Posted on 16 January 2010 by joost
Did you know that the roses you bought last week were auctioned in Netherlands? Even if you bought them half-way across the globe? It’s true: much as we are huge in dairy, we are huge in flowers as well. We not only grow them here, we are the largest fresh flower marketplace in the world.
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Posted on 31 August 2008 by joost
Netherlands is flat. Real, real flat. Not only the country, but also the minds of its inhabitants. We really don’t like things ‘sticking out’, be they people, cars, mountains, sore thumbs or, as I will discuss now, salaries. It makes us uneasy. We’re not used to that.
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