Thurs, 17 March 2016, 2:22 pm (Europe time): There are no unpleasant Dutch people. That’s the impression I’ve got after 28 hours here in Rotterdam. It jibes with what I remember from my four days in Amsterdam last summer. Everybody in The Netherlands is so nice. I can stand smack in the middle of one of their busiest town squares, in full wannabe tv host regalia, and they either give me the most polite wide berth you’ve ever seen or they make their intrusions into my shots as unobtrusive as possible.
Notice, whenever somebody passes by and peers nosily into my camera or gives me the stink eye from a slight distance, it’s never a Dutch person.