All Things Holland

I wanted to share a little gem of Dutch news. Last week was the miss universe contest, and although its horribly plastic I normally end up watching it. This year like most years they had the costume contest, which is incredibly stereotypical for most countries ( miss Bahamas was a pirate [a pretty cool one though]). So I wanted to share with you Miss Netherlands 2012, Nathalie den Dekker....with attached windmills.

Our posts have been getting less and less frequent and I apologize. We've hit a dry spell with ideas. But this latest post about the flag was awesome (in my humble opinion). It really got me thinking. (That and I got an awesome email from a friend today) I have 4 ideas for post stories. Each will take some detailed research though. Yet each I really want to do. But which would you rather hear? This is also kind of a test to see who reads this here bloggy or who would actually take the time to comment. If no one votes I'll just pick one and write it up when I have time. If one is chosen however, I'll be even more determined to get it written in a timely manner. Here are your choices. 1) But I thought the Dutch flag was orange? Was there ever another type? (The answer is yes... maybe?) 2) What does Spain have to do with the founding of the Netherlands? I thought they were practically an offshoot of German? I touched on this briefly (2 years ago!) but there are more juic