Waited a loooong time for this to happen. Holland’s white asparagus are a taste unto themselves. It is not the same when you get them at Fresh Fields, Whole Foods or an other American grocery store. The fields are close by here. Heard from my information-rich neighbor that you can now purchase them ‘already peeled’. …
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An Icelandic Teenager
said regarding female equality in society: “We are demanding something that should have already been ours a long time ago. What a concise thought. Iceland is the #1 country for gender equality. If one gives it any thought, at all, how silly that the genders are not equal. And then extrapolate that to the entire …
Close to the Edge!
Shut the Front Door
Meet Your Neighbor
but certainly not in any conventional manner. There is no Post Office in Holland, subject for another time, but given this fact, mail delivery is carried out by various private companies, under contract. So, if your package can not fit through the standard small mail slot on your front door, [which is maybe two inches …
clarification:
understood the words of the advert. it was the body language that left me questioning what it was saying
A Wedding Dress Advert
Not certain what this exactly says. But it certainly is cause for pause. In the event one thought men and women might be equal. What I can say it is a store run by old white men
Men and Boats
The view out of the windows on the front of the house are of a small harbour hemmed in by two ‘lifting bridges’. exactly the sort you see in every Dutch print. But it is the men guiding their vessels to the open bridge I find entertaining. No difference whatsoever than men pulling up to …
OUCH- in September
It happened. Fell off the bike. Flat to the side, bike on top. Don’t know how many people saw it, certainly no one rushed to my aid, as I tried to extricate myself from under the frame. These Dutch bikes are bulky and heavy. The disaster was on the street outside my house, during a …