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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:05:18 AM   
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*adores Charne*
I have a particular interest in any architecture prior to 1400's....
*smoooch*

I'll see if I can dig up an archeologist for ya.....

*wonders how long it will take bf adorations slippes*

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:09:09 AM   
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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:10:59 AM   
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ya got me from day one, Charne. . *smoooch*


Well I can find out, what it takes, to sent some tulipbulbs over to ya... :)


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:14:08 AM   
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One of my best times was taking the train over to Haarlem and visiting the Ten Boom watch shop, which was the home and business of the Ten Boom family who were featured in the book "The Hiding Place". They helped out in the resistance by hiding Jews in their home during Nazi invasion, were caught and sent to concentration camps, though the Jews they hid were not found and survived. Corrie Ten Boom survived her stay at Ravensbruck and began a life of evangelism.....very cool story. The house is now open for tours, and is well worth the trip.


The Hiding Place is one of my all-time-favorite books!


Mine too! Getting to actually see and walk through the home where it happened was a very emotional experience. It's almost like their spirits are still there....narrow hallways, small rooms, creaky floors. Best of all was getting to crawl through the trap door that lead into the tiny tiny room that seven terrified people crouched in while their home was being invaded. I have photos :) And the triangle-shaped sign that they would put in the window....it's there, I saw it.

My bucket list was very happy that day :)

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:47:11 AM   
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In fact, The Guy has a standing order to look for, and accept immediately, positions his firm offers him there.

It is our major holiday destination too. We go for at least two weeks in the fall and one week in spring. (Not to Scheveningen, though)


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 10:58:22 AM   
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Well sorry to disturb your dreaming..... we do not wear them anymore, only for tourists *grinnn*
You're right there, they are uncomfy.


He's doing what we in the America's call "pulling your chain".

Since we're on the topic of Holland, can you tell me what people over there are  saying about the government's new plan to ban sale of cannabis to tourists?
  I know that while it's not a main part of revenues, it's GOT to be somewhat significant, so I am sure the opions are flying around. I would love to know what you've heard. As a person on the streets, so to speak.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 11:09:56 AM   
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Oke, they are planning to introduce permits to visit coffeeshops, so foreigners will fall of the wagon then.
The general expectation of our politicians is, that they will stay in their own country to buy there illegal drugs.

I do not think it will help that much, it is going to be out of sight imo. Streetselling and again being bothered on the highways again.

If I look around in my town, I do not think there is to much trouble around coffeeshops for the neighbourhoods where they are.
But if someone asks me, to get him/her something I will... we are known around the world for our tolerance to softdrugs.

But I'm not really aware what the streetopinion is right now, I'll ask next time when I am there.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 11:12:44 AM   
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we are known around the world for our tolerance to softdrugs.


2001 we went as a class trip to Münster for a 3 day conference from the profession we were doing our training for and there we also lost some class mates and our teacher to Holland...for...some additional...sightseeing


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 11:13:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have always had a great interest in the Netherlands, as a fan of European history, its very hard not to. That and the connection between Canada and the Netherlands from WW2 make it an obvious place of interest. I don't know about nowadays, but way back when I was in high school, when a Dutch classmate found out I was Canadian, he made a point of thanking me on the day they commemorate the war (early May, if I recall). As well, the Dutch military attache always places a wreath during our Remembrance Day ceremonies.

An interesting story.... When the Nazi's overran the Netherlands, the royal family fled to Canada, they lived in Ottawa (that's why we get a shipment of tulips every spring and why we have a Tulip Festival). Anyway, when the present queen's sister was born in Ottawa, there was some concern about her potential citizenship status. So for the delivery, the maternity ward of the Civic Hospital was declared to be "not Canadian territory". So in the technical legal sense, she was born in international territory, and therefore not eligible for citizenship anywhere, except in the Netherlands (due to her parentage).


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 11:16:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Charnegui
we are known around the world for our tolerance to softdrugs.


2001 we went as a class trip to Münster for a 3 day conference from the profession we were doing our training for and there we also lost some class mates and our teacher to Holland...for...some additional...sightseeing



There are more ppl addicted to alcohol and gambling than there are on softdrugs.....
And having an addiction is never right.
But then gambling is a huge income post for our state and so is alcohol.

The problem on this war on drugs thing is, that the growers and the shops are not paying their taxes. That's why they're so harsh on it.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 12:56:00 PM   
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If I look around in my town, I do not think there is to much trouble around coffeeshops for the neighbourhoods where they are.
But if someone asks me, to get him/her something I will... we are known around the world for our tolerance to softdrugs.


My experience has been that the coffee shops were friendly, and a really cool way to meet some of the locals. And it's a unique atmosphere.
    Thanks for your info.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 1:07:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Arpig, we learn in school that Prinses Margriet was born in Ottawa and the Canadian government declared the room she was born in to Dutch grounds... If you say, it was international then our schoolbooks are really wrong

I love history, I was born in the city of Rotterdam, which took heavenly bombing during the first days of the war, just to force the Dutch to surrender. They started Rotterdam and then threatened the Hague and Amsterdam, so we'd give in.

Our Queen fled to England and supported the resistence from Londen, our Princes fled to Canada, with her children, Beatrix and Irene.

By the way, did you know our Queen has an American halfsister?


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 1:22:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		i enjoyed my time spent in the Netherlands...Maastricht was lovely.

Then again...how could a tulip NOT love the place....

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 2:11:53 PM   
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Arpig, we learn in school that Prinses Margriet was born in Ottawa and the Canadian government declared the room she was born in to Dutch grounds... If you say, it was international then our schoolbooks are really wrong
i've heard both versions, but according to the cbc arpig is right.

http://archives.cbc.ca/society/family/clips/12821/

either way, its still pretty fucking cool

i was in a bar once with some friends and we were bitching about canada and how our military was a joke and how the world never took us seriously, and this old guy came over and interrupted us. he was dutch and he'd immigrated here just after the war. he said he chose canada because he figured that a country that would send tens of thousands of its sons across an ocean to liberate a country that was so small and insignificant when they weren't directly threatened had to be a decent place to live. it all gave us pause, it was interesting to get that point of view, to see canada from the perspective of somebody who saw us as saviours and liberators. its not something they put a lot of emphasis on in our media and school.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 2:24:21 PM   
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What's the matter with you people? A thread about Holland, and no mention of this




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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 5:39:44 PM   
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This however I have.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 6:12:47 PM   
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I think the wooden shoes must be uncomfortable. 

You are wrong. I walked on the as a child in the early sixties. They function well on our (wet) lands.

But yes, they have to fit.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 6:36:23 PM   
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yeah, leaving us in despair

not to mention that you invaded our TV with this Mister here (RIP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEOvyDcVas

That deserter! Him emigrating to Germany was the single biggest disaster in twentieth century Dutch television.

I loved his Dutch shows. Even though he had left The Netherlands, he often was in the news. Though in Germany he was every day in the news, of course, on just about every page of every Zeitung und Blätter. I expect that it requires a large loft to store everything the Germans wrote about him.


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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/12/2011 6:44:48 PM   
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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 12:31:36 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
That's because I've never heard of it before.
This however I have.
me neither... suppose it was only aired in the UK

But we do have a lot of very good soccerplayers for export
The last generation of soccerwives are all over TV in foreign countries.

And next to the Golden Earring, we exported Herman Brood and Shocking Blue

We also exported the Voice.... Ya'll watching it now.

Rule? Remember plz... we were glad to get rid of him   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WZePOq4Jw

And we're very proud to have those satelitecities all over the world *grinn* Like Lynden and Harlem and so on....
The Dutch sold the Isle of Manhattan to the English... that's why New York has got its nowadays name... at first it was New Amsterdam.

Enough of history for this morning... Now I finish my coffee and go out for a walk.








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