I was born in that deep south Limburg area...but thought, Neil won't be impressed by that area...
It's exactly like what he has at home but then 10 times smaller everything
It's better to take some walks overthere instead of cycling I think, specially for the heavy duties they are on bikes
Samplaire, let me explain this, tho it's tough for me to do it.
The Rijn, biggest river in (West) Europe, splits into two rivers after it entries the Netherlands, one big one and one small one.
I consider it as a huge PR blunder that we call the small one the Rijn and the big one the Waal, a name no one in the world will ever remember.
The small one bends to the North for a whyle, and then near Arnheim it streams to the West, parallel to the Waal.
Close to Rotterdam they even come together again, the combined waters first pass Rotterdam-haven, and after that it ends up into the North Sea.
So we Dutch gave it away for nothing!
All cargoing takes the Waal, it goes streight to the biggest haven of the world, whyle the so called Rijn is a pathetic small running water, nice for retired people with a yacht, or for poor lost goldfishes.
They took me my Rijn!
I want my Rijn back!
It's the Rijn that passes my appartment, Nijmegen is a Rijn city, just like Köln or Koblenz.
There are no whales in the Rijn, so why call it Waal?
We sold our soul to the devil, and renamed the biggest river of Europe ending in the biggest haven of the world into something not to remember.
You don't rename the Rocky Mountains in the Hillbilly Hills, or the Amazone in Little Sweetwater.
There IS no Waal, there's just the Rijn, Rhine, Rhino or even Rhinosaurus if you like, and it streams right in front of my window.
And that little something, crowling and bubbling to the north...well that's imagination, it doesn't really exist.
It's wet, and it streams, that's true, but therefor you can't name it a river...or the Rijn!
Thanks for listening, pfew, that relieves!
)so visiting Amsterdam and other big cities is only for a very wet rainy day.
