Return to the Dutchie-land
5 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, August 21 at Monday, August 21, 2006.
Well, I left Budapest, and a few hours later, the city goes completely to shit. I think I was really tying that place together....
Arrival back in the Netherlands was a weird one. This place just isnt my home anymore, and I felt it. I can remember so clearly arriving back in Schipol Airport in April after our time in Cameroon, Petroula and I were just so relieved to be home, and I felt totally at home. Today, I feel like I am in transit, enjoying a stopover in the city where Arthur lives......
Now is a slow, pleasant 7 days of chilling here before Egypt. I intent to make the least of it....Thea arrives tonight, and her strange new fascination with windmills means that I think I know where I am going tomorrow. Whats the most amazing thing about windmills I hear you asking? Well have you ever tried grinding hundreds of kilograms of cinnamon at a time? Its either child labour or wind labour, and the Dutch are a fundamentally humanistic people.....
Arrival back in the Netherlands was a weird one. This place just isnt my home anymore, and I felt it. I can remember so clearly arriving back in Schipol Airport in April after our time in Cameroon, Petroula and I were just so relieved to be home, and I felt totally at home. Today, I feel like I am in transit, enjoying a stopover in the city where Arthur lives......
Now is a slow, pleasant 7 days of chilling here before Egypt. I intent to make the least of it....Thea arrives tonight, and her strange new fascination with windmills means that I think I know where I am going tomorrow. Whats the most amazing thing about windmills I hear you asking? Well have you ever tried grinding hundreds of kilograms of cinnamon at a time? Its either child labour or wind labour, and the Dutch are a fundamentally humanistic people.....
wind labour should be used more often around the world : )...
especially if it saves innocent ten year olds from a ruined childhood of labour intensive cinnamon grinding.....
Hey, it is quite sentimental to say that Netherlands is NOT home any more for us. You know, I have so much apprehension passing through that country again in the future. However, I somehow expect to land at Schipol once again some day soon. I'll let you know how it feels for me, Gara!
Big hugz!!!
Welcome back?when are you coming exactly? You don't wanna miss some standard airport pranks.
tommie...I don't wonder why you don't feel like home....nobody can feel it anyway, even the Dutch themselves....whenever i'm catching a cultural conversation with any Dutch, they're always talking about NL as some martians land, not theirs!!
some airport pranks :D get ready bro, and good luck with it