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mvansand76

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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2006, 09:40:38 am »
Quote from: Pipedream on July 10, 2006, 09:24:22 am
He was a great showmaster and entertainer and certainly one of the most successful dutch exports in Germany!
Sadly, he passed away last friday. It was in the news today.  :'(


 :'( You are sooo right... I was very sad to hear this!

Aaaaah...
Clogs
Tulips
Windmills
Camping....

Yessssss  8)
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2006, 09:41:37 am »
Quote from: isabelle on July 10, 2006, 07:08:36 am

I also say... flat country, below sea level (a bit dangerous  ;D), canals, tulips, free people (legal to smoke pot); also, disquieting (to me) acceptance and exhibition of prostitution, and friendly people (I have met a few Dutch).

We ARE friendly people... at least the Dutch on this board...
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2006, 10:17:21 am »
I recall hearing that the Dutch are, on average, the world's tallest people.

And I think of a cellist I once knew....
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2006, 10:50:04 am »
Quote from: mvansand76 on July 10, 2006, 07:03:41 am
Hi all!

I used to work for the Amsterdam Tourist board here in... well.... Amsterdam and got all these funny and somewhat strange comments from tourists about Holland, the stereotypes, the jokes...

Therefore, I would like to ask you...

When I say Holland, you say....

Cheese!  ;D

Edam. Gouda. It's all good!  ;D
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2006, 11:03:51 am »
I think of this excellent and amusing series of travel stories I read on Slate about Amsterdam. I especially loved the second one, about the concept of gezellig.

http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2006, 11:14:54 am »
Wooden shoes, tulips, windmills, all those stereotypes I get, but. ...

Camping?   ???
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2006, 11:19:49 am »
...I think of all the things the others have said. 
We toured through the Netherlands (and Belgium) with the motorbike ages ago.

Three more things are in my mind, which weren't mentioned before:

- Bicycles: lots and lots of bicycles. A well developed net of bicycle lanes at a time other countries just started thinking about them (late 80ies). And a toddler and his parents we met on a camping ground (where else?). The boy must have learned walking only a short while ago, he still was insecure on his legs - and the parents put him on a bicycle.

- No curtains: Little red brick houses without curtains at the windows. You could look inside almost every house.

- Drugs in Amsterdam: We got offered everything openly on the streets.

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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2006, 11:20:44 am »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 10, 2006, 11:14:54 am
Wooden shoes, tulips, windmills, all those stereotypes I get, but. ...

Camping?   ???

Yes, they love to camp. You wouldn't believe how many cars with "NL" license plates we saw hauling trailers in Norway last summer.
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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2006, 11:23:06 am »
A sad thought




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Re: When I say Holland....
« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2006, 11:28:00 am »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 10, 2006, 11:14:54 am
Wooden shoes, tulips, windmills, all those stereotypes I get, but. ...

Camping?   ???

Oh yeah! Dutch people just love to camp. We know that so well because they have to cross Germany to get down south for their summer holidays...  ;) Believe me, the German Autobahn is full of Dutch Campers in the summer.
During the FIFA World Cup, of course, thousands of them came with their trailers!  :)

One fan-camp was near Wertheim, not too far from where I live:







 

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