No cow on the ice

Today's aha: the Danish version of 'no danger on the roof' is 'no cow on the ice'. Fabulous. I'm going to casually throw it into a conversation in Sweden in the next week or so.

Soooo.... I'm back, I'm bored, well OK yesterday I was climbing the walls at work but today I've managed to find fun stuff to do (which led me to today's 2nd aha of the much more geeky variety: finding out how the sorting function works in our database which only has another 4 months to live... darn! and yey! simultanously).

Right, so... things I've learnt in the last months or so:

¤You can apparently fry almost any cheese under the sun, not just halloumi. Experiments will commence shortly.

¤I wouldn't pull any 'for everything else, there's Mastercard' references in the Netherlands. They appear to abhor credit cards so I doubt they've ever heard of it.

¤Just because something is a park in Italy it doesn't neccessarily mean you're allowed to enter. Also, if something is listed as a 'place to visit' it doesn't neccessarily mean you can actually visit it. Still not sure if 'observing from afar' is the Italian version of 'visit'.

¤The Italians either have some sort of toilet fetisch or are freakishly polite. In any case, locks on toilet doors are superfluous things, apparently.

¤Though the French do appear to have some sort of humour, it is vastly different from at least Nordic, Italian and Dutch humour.

¤Amsterdam is not a big city. It's tiny. And walking here is almost as exotic as it is in the US. Why would you walk when you can bike?