This is an exceptionally long week-end for us. In The Netherlands we enjoy four days of leisure at a row: Good Friday, Saturday, First Easter Day, Second Easter Day. That is a good reason to indulge in trivial patriotic self-satisfaction.
But there is more on this level. Like “the best job in the world“.
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During the euphoria I seem to have said that Europe could do with a politician like Barack Obama. On second thought – and after reading this cover story in one of our weeklies – I realize this is, apart from being nonsensical, also a serious error of judgment.
If he really would be our President elect, [...]
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Sheer bad luck trance DJ’s don’t compete in an Olympic sport. If that would have been the case, the Netherlands would have had an extra gold and silver medal.Read this:
De Nederlandse Armin van Buuren werd vannacht opnieuw uitgeroepen tot beste dj ter wereld, door de [...]
Most Indonesian citizens seem to think the majority of their politicians are prone to corruption and are useless apart from that. Though without doubt this is doing injustice to some of them, that is what one can see, read and hear about them on TV, in the papers or blogosphere and in conversations with friends [...]
Lulu Wang is a Chinese woman who, when she was 25 years old, came to The Netherlands. In the last 22 years she has lived here and became a prolific Dutch author of quite a number of bestselling novels. She is, one might say, a very successful new Dutchwoman.