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Geachte Mevrouw Blauvelt,

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How to begin...Yesterday while listening to "Afdwaalt" again I decided to check out the rest of Eefje de Visser's artistry. "Man, all of her music is pretty good!" exclaimed a certain surprised person. So, naturally this surprised person decided then and there to buy her album called "De Koek" (The cake). Everyone knows that buying the hardcopy of a CD feels so much better than spending less for the MP3 downloads, so I searched and searched for this CD. It goes to say that very few of these CD's were made, and those that can be found are over the cold salty ocean. Finally I found a website which was recommended by her own official website, bol.com. Here I began digging my hole. Of course it was going to be a tad bit more expensive to buy a CD that was being sold using Euros but I didn’t mind too much. What did worry me was that the website was positively, absolutely, completely written in Dutch. So I may now proudly say that yes I do know the word for date of birth in Dutch as well as the word for no. Take a look at this website. There was even a little Dutch electronic helper named Billie. It turns out after all of that effort and time spent translating that my order was cancelled because of difficulties in processing. Let's hope some Hollandaise isn't spending my minute amount of American money frivolously on some Dutch bicycle or something...
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