Friday, 24 October 2008

The Dutch Stuff

There are three most horrible things in the Netherlands: the weather, the language and biking when it's raining and windy like hell.

The weather. You never, ever, ever know what it's going to be like. In fact, weather forecast in the Netherlands doesn't make much sense. It changes literally within minutes. The most remarkable time to witness it was when we were going from one lecture to another, and we had to go through one of the campus buildings. On the slowest pace, it takes no more than 15 seconds. As we were entering the building, it was drizzling - those 15 seconds were enough for the drizzle to vanish comlpetely.

The language. The most prevalent sound in Dutch is "g". In order to pronounce it, you need to imagine as if you were going to spit, and breath out sharply. Sounds good, hé?:-) And it sounds even better when it's repeated several times in one word, and when it's pronounced by a good-looking girl.

Biking is much fun. Saves time and money, and makes you much more flexible. However, when you are taken aback by severe rain and wind on the go, you would prefer taking the most shity tram with 102 sweaty miners inside to gradually getting soaked to the skin and helplessly struggling with your umbrella (if you're lucky to have one).

However, it's all not that bad! The Dutch cheese and the way they organize stuff is indeed beyond any praise.

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