The 10 best things about being back in the NL!

1. My devil-red Bike!!! (It has already had its first flat tyre, but we are again speedy together)

1. I can still sit in the tram and not understand the languages spoken around me... (Long live Dutch multicultural society!)

1. Drop = Liquorice (Or 'sea-water-candy', as Emily prefers to call it)

1. I can walk into a shop, ask for something and get served without anyone staring at me with a blunt look on his face saying 'what language are you trying to speak?!'

1. I still speak English every day (with my boss, my colleagues...)

1. Anna's food! :) (Do I need say more?!)

1. I have been away long enough to now think that it is all new and funny again (A bike standing under the 'don't park your bike here'-sign in Amsterdam, etc.)

1. Bookshops with in it books in languages I can read... (Bliss, bliss, bliss! For once I'm not standing in front of the stacks thinking: "Well, sweet, they translated that one into Polish too")

1. I live too close to the Mekka for chocolate-lovers (Belgium) and all those chocolates are here too (Leonidas... Oh yeah!)