ANNA - Getting Late - so Happy New Year! ;) and a Thank-You

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Hi Anna (and everyone else too!!)

 

Thanks for the best wishes. As an expat Aussie now living in Holland I still

find it strange to be celebrating Christmas and new Year in winter.

 

It is just bedlam here at the moment and it's only 4 p.m. The Dutch go quite

crazy with fireworks on New Year's Eve and the noise at midnight is quite

unbelievable. There is supposedly a ban on letting fireworks off until the

evening of 31st December and it is supposed to stop by 2 a.m. The reality is

that it has been building up gradually from the beginning of November and will

go on unabated for at least another week. Apparently over € 60 has been spent

on legal fireworks this year and that isn't taking the illegal homemade ones

(estimated at approximately 2/3 of the total) into account. I think if the

Dutch government tried to ban fireworks there would be a civil war (LOL) as the

tradition of fireworks on 31st December is so much part of the Dutch way of

life. I don't think the big public displays such as the one in Sydney would

ever be accepted by the Dutch as a suitable alternative.

 

Best wishes to you for 2008 from the time warp zone where it is still 2007.

 

Hugs from Marie

 

Coop <rodstruelove wrote:

Ah, well you see, you¹re living in the past! Here in Australia it¹s

already

2008! Hope you all have a good one.

 

Anna

 

 

 

 

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