Dutch Symbols

STROOPWAFELS

Stroopwafels. As its name sais they are "wafels" full of a kind of "syrup". These can be bought in any supermarket, but the best ones are the ones you can get in the street recently made and warm. The wafels come from Gouda, and from there spread all around the Netherlands. How to eat a stroopwafel? Well you open the package and put it in your mouth. That would be the easiest. The best however, get a hot drink and place the stroopwaffel o

ntop of the cup as if it was a "lid". The heat of the drink will make the syrup melt and transform the stroopwafel into one of the most delicious things you have ever eat. Yes, its fat. Here are the ingreedients;flour, butter, brown sugar, yeast, milk, and eggs and for the syrup syrup, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon

CHEESE

Holland is known for its cheese, Gouda Cheese,Edam Cheese....are some of the commonly known cheeses. As a tourist you can head off to the Edam, Alkmaar cheese market which takes place from april to september every friday and shows how cheese was traded in the markets. You can find the "young" cheese (Jong) or the "old"(Oude) or the smoked or with herbs. Cheese is one of the most "typical" dutch food.

YELLOW TRAINS

How to know that you have crossed the border? Besides the fact that when looking through the window you will start to see more and more bicycles you can know you are in the Netherlands once you see that the trains are painted in yellow. Most of the trains of the Netherlands are operated by the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen). I have to say that the trains in the Netherlands offer one of the best services of the countries where I have lived so far. Not only are they clean and people are relatively quiet in them, but except for certain days where there are vertragings (delays) or when the electricity station in Delft breaks down trains do run smoothly. In particular connections between the major dutch cities Amsterdam,Rotterdam,The Hague,Utrecht,Eindhoven are very often and one can choose between Intercitytreins. These trains will mainly stop in the big cities or Stoptreins which stops in all the small middle stations between the major cities.

I ahir..visita tot el dia al port de Rotterdam .....containers, containers i mes containers...

Containers blancs son els containers refrigerats!!

mireu mireu mireu com s aixeca!! I despres sopar amb tots...Les fotos arribaran aviat...

I avui, estudi,reunions,estudi i despres...aniversari de la Undine...

Fent el tonto...Dudok, conegut per els seus pastis de poma i si si, estava bonissim!!

I els altres amagats alla al radera....

Es pot ven dir que aquest any ens ha tocat un bon grup de gent a la clase!!

"Every exit is an entry somewhere" Tom Stoppard

because there are still a few months to go
still many beers to have
man olliebollen to be eaten
many delayed trains to take
many bike rides to take
courses to be taken
a few more speculaas to go
some more patat speciaal
some more towns to visit
a few more shopping visits to be done
Now that it feels right, its starting to feel that soon it will be over....too soon.

And who will remember it? What will be remembered? Where will the footsteps remain?

But for now enjoying the rain as much as possible. . .

Vezza a Olanda!

Il contadino ha trovato anche de mucche in Olanda ....Ha sorriso, era felice era comme a Vezza!

Tutto il giorno ha giocato.... e giocato. .. e giocato ma non podeva vincere.... lui era un contadino e voleva ritornare a Vezza.

E doppo siamo usciti, la birra e sempre buona...

Ma lunedì è venuto. ..e vuoi siete ritornate a l Italia


L'ultimo fine settimana è andato molto veloce, a stato divertente, molto divertente... adesso mi avete lasciato da sola a olanda...e voui siete ritornate a Vezza...anche io voleva venire! Magari ci vediamo il anno prossimo a Francia?? Non lo so...magari vendro a vezza...per vedere le mucche! Questi giorni di lezioni di taliano sono stati benne, o imparato anche piu parole. Anche Irum ha imparato molto, adesso lei po dire Contadino! hahahah.....


Siamo diventati troppo olandesi?

Divendres a les 8.45 ens vem trobar tots els de la clase a Duiven, una ciutat que esta a la frontera amb alemania. Tenir que ser alla a les 8.45 va voler dir aixecarse a les 5 del mati.. i no va ser pas per diversio. Teniem la obligacio de ser al poligon industrial de duiven a les 8.45 per fer una visita al magatzem d una empresa.

Pensareu que estic sonada pero em va encantar, vam estar alla durant 4 hores fent la visita..... tot sobre els temes de logistica de com guarden els productes, de com mouen els productes, com els posen als camions,

tots els diferents tipus de maquines, pallets, cintes transportadores, mecanismes per moure els palets. Mireu les fotos! Segur que us semblarà súper interessant (sobretot a certa gent).

Aquí les tenim amb unes cares de estar súper contentes desprès d haverse aixecat d hora per conduir fins l altre banda del país! Per sort no vam tenir embussos!

Finalment vem pujar als cotxes i vem tornar cap a la uni, alguns amb mes presses que altres perquè ja era la 1 del migdia ens quedaven dues hores de viatge i a les 5 teníem que entregar un treball... Per sort jo l havia acabat, no se com l hagués pogut acabar el divendres ja que nomes arribar a casa em vaig quedar roque, portava uns dies sense parar.

Ara encara ens toquen dues visites mes, mes una visita a la fira de logística mes important del Benelux. Clar que si no hi volem anar no hi tenim que anar…però llavors suspendrem la assignatura…hmmmm

HOLLAND---NO COMMENT 1

Amsterdam,Queens day 2006

foto by me

its 6p.m. its DARK NIGHT

.... wHeN wiLL tHe SuN cOme bAcK??

In Need of: sun,grass.smiles,friends,holidays,laughs,

relax,freshair,beach, mountains,trees,

childs attitude,t-shirts,icecream,holidays,

chocolate,cheese,paella,sangria,beer,

neve ending days.... i need to spend at least

some time laying down in the grass, having a good laugh and with some sun....

One day less for spring.

Dutch Weather?!?!

....Being back in Barcelona was great, people in the streets, car jams even at 1 am, people partying, yeah some people were working as well (but luckily this summer im off work :-) ). Oh and people were finally my hight. Pfff i was geting a bit fed up of the czech and dutch giants hehehe... so just imagine it parties in this town and parties in the other town,and some more parties, delicious food and unfortunately this summer a bit of studing to be done as well. I was able to avoid summer exams for two years in a row, but this year it had to happend. So I am now back in NL with nothing more to do than study......I mean the SUN is here...this feels like a miracle! So when it comes up to ideas, I could be in the beach everyday...but I think im just gona get to my finance books pfff (im over with accounting...hurray!).

Anyway, my only question is what is going on in this country. Im here for 10 months each year and all it does is rain,cold,cloudy,rain,cold cloudy ....oh yeah and right when i have my exams in march and in june, the sun comes out for a couple days so I cant enjoy it (it doesnt happen during december exams....). So I tried to study for my exams in spain and i was drained by the heat...
For the first time in my life I was looking forwards to going back to NL just for its weather. I thought it would be fresher here, I could probably be able to study better and concentrate more. And yeah sure its 5 degrees colder than in Barcelona....but whyyyyy is the sun shinning and is it so warm....definately not what I expected. Now all I want to do is go to the beach and buy a fan for my room, but I bet that if I buy a fan ill never use it again from September till next June. So Ill just study under this abnormal dutch heat for one more week and keep wishing that when I am back in september the sun is still shining ;-)