This reprise article appeared in 2001 in Het Fiancieel Dagblad English Edition in Amsterdam
I’ll fight you for my pair. Nothing is easier to slip on to take out the trash, bring in the mail or wander around in the garden. They provide a surprisingly comfortable fit yet are a bulky enough reminder to remove when [...]
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Never Wear Klompen to a Cattle Round-up
Posted on 24 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Dutch, Holland, klompen, The Netherlands, wooden shoes
All Aboard – Amtrak Is Full Up
Posted on 23 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 10x per day crisscrossing the NE corridor, 12-minutes magically added to the schedule, 150 mph (220 kph), 1st Great Western, 28 million people (up from 25.6 million), 33% increase in the budget for Amtrak, abandon cars, Acela, age and neglect, alternatives, Amsterdam, Amtrak, Amtrak’s Northeast corridor, Anglo-French Eurostar, antiquated system, Atlanta-Dallas, avoid long drives, Belgians, boon to travellers, Boston, Bridgend, British TGV, Cardiff, Chicago-St. Louis, Congress, Congress seems to be listening, continually slept, deferred major infrastructure projects, delays are often very long, Dutch, EU, Eurostar, exceed 300 kph or 200 mph, Frankfurt Airport, French, French in particular, German, Germans, high cost of petrol, high petrol costs, high speed rail, huge economic toll between major cities, huge struggle, ICE, infrastructure, Joe Biden, lengthen the time of the journey, London, London Paddington, long-running joke, Naval Observatory Circle, need 5-10x that amount, night and day, old equipment, owns 700-miles of trackbed, Paris, plagued with delays, poor quality track beds, public train transport, reener opportunity, rents from freight lines, ridership was up 14% in July, San Franscisco-LA, US citizens love to mock Europeans, US train system, USA, Vice President, Wales, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]
SportCenter Not !
Posted on 22 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: American Sports, Amsterdam, cycling, Dutch, elfstadentoch, ESPN SportsCenter, European Cup, football, Friesland, Heerenveen, Holland, Monday Night football, NBA Finals World Series, soccer, speed skating, Super Bowl, Swimming, Tour de France, World Cup
(Reprise article)
What I would give to just once hear the ESPN SportsCenter duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh theme here in eastern Holland’s Achterhoek region. Living in Europe means the death of the sports I grew up loving.
While America was intrigued and beguiled by outstanding performances on the Salt Lake City speed-skating oval, unless you live in Wisconsin or [...]
On Race and Differences
Posted on 29 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Arawack Indian, Bill Clinton, clinton, democratic primary, Dr. King, Dutch, EEOC, ethnic origin, Gary Younge, Jamaica, North End, obama, race, race card, Roxbury, school busing, Sir Humprhey Applegate, South Boston, The "N" word, The Guardian, tick boxes, Voting Rights Act, Yes Minister
Gary Younge of The Guardian Newspaper wrote a disturbingly true piece on the growth of race as the key issue in the current US Presidential election. Younge, a black man, speaks openly about the Clinton candidacy’s cynical use of race to destroy Barack Obama’s electability. As a person of colour, as I believe we all [...]
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