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Things I've learnt in Holland

Out of all the countries I've visited long enough to get a real, unredeeming sense of what makes its people tick, Holland, the land of a thousand mills and meandering, wet and flat landscapes is probably the most curiously eccentric. And guess what

Holland has historically been one of the most progressive, developed and prosperous countries in the world. Just look its hugely successful flower trade (Keukenhof, anybody
WHEREVER YOU GO, YOU WILL SEE A DUTCH WOMAN WEARING BOOTS TO ANYTHING.

An Italian friend of mine once haughtily observed that cropped trousers should not be worn by short people. "It cuts them off", she said. Dutch women are tall, so they don't have that problem. What seems to be a chronic trend, just like HIV was over the world a few decades ago, sweeping the nation, however, is the crop trouser-with stiletto boots- whose -hems just meet the hems of the trousers-look. Sometimes there's even a gap.

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