unsere-vater

Eigen Kweek / Home Grown (2013)

🇧🇪 Comedy, drug crime

This one is mostly for a Dutch speaking audience I think, it has typical Flemish humour and lovely characters.

Home Grown tells the story of the Welvaert family, a family of sympathetic potato farmers from Heuvelland. Jos and Ria have two sons, Frank and Steven, who, to Jos’ frustration, show no interest whatsoever in growing potatoes. And then there is Geoffrey, a distant cousin they raised as their own son after his father was killed.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61519-eigen-kweek

After Life (2019)

🇬🇧 Dark comedy, drama

I think a lot of people know this one, full of dark British humour.

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/79410-after-life

I advice you to always watch comedies (or preferably any series) in their original language with subtitles

Mapy is great for hiking outside of Czechia and Slovakia, I use it a lot in the Netherlands! I had to stop using the navigation tough because I ran into some issues with it.

Oh that’s really neat, I didn’t know that, thanks

I fell in love with Mapy.cz (Google Maps alternative) It’s a wonderful replacement for Google Maps when you’re out walking or hiking.

I’ve had so many times that I trusted Mapy by walking down a path or alley that looked abandoned and/or prohibited, only to arrive at wonderful hidden places on the trail or in the city, free of any other traveller/tourist. Never got shivved either!

Every walkable path is on Mapy, hardened or not. And if it’s worth the trouble you’ll see the trail colours/codes next to the path so you don’t have to do any planning before walking. The app also let’s you track your route so you can see where you’ve been walking, how fast, how long, etc. And you can also download offline maps. The only thing I feel is flawed, is their navigation, which I prefer not to use.

I also love DeepL for translation, but there was a recent post about it, so I won’t mention it further.