My Dutch diary is a light-hearted look at my view on life month by month. It's all the things you won't find in a guidebook partly because they are very ordinary in a day to day sort of way and partly because I live in a part of the country that isn't just ignored by guide books it's also avoided by a lot of the Dutch people too. In a way that's nice because although the old customs and old wives tales can be infuriating at times it is nice to live...