Starseed

Not when you've just had a beer, and you lift your empty glass to the barman.

trutje

Rather strange dutch people don't like A'dam,same here. I am a big fan of the south of the Netherlands, specialy Maastricht! I used to live there and my folks in law(brits) absolutely adored the place. But don't try to speak their dialect,never worked for me...

trutje

My husband(brit) learned his first dutch words in bars around Maastricht.We were seeing eachother for about a week when he came to my house and said" ik hou van jou". Ehm..Already? I asked him. But I just asked you how you are, was his reply. Ehm, no my darling, you just said you love me....
So for a year he went into taxi's,shops etc telling people he loved them.....
Ehm, cheeky dutch girls...........

snowbunny

From Limburg girls?

there are worse things they could have taught him....

My husband speaks dialect and yes, it's impossible to understand him then. I do well to catch a few words of standard Dutch!

trutje

Yes, I know!! But he denies that though.....RIGHT!
I can understand them very well, but I throw my R's around too much.
We're having a schottish friend living in Geleen, you can't really hear the difference between his scottish and geleen's dialect, both unable to understand!
Where's your husband from?

Fuzzlepop

Just been Amsterdam on holiday, I cut it short. I didn't like it one bit, tons of bikes and people to dodge its also very very noisy 24/7. Gets freezing at night.

MataHari

Sorry to hear that. I am Dutch, and I don't like Amsterdam either. You might have been better off in Maastricht or Breda or even Utrecht....the bikes are everywhere though...

snowbunny

Mostly at the bottom of the canals....

MataHari

I thought the Germans had taken them....

trutje

Wish the Brits had done....Very hard to find a decent "Dutch" bike here.
Mostly mountainbikes. Being Dutch I like to sit up straight, finding a grandmother's bike(omafiets) is totaly out of the question..

trutje

Sitting here, trying to find the words to express myself about the things that leaves me feel stick-out like a "sore thumb"....
Like a few people know I'm dutch, married to a Brit, living in UK for nearly a year now.

Nearly every day someting happens that makes me feel like I don't belong on this planet.

For instance...
My son(7) got bullied in school by a boy in his class. That obviously upset my son,husband and me. After my husband telling this to some people the reaction he got was; oh, don't worrie about it, it'll toughn's him up.......

Another thing happened in the bus on my way to pick up my kids from school.
A mother asked her little girl to sit somewhere she didn't want to sit. The girl, who couldn't be older then 3, yelled at her mother; "you're a selfish cow!!!!"
This stunned me so much, but what really stunned me was the reaction of her mother;" that's not fair darling, I've bought you anything you wanted today....."

What is it with me, am I use to morals and valuese, or am I just naive to the world?

Help! I'm so confused....

MataHari

I don't think these things have anything to do with being British or Dutch....stuff like this happens all over the world....regardless of nationality

trutje

You are right But I just wanted to introduce myself

jdr

Ask one of the cycle stores to import one for you, I have seen them in Spain. ;-)

furkew

My BIL have a very big bike shop in Delft.

He has shipped bikes all over Europe before now. You could drop him a line.

He only sells the better brands like Gazelle, Koga, Sparta etc. so no cheap rubbish.

www.pietvonk.nl