Hello there, lovely people! It's time to reveal the extensive list of countries I have visited. Here it is...
Countries I Have Visited:
- Holland.
The End.
That was a quick post.
Byyyye!
Just kidding. I'm the queen of rambling. Can't get rid of me that easily. So ner!
It's true, though. The only country I've visited is Holland. Technically I should change the title of this post, but why nitpick?
I was certain I had already blogged about visiting Holland before, but when I went looking for the post I couldn't find it. Weird.
I went there as a ten year old with my parents and brother. It was 1981. I can still remember it. Well, bits of it.
We stayed with some friends of ours in Rotterdam. We ended up riding bikes everywhere. My parents have all the snapshots because obviously 1981 was a very long time ago. They also have footage which they had made into a DVD and gave me a copy, but I don't know how to upload it here.
In the footage I can be seen as a ten year old, skipping amongst the tulips.
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| Not the actual tulips I skipped amongst. |
Other random memories of Holland:
- When we arrived I allegedly slept for a solid 17 hours due to jet lag. If I ever travel overseas again as a middle-aged/old lady I'll likely fall into a coma, never to wake up again.
- I lived on bowls of custard and those round Dutch crisp bread thingys for a month. It was awesome.
- Dutch liquorice called Drop (I think), is the most vile thing I've ever tasted. A million times more salty than vegemite. Yuck!
- They served hot chips with peanut sauce, which struck me as revolting at the time. Now I realise it was probably some sort of satay type sauce and I'd probably love it.
- Yep, we did visit a windmill. I think that was day my mum was filming away merrily only to discover later there was no film in the video recorder!
- We visited some sort of touristy place where the bins would speak when you passed them saying "Papier here!" Or something. My memory of this is a little vague.
- There was a lot of punk and new wave types about and I definitely gawked stupidly at them.
- We went on a boat ride on the canal but as soon as it rocked I freaked and wanted to get off. So my dad got off with me. He doesn't like boats either and I provided him with a convenient smokescreen. Shhhhh, don't tell anyone! 😉
- I remember some of the music that was popular at the time. Such as Double Dutch Bus and Grace Jones's Strange (I've Seen That Face Before). My parents bought a single of the latter, my brother the former. This was in the prehistoric days of vinyl records!
- We almost missed the plane coming home! I'm not sure exactly how my parents got mixed up, but we were meandering around the airport thinking we had aaaages. Suddenly we heard our names being paged and had to bolt to the departure gate. We embarked red as beetroots, as all the other passengers gave us filthy looks. OOPS!
Those are snippets of memories from a very long time ago.
Sadly I've never visited any other countries, but if I could I'd visit the US, Canada and Prince Edward Island. Also; the UK. Not very likely at present, but you never know. Fingers crossed!
What about you?
Which countries have you visited?
