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| Fltr: Noordoostpolder, Netherlands, United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Poland |
Last Saturday was Liberation Day in the Netherlands. A day to celebrate the freedom we've had for 67 years now. And I spent part of it on the fun fair that was being held in the center of town. Not on my own: with my friend and her two children! We went on several rides and even on the bumper cars, but the biggest favourite with the two children (they are 5 and 7) was the simple children's merry-go-round.
Of course we also had to get some French Fries with mayonaise (that's the way we Dutch eat it!), Sugar Spider and Oliebollen before heading home where I would make pancakes. Sugar and fat! The perfect day!
I once had a Belgian exchange student talk to my class. Among other things he told us that they eat fries with mayo but that the mayo is different than our. There is a faint chime in my head telling me that I've probably said this once before.
ReplyDeleteI can tell youthat in Germany the people were also happy that the war was over. I very well remember the after war, we were under American occupation, which was quiet good, the poor once who got the Russians that was awful ! My father's brother was 15 when he became a prisoner of war and he came back home when he was 25, he was in Siberia ! What a nice youth !
ReplyDeleteYes sounds like a wonderful day of celebration and yummy sweets! So glad you got to share the day with your friend and her children.
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