In the middle of nowhere: Wageningen

Netherlands is definitely a beautiful and very civilized country… a nice place to live if it wasn’t for the rain and if you have a group of people with different habits from the locals… Some facts:
- You can arrive in a hotel with no ID, stay for a few nights and leave without paying and nobody cares or asks you for any document… nothing (btw: we did pay)
- It rains a lot
- apple pie is very good
- bikes have always the priority (even if foreigners try to hit them)
- shops close at five (except coffee shops, of course)
- families have football teams among their kids
- no wonder that the "Big Brother" concept came from the Netherlands - their houses are open to the world with very big open windows...
-we saw no policeman in the first day, but we got a parking fine
- you really need to lobby for a tea… by having first an orange juice and changing the waiter
- the waiters are really…”nice”
- apple pie is very good
- there are roads that end up in a river (and then you have to take a ferry for… 100 meters)
- the police finally shows up to make a alcohol test to someone who was drinking hot chocolate… and I could be a Belgium serial killer but they don’t care… No ID, no driving license, no insurance… nothing
- you don’t need to learn Dutch (they all speak English)
- apple pie is also good

Besides Wageningen, Utrecht and Nijmegen are very coasy cities... worth visiting just for relaxing and having nice quiet walks... (some pictures to come soon)
Definitely a country to visit, especially if you have nice friends there (obrigado por tudo Ana) and you travel with nice people. Thank you Ylenia and Raffaella for the warm company and the nice conversations… love you both...

signed: "National Geographic"