crispy winter day
Mood:  cool
Topic: Everyday life (weirdness)
My 1st day in The Netherlands starts with waiting for luggage. Eventually I redistribute some of my things over the bags and I walk towards the customs. After all the extensive safety procedures on boarding every plane, surprisingly now I walk straight through and there isn’t even anyone to ask for my passport.
A fellow Dutch tries to rip me off when buying a card for my handphone and the girls at the foodstall are unwilling to change some of my money into coins for use in a public payphone. Trying to save some time I pop rightaway on a train, but it’s not my lucky day. The delay costs me 1 hour extra and leads me to wait, ironically, in the city where I once used to live for 3 months only, due to the fact that I resigned my job there after 5 weeks. That move (both to and away from the city) might very well be what turned out ot be one of the core decisions leading to me leaving The Netherlands.
But I’m lucky as well; yes, winter it is and I guess the temperature must be somewhere between 5 and 10. but this is one of these days with a crispy, blue-white sky and a low-standing sun, couragously trying to lighten up the spirit of the people in the streets. It is one of those days that you are actually quite happy to go out of the house, catching those few rays of sunlight, even going for a stroll in the forest, though all the trees are bald and leafless…

However, some trees these days are very entertaining...