Jet-lag again. I love it. It means back in the ‘Dam soaking up the quaintness coupled with the wetness, the dampness, the shiver-me-timbers it’s winter in Amsterdam.
I have one adjective to describe my visit to To-Ron-To: COLD. It’s minus this, but FEELS like Minus that much colder. Spent an evening in Huron country, even colder, and that til May sometimes!
Nope, Amsterdam is better than Rawtenstall where rain and cold are concerned, so I choose for the Lowlands. Such a useful language too! Dutch, the language that’s been doing business with you for centuries.
A language purposefully crafted so you’ll never understand what they’re saying, besides which they’ll have gotten you drunk while they stay sober until the money is in their pockets. Then they’ll buy you a drink.
My favourite Dutch landmark is the Martinus Nijhoff Brug (Bridge).
i think the Dutch have as many words for water as the eskimos have for snow. (Simon Fox, 2005).
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