It snowed last night. It's been a pretty rough winter in Europe and it looks like Bella and I flew in between the patches of bad weather.
Anyway, coming home feels good and weird at the same time. Good because it's nice to see your own country again, to smell the familiar air. Weird, because you can definitely see the financial crisis having a hold of the country. Shops are closed, houses for sale in every street. Like I said; weird.
What's also weird is the different political situation. I follow Dutch news, but not really the political developments here. It's therefore strange to see not one, but two strong right-wing parties in the elections.
We were listening to the radio while driving yesterday, and on the Frisian-language radio there was a song called 'Away with all the foreigners'. It is a normal radio station and this was apparently a normal song. Is this suddenly okay to do? Xenophobic attitudes thinly disguised as pride in your own culture?
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