Dutch Impressions: New Topics To Write About
Dutch Impressions: Experiencing The Netherlands - past, present and beyond.. (since December 1979)
So, this theme I’ve been writing about is proving to be a lot of fun. Looking at a place you’ve been living in for more than 25 years and coming up with the right idiosyncracies you want to descibe, can be a bit difficult sometimes. Still have enough topics, but I thought it’d be interesting to turn it around and ask a native Dutchman living abroad about this funny little country.
So I asked my pal FlowerChild for input, he left Holland more than six or seven ten years ago, spent some time in the US and is now enjoying the life London-style. Here’s an edited version of his mail:
- Uhm, the Dutch feeling absolutely much better than any other civilization in the world.. It does have the best cheese tho, and who can say no to a syrup waffle.. [Another] one is of course complaining about something.. or saying no to new ideas.. authority has no value..
- The Dutch and their Caravans, the laughing stock of Europe, in the Summer month our neighbouring countries are anticipating the yellow wave (the Dutch number plate)
[thx, I really was worried you meant something else
- frenchy!] - David Sedaris has a great piece or writing about Sinterklaas and 6 to 8 Blackmen, I have the CD and will send you that the moment we unpack all the books, might take a month or 2, need to build the bookshelves first.
- The growth hormones in the dairy products and being the tallest nation?
- The great divide in a small country with religion and Carnival.
- Weather forecast with 8 different symbols placed over Holland on the daily news, while in other countries the one and same weather symbol will cover areas much larger than the whole of the Netherlands.
- Dutch Movie is only Dutch when in the first 5 minutes naked people have been shown.
[yep, always some nudity or softcore pr0n - frenchy!] - Dutch Beers, small with foam.
- The Dutch driving license is on pink paper, that always gets an interesting frown with foreign police.
- The Dutch are a laughing people, good natured and especially handsome: If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t Much..
back to the beginning of my list.. (I just wrote a Boolean)
[just go google the word, people - frenchy!]
Well, for me that’s a great addition to my list of topics, thanks, FlowerChild!
