{"id":92,"date":"2019-12-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/141.148.246.190\/index.php\/single-post\/biking-in-a-winter-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:19:06","slug":"biking-in-a-winter-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/07\/biking-in-a-winter-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking in a “Winter” Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(To be sung in your head like the classic Christmas song, “Winter Wonderland”)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bike bells ring,<\/span><\/p>\n

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are you listening?<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the rain,<\/span><\/p>\n

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cheese wheels are glistening,<\/span><\/p>\n

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a mooi prachtig night,<\/span><\/p>\n

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tall ones are out tonight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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walking in a kerstmis Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blown away,<\/span><\/p>\n

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by the strong winds,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here to stay,<\/span><\/p>\n

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in these flat lands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We sing a Dutch song,<\/span><\/p>\n

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as we pedal on,<\/span><\/p>\n

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biking in this blond-haired, Dutch-filled land.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the canals we can’t build a snowman,<\/span><\/p>\n

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because there is no snow in Nederlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They’ll say, are you Dutch? We’ll say, “nee man,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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And they’ll say “have a plate of bitterballen”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Later on, we’ll feel tired,<\/span><\/p>\n

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’cause all this food’s <\/span><\/p>\n

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cooked in the fryer,<\/span><\/p>\n

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We face, unafraid,<\/span><\/p>\n

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all those sweet poffertjes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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biking in a winter Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(To be sung in your head like the classic Christmas song, “Winter Wonderland”) Bike bells ring, are you listening? In the rain, cheese wheels are glistening, a mooi prachtig night, tall ones out tonight, walking in a kerstmis Netherlands. Blown away, by the strong winds, Here to stay, in these flat lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[164,40,44,165,73,76,41,71,163],"series":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humour","category-poetry","tag-biking","tag-dutch","tag-expat","tag-fietsen","tag-humour","tag-joke","tag-netherlands","tag-poetry","tag-winter"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dutch-christmas.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"https:\/\/music.amazon.ca\/podcasts\/09c34bbc-b359-49af-a286-31830ed5634c\/short-stories","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/short-stories\/id1621456328","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbGV4aXN2ZWVuZW5kYWFsLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qvc2hvcnQtc3Rvcmllcw","label":"Google Play","class":"google_play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbGV4aXN2ZWVuZW5kYWFsLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qvc2hvcnQtc3Rvcmllcw","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0lcQCRs52MfYlKs35lVX4K","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/short-stories\/id1621456328","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/blog.alexisveenendaal.com\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

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