Today has been an excellent day. I've basically done nothing except eat and laze around. Last night Joris and I went to have drinks with a whole bunch of his friends who are very nice and who are also not particularly interested in speaking english all night. So basically I spent the night listening to Dutch and sometimes understanding and sometimes speaking english to certain people, but mainly drinking lot's of martinis. The guy who's house we went to (Luuk) has this great deal which is that he can live in his apartment for 100 euros a month (which is clearly nothing) but he can be kicked out at any point. It doesn't sound very glamorous, but really it's an excellent idea. The person who owns the apartment doesn't want it sitting empty because then people will just squat (which was apparently banned a year ago, but people still do it) and ruin it so they get people to live in them very cheap with the understanding that they can kick you out whenever they want to. Apparently it's quite hard to get one of these apartments and if you get called and told you have one you have to be able to move a chair, a bed and a plant into the apartment within the same day. Which is odd.
I also got to find out about riding bikes after a few martinis last night and it's pretty scary, but apparently it's what everyone does. I thought ah obviously there are bike police out who breathalise you and say no no you are over the legal bike driving limit or something, but nope apparently nothing can stand between the dutch and their bikes.
I really write a lot about bikes. I'm sure I'll get over it.
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