I don't think that either of us are going to be able to describe Europe's differences in definitive terms to anyone who ever asks. Every time I think I've found the right description of it, like a detail in a dream, when you try to grasp it just falls out of view. We've now slipped past a week of the adventure and there are certain things that we've grown so quickly accustomed to (driving on the right, bicycles everywhere, the small bricks and steep roof lines of the houses) and things that we're still just constantly seeing as different to home (the calm, a sense of culture or serenity, no huge supermarkets!) There is so much in the Dutch and Belgian architecture etc that blends - and of course these neighbours would have many similarities -
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