I had a great week in the Netherlands, although it turned out to be completely lazy and un-adventurous! I'm still a baby about trying to pronounce dutch words, but when you're in a country where everyone speaks better english than you do, it's easy to shy away from sounding like a "cute foreigner". At least that's my excuse! Yesterday I travelled from Groningen, Holland, back to Chartham, England, which is probably only a few hundred kilometers, as the crow flies... And it took 12 hours exactly. Local bus, then train, then waiting, then plane, then train, then waiting, then coach, then (hurrah!) a ride in a fancy Mercedes! Well, at least I got to see a lot a dutch countryside (aka lots of canals and freisian cows! And those horses with the black stipe in their
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