Random personal logs

Monday, March 30, 2015

Family bikes

Attached pdf is an article introducing all kinds of family bikes in the Netherlands. There are basket bikes, box bikes, etc. Up to 5 kids max. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_z0QeQ5-I5-bGcxYUQtWTl1ejA/view?usp=sharing

Monday, March 09, 2015

My first voting in NL

Quite surprisingly, we received the voting notices from the city for the coming elections. Although we are not EU citizens, we can vote for the water board representatives. There are many political parties here in the NL. 15 parties are participating in the water board election. On the national scale my guess is that there are 40. Most of them actually hold seats in the parliaments or municipal councils. We got interesting parties like Party for Animals, Green Party, Christian Union, 50Plus, Democratic 66, etc.