• Gedogen [v.] - to actively tolerate...
• The Dutch café, a rustic pub with good coffee...
• "Alstublieft" - a hyper-polite social custom...
• Quitting English - confrontational....
• John Paul II, 1984 - a misadventure...
• Dutch gestures (gebaren) ...
• "Eet smakelijk" - the Dutch "bon apetit" ...
• Gratuitous conversation with strangers is not customary....
• "Afgesloten" - "road closed" in downtown Amsterdam. Go back or wait....
• Holland is safe - civilized....
• The "Nieuwe spelling" of 1996 - an official preference of one orthography over another...
• The "coffeeshop," or hash bar...
• Bicycles...
• Peperduur - "as expensive as pepper" ...
• Drinking in the Netherlands...
• Dutch toilets...
• The Netherlands can be exasperating, it's true....
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