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Tram Rules
The rules include:No food and/or Drink; No feet on the seat. Was wondering why the tram interiors are so clean and tidy when there are no trash baskets. How this is controlled: one may only board the tram via two entrances. One entrance at the front is next to the driving conductor, the other is …
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OlieBolen. These are Oliebollen. They are the donut-like-dough eaten on New Year’s Eve along with a couple of apple treats. Poffertjes are these round little pancakes sloshed with butter and powdered sugar; eaten all year round. You can stop at a ‘tent’ in the summer and order up a portion. Or easily make them stove …
Poffertjes
The report on these, slipped between the days of the Old Year morphing into New. These fried dough balls covered in powder sugar are traditionally served New Year’s Eve. One can buy them the entire month of December at various dedicated-to-poffertjes-food carts. Choose between with currents [small tight raisins], or not. They are often made …
Laundry Tips
Bought a box of wash treatment to better-a-sweater. The instructions: open the box, then open the bag, add the contents of the bag, the powder, to the washing machine with sweater. Wash for an hour long program. When finished, your sweater will look like new. The amazing part of this treatment was the page of …
Baby’s Breath
Had to sneak in a picture, it is such a happy plant.
Purses and Bags Museum
A small museum inspired by a couple’s hobby of collecting purses and bags. Knitting with beads to create an evening bag.
The Broom in the Pot of Baby’s Breath
Thank you E for putting me onto this…. This is a ceremony dating back to the 1600s and derived from Africa. Dating back to slave days, jumping the broom together has been part of weddings for couples who want to honor that tradition. It also has roots in the Celtic culture and including but not …
Valentine Day Offering
At the floral shop one of my favorite potted plants suddenly appeared: Baby Tears [Soleirolia soleirolii] or in Dutch “Luck-in-the-Bedroom”, [If you Google the name you find a couple of other cultures have given it some not-so-complimentary names.] I was excited to see it; however It was gussied up for Valentines Day. Stuck into the …
The Bad. The Poor.
It’s a Book Store: De Slegte. It was in business a long time ago and then it wasn’t. A terrific reunion to find it again in business after all these years. Browsed only the ground floor. The check-out clerk asked if I had gone upstairs. Replied I can only afford one-floor-a-visit. Having joined a book …