Nov
5
It is a very wet day in Haarlem today and I have just watched a purple umbrella through the window. I am on the second floor of our very little house. The flash of purple just hit me and it made me get up to see just what had arrived.
It was a lovely young woman riding into the driveway of the offices next door. She was wearing black – head to toe, carrying a black bag – arriving on her bicycle. Yes on her bicycle – it is so wet today that the birds are not even exploring our food offerings and this young lady has got on her bike at home and ridden to work in pouring rain with one hand on the handlebar and the other holding her very purple umbrella aloft.
They are extraordinary people these Netherlanders.
Tags: weather
