Cost of a Pizza????

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I would die from starvation if I lived where you guys live :-o :-(

(a normal pizza here in nl costs about 4-8 Euros)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

seer wrote:
woerden Rocks ! :lol:  :-P  :-D

why do they actually use the 'r' in a placename, when they cannot even pronounce it correctly over there :lol:

no, ppl. Groningen is the city of the future!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

seer wrote:
no, ppl. Groningen is the city of the future!

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you,

 :-D

Well, at least our pubs and bars aren't closed at 1o'clock. :-P

[Speelgoedmannetje]

's Hertogenbosch =
The forest of the dukes

's Gravenhage =
The hague of the earls

('s = des = old Dutch for "the - of")

It's very archaic, nowadays these places are called Den Bosch for 's Hertogenbosch and Den Haag for 's Gravenhage.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
Thanks.

Heh, I couldn't even get the apostrophe the right side of the s!
[I wrote s', but its obviously 's]

I bet a vast majority of Dutch will make that mistake, so I really can't blame ya. Btw. I was kinda surprised you know these old names. I was tought these names at the same time as I learned 'Chechoslovakia' and - no it's NOT Russia! - it's 'Soviet Union' and it's not just 'Germany' it's 'DDR/BRD'

[Speelgoedmannetje]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
Batman `s Gotham city  ?

it would be, if it was located in the UK (considering the amount of sun-hours in a year)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

According to my sis who lives in Aberdeen, it rains a lot more there than here in nl.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
Ah, you see I live in South East England, where the climate is  noticeably warmer than Scotland.
ctually further South than you in Groningen

I know the UK, Cyberus, but I daresay on avarage, British weather is a LOT more wet than Dutch

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I know the UK, Cyberus

But its always cool to see a map of Europe :-)

Yup, to see where I still have to go to for vacation  8-)

but I daresay on avarage, British weather is a LOT more wet than Dutch

I suppose you might be right, as it stretches from the Shetland Isles, which has a similar latitude as Oslo and Helsinki, down to the Channel Islands near Normandy, France.

It's just that my experience of where I live, compared to the time I've been in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, is that weather seems very similar. I think we both see the effects of the gulf stream, which is uncharacteristically warm weather for our latitude, and rain.

You actually lived in these countries?