Viva Hollandia!

Happy Dutch players and a sad Spanish goalkeeper

 What an amazing start of the tournament! Yesterday, our soccer team beat Spain in the World Championships with an awesome 5 to 1. In 2010 we lost the World Championship finals against them, which hurt bad, but now we crushed them and we are happy again. After the game there was a big party over here, and today already the Dutch news sites reported that the Orange Fever is growing fast after yesterday's game. It will be fun for the Dutch kids who go to Spain this summer to have a vacation of drinking on the beach and dancing in the many clubs there. With a big smile they will order 5 beers, holding five fingers up to make it extra clear that they mean FIVE!

Dutch soccer fans watching the game in the soccer stadium in my town

Not only our soccer team did great. Our ladies hockey team beat Australia in the World Championships Hockey today. We hope that our soccer team will do the same when we play against them in a few days. Winning in soccer will have bigger impact here, but I must say the cute Dutch Hockey players in their miniskirts have a pretty big impact on me too. Anyway, today is a good day, and I will be enjoying my orange pie tonight!

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 Today it is also Little Flags Day. When I told my aunt, who normally is very silent, she became very enthusiastic and immediately wanted to make plans to go to the shopping center. Turned out she thought I was talking about Little Flags Week, which is the annual sale at one of the big fashion stores here. When I explained to her I meant that today is the day the herring boats, decorated with little flags, come home with fresh herring to start the new season. She was a little dissapointed by that. Most Dutch look forward to the new herring season though. The Herring Master declared the new herring to be of top quality, nicely white on the outside and deep red on the inside. The first barrel of herring was auctioned for 56.500 euros which will go to a good cause. When the first crowds at the fishshop are gone I will be enjoying a nice fresh herring too, hooray!