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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Een lange Lente


The flowers are finally starting to bloom and the carnival has been set up on the Grote Markt – both good indicators that spring has finally arrived here in Holland. It’s been a long time coming this year and temperatures have still not reached normal. They even had to import flowers from France for the annual "Bloemencorso" parade – a national disgrace in the eyes of most Dutch.

Most of Eastern Europe is inundated with floods from the warm temperatures in the Alps melting the snow so quickly. We’ll take a little bit of that warmth up this way!