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Podionaut Holland is hot
Post posted by Sacha on April 20th, 2011 at 16:47
I am sitting on my balcony, enjoying the wonderful weather. Yes, it’s hot here. I just heard on the radio that Holland is the country with the highest temperature in all of Europe! Incredible! And very very nice for us :)
Feeling sorry for my cats, they have to stay inside because I don’t trust them with this 11th floor balcony. Or, as you might say “12th floor”. We – in Holland – don’t include the ground floor when counting floors, but the rest of the world seems to think ground floor is a floor too. That’s absurd. It’s like saying a baby is 1 year old before it’s first birthday.
In Holland we tend to do things a bit different, I noticed. We celebrate Christmas in 2 days: First Christmasday (December 25th – hey, that coincides with my Birthday this year!) and Second Christmasday (Dec 26th). Wouldn’t it be super different if we were to celebrate that second day on May 26th or something? But no, that would be crazy. And we’re not crazy, not all of us anyway.
What else do we have? We like to eat raw herring and if we like to show off while doing that, we pick the fish up by its tail and let it slide into our mouth. Also, we love eating licorice. We call it ‘drop’. Could be derived from all the foreigners, dropping down when they try to eat it. And of course, we eat lots of hotchpotch: stamppot! As far as I know, nobody has ever combined these three typically dutch foods. I think someone should try and I know it will taste like nothing we have ever tasted before. And I don’t think I would ever want to taste anything like that again.
We live below sea level and we’re not worried about the rising sea levels. Maybe we think Holland might rise with the sea or maybe we put a lot of trust in our dikes. We have many dikes and we love them. Great to see other countries legitimate gay marriage too! I suspect it’s because of all the tsunami’s.
In Holland we have one nuclear power plant and a (two?) nuclear research facility and nobody really minds. Or rather, we don’t go out on the streets protesting against it. I think we all realize we just need that energy. We can be quite a practical people and I love that about my country.
Did I mention I live right next to a nuclear research institute? I do! I can see the round rooftop of the building from our appartment and it looks perfectly okay. No holes in the roof yet, I check every day. Also no weird clouds, no black holes starting to form above the roof, and no huge purple birds taking off. Quite a boring thing if you ask me.
