What do you know about Holland?

Well, I didn’t know things about Holland, I had to surf the net and search

for images and information about Holland. What have I found ?

Tulips, Word shoes, Wind mills, nice Houses, marihuana, and bikes.

When I had the first encounter with Marcel ( my partner from Holland) I

asked him about all these things. He explained me a lot of things related

to the information which I had found.

Like this:

•        Holland has a queen and her name is Beatriz,
but she doesn’t control the country, because Holland
is constitutional monarchy.

She is Beatriz, she was born on January
31, 1938 and she took the throne on
April 30, 1980.

•        The most  exported product are the tulips, there for they
are very important for the country’s economy.

This beautiful hybrid
tulips are from Holland!

•        The wind mills were originally used for the water
control, because Holland is a big field under the sea level
and they have many problems with  preventing the land from
floods.

 This picture was taken in
September the last year in 
Holland of course.

•        The official language is Dutch which sounds like
an mixture of English and German and French, with a base
in English and German etymology.

This is the official flag
from Holland.

Have with, blue and red,
just like our flag! The
Chilean flag.

•        In Holland most of people have bikes,
they prefer to ride a bike because is cheaper and
healthier. But unfortunately many bikes are stolen everyday.

In the pictures:

A girl biking in
Holland and a
bicycle parking
at Holland.

•        Holland is a very liberal country, and the people
are very liberal as well.  Drugs like the Marihuana are allowed
in Holland and you can buy it in so called “coffee shops” which
actually don’t sell any coffee at all.

Wow! In Chile
you don’t see
thinks like this
kind of coffees.

•        The most important celebration day is “The Queen’s Day”.
During the year at this celebration day the people use traditional
clothes.

All this things happen
in the queen’s day!
All is orange in honor
to the Queen.

How we can read here Holland is very different to Chile,
but very interesting! May be when I’ll have the necessary
money I’ll travel to Holland! But for now I listen Marcel to
tell more thing about Holland and learn of this beautiful
country.

Nicole Lastra Quiroz.