You forgot complaining about the weather 😂

You have one of the best pronunciations of Dutch I've heard from a foreigner, especially considering the short time you've been in The Netherlands, nice job!

Did you know that the Dutch verb "in de war zijn" (to be confused) is etymologically related to the English word "war" but that the Dutch word for "war" (oorlog) is also etymologically related to confusion? Confused now? The Dutch word "oorlog" has a very, very old etymology, probably the oldest in Europe for this word (going straight back to indo-european language whereas other languages took a different path). Oorlog means (etymiologically) "a state of affairs that is confusing and was put upon you without you having control over it". That term "confusion" is in Dutch "in de war zijn (and have no control over it)". Hence the English word "war" is family of the Dutch "in de war zijn" and the Dutch word for war: "oorlog".

We like to: *Complain about the weather. *Complain about how expensive everything is. *Complain about our next-door neighbor. *Complain about politics. *Complain about basically anything. Klagen is iets very Nederlands.

Are there more Americans like you? Bring'm over!

As a dutch person I like to see the video's you make. Kinda puts me being Dutch in a perspective that I can't see. Also I am learning things like about the olifantenpaadjes and Luns talking with JFK about horse fokken. I also want to add something about doe even normaal. And that's "met je kop boven het maaiveld komen". Freely translated: being very good at something. Dutch really good soccer players complaining about it when they come back to the Netherlands. After having lived a superstar live abroad and then being back in the Netherlands again, they have to "doe normaal" again. So they have to put their head back into the soil.

Rules are meant to be bent! Dunglish is called stonecoal english in dunglish. I am dutch and i eat yoghurt, fruit & salad for breakfast and leftovers for lunch. Throwing away your leftovers is not ‘zuinig’. Bad for the wallet and the environment. Bread is for ‘tosti’ and for cleaning your plate at dinner and dunking in soup. And to take with you to work or school or a trip. So you don’t have to buy an expensive lunch. Ons ben zuunig. Not skimpy but economical. Doe normaal means be yourself but don’t be arrogant. Bragging is not a way to make people like you. But it also means you don’t have to be your best self all the time. Cutting in line is not ok. Letting someone go in front because they have only a few things or because they have to catch a train is. Also a very dutch thing is to be open to different lifestyles. We say we are tolerant. It is not always the case but most of us try to accept people for who they are. Regardless of colour, sexuality, sex, religion, identity, etc. Only we don’t understand cultural appropriation. That’s not a thing here. I think it’s because we accept people for who they are, how they dress, how they present themselves, even if that’s not in the culture they are born in. So if you are a white swede who dresses like a masai, we still welcome you.

"Doe normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg" is a typical Dutch saying, which translates to "Just act normal, that's already weird enough".

Work at a company full of expats and the get Dutch lessons during working hours. And I always love the way the girls say things like Nootjes of Broodjes .... zo schattig (so cute)

The Dutch word for society is samenleving and it translate to, togetherliving, that's why you have to doe normaal! 🙂

Keep up the good work Dutch Americano! I really enjoy your videos! I'm a fan!

i think you forgot how much we enjoy the sun, even in winter we love to sit outside close our eyes and enjoy the the first rays of the sun

It used to be a warm lunch meal in the Netherlands, but it changed over time. We often ate a warm meal at lunch when I was young (70s-80s). But that was in times when dad (still could) came/come home for lunch. It was quite common in our family to name the warm meal as 'middageten' even though it shifted from lunch to dinner. As in "Hebben jullie vanavond middag gegeten?" (a warm meal for dinner.) It actually makes more sense to have a warm lunch instead of a warm dinner, because you needed more energy to get through the working day, without all the modern electricery that makes work less labour intensitive. And in the evening, a light bread meal also makes more sense because leasure takes less energy. Modern times.... But hey, I'm an evening/night person, so my main warm meal is around dinner time, so I can put my energy in stuff I want and need to do during evening and night... Just take the specific type of meal at the right time that does the job :)

One of the most beautiful funerals I ever attended was preceded by cycling our friend's coffin in a (really large) bakfiets to cemetery Zorgvlied in Amsterdam followed by all his family and friends on bikes. I think some 150 people were in the cyclist procession. And one police motorcyclist - a former friend of the deceased ...

One of my favorite things to put on bread is this white powdery stuff Sometimes some moisture creates lumps you kind of have to chop it up a bit... then you take a straw... Why are you looking at me like that? You put the straw in a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. and enjoy your toast with gestampte muisjes (an anis powder spread)

Originally 'borrel' was slang for a glass of jenever. Later the name for any alcoholic drink and now how you described it. It's nice to hear what you think of our little habits.

JFK answered with :"Pardon??" Then Luns said :"Yes, paarden".

I really enjoy watching your video's, nice to see my own country through someone else's eyes. Am glad you feel happy here and only saw a flash of your cat but what a beauty

As a Dutch guy, I think you summed that quite nicely. Good job!

Normaal doen: no doubt you have heard about biking Dutch queens and kings. Brood eten instead of a warm meal for lunch is also a form of "normaal doen." A famous story is about a French king (if I remember it well) who visited the Netherlands. During a trip they stopped for lunch but instead of a rich banquet the caravan stopped to, to the surprise of the king, eat "broodjes" at the side of the road. Also minister- president "vadertje" Drees was "well-known" among important people from other countries because he always offered only broodjes for lunch.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.👌 @06:15 Until the 1950's or 60's it was common to eat what we call dinner now at lunch time, and a bread meal at "dinner time".

Borrel is actually a name for a high alcoholic drink, like gin, whisky or cognac e.g. a collective name. So using the word as a verb, borrelen, means going out for a drink, like the friday night drinks. Borrelhapje then means a snack to accompany a drink. So although it is used frequently to indicate a social event, that is not the original meaning of the word borrel.

About flashy outward displays: Dutch usually prefer to outdo the other on quality and style, not flashyness. The Nouveau Rich can usually be recognized for flashy "bling" instead of style.

Hi Eva, (I'm born Dutch, but I've worked for British (=English) companies for years, so I'm used to communicate with colleagues about language issues). The going name for mixed English/Dutch is Netherish, every native speaker of Netherish is easily recognizable (soft of like a speech impairment). My British colleagues had a special name for the English/Dutch mix, they called it "Middle Atlantic", because most English speaking Dutchmen tend to mix pure English and American English, without ever being aware of these not being 100% the same (nobody told them). The Dutch tend to learn the language mix via different channels (books, records, tv/radio, films and school) without necessarily ever being aware of which is which and therefore mixing things up into a confusing mess (e.g. color vs. colour and initialise vs. initialize). Even as I'm typing this, I must be careful as I try to type English, but Google is an American company so I'm being watched by an unanticipated spelling checker who doesn't like "colour".

About three, four years there was an ad campaign for a jeans brand, large posters at the bus stops. The slogan (of course in English): Fit in to stand out.

"Bend the rules" as long as you "doe normaal"

You have a nice personality and a good sense of humor Ava, it's fun to watch and yes, we do like to bend the rules, especially in large cities like Amsterdam and Utrecht, I'm happy with that civil disobedience

"borrel" literally means a strong alcoholic beverage like distilled alcohol. Hence my disappointment when I got invited to 'een borrel' once and the strongest drink available turned out to be wine. In the old days when someone asked if you wanted 'een borrel' and you said yes, you would get a tiny glass (they are still called 'borrelglas' and you still get served any distilled beverage served in it in a cafe unless asked otherwise or being in a more fancy cafe that has separate glasses for separate brands of beverages) filled with jenever (a dutch distilled beverage, alcohol percentage equal to whiskey or cognac) optionally served with a sugar cube.

Your pronunciation of dutch words is remarkably good

It's really cool that you actually understand the dutch sense of humor. Then you're really 'ingeburgerd' :v . I think you managed to explain really well the things that are almost impossible to translate. Things that are so deep down in the culture. Like the 'doe normaal'-thing. Well done!

We also had a prime minister in the seventies (Den Uyl) who said: We are a country of undertakers, where he ment: We are a country of entrepreneurs :-)

A friend of mine (indian descent) tried some sentences/words in Dutch. He said one time... "Snail is fast".... I told him that a snail is not fast at all, more the opposite! He was very confused because he just learned the word "snail". After a while i figured out he pronounced the word "snel"... to "snail". And yesss "snel is fast".... 😂

Your pronounciation of the Dutch language is very good! Great video's!

I learned the word indeed from cristoffer judge who played tealc in stargate sg1.he was almost every episode saying indeed.

OMG, 'olifantenpadje'? I'm Dutch, 61 years old but even I didn't know that! 🤣🤣🤣 I knew the story about Luns and Kennedy, but I had to laugh so hard, I almost spilled my tea when you mentioned that. 🤣🤣🤣

Love your videos, tnx!

Critical difference between borrel and happy hour. A borrel is 100% about having a relaxing time with friends to unwind. The price of the drinks is a complete non-factor. Happy hour is all about the fact that there's a discount on alcohol. A borrel is organised around having drinks, but it's not about having drinks

These 6 things just show the level of creativity of us, Dutch people, a little bit.😘

My mother used to say “doe normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg” Translated: act casual, because in that case you already acting crazy. And I love your channel. I’m binge watching it right now. Your observations are so to the point. And interesting. I’m learning a lot of new thing. F.i, the vrymibo. I’m 67, and that was something that started in the beginning of my work life. And now it’s so common.

I think you said it yourself: 'Doe normaal' is not so much not making the most of what you can be, but is being down-to-earth about it. Act like a grown up and don't be all shiny and glorious about it .... ;-) That's where the not-so-fancy cars etc. come in .... We don't do 'status' very well and that's both a blessing and a curse .....

Never heard of 'olifantenpaadjes'. Never too old to learn I guess.

You made good observations about us 👍🏻

Borrel used to reference hard liquor (like Dutch gin - genever). These drinks would also be called "bitter"and this is from a time when certain herbs and veggies with a bitter taste were considered beneficial to one's health. Some of them also would preserve - think of hops in beer. So, borrelhapjes (little borrel bites) would more formally have been called "bittergarnituur" and bitter with its garnituur would typically be served after 5pm and before supper. The "bitter" thing was international and Italian "amaro" means bitter or "amaretto" means little bitter. All sorts of European herbal extractions got distilled and sold as bitter. The best known item in a Dutch bittergarnituur could be the bitterbal - a ball-shaped croquette that is not bitter at all, but just named so because of its association with the bittergarnituur. Then you have these drinks and accompaniments at a table that you could call "borreltafel" - the table at which the drinks and snacks are served - which gives rise to the word "borreltafelgeklets" where this type of "geklets" (banter) references the tipsy nonsensical kind.

in winter, especially when its really cold we tend to eat more warm stuff for lunch with our bread of course. do we have a (soft) boiled egg with our breakfast, we love a fried bacon and egg(s) on our bread for lunch, or a sausage, meatball or soup on the side. It seems that the colder it is the more we need something warm to eat with our lunch

Another form of the "doe normaal" is the "wat moeten de buren wel niet denken"/"what should the neighbors think" you see this more in smaller villages and tells a lot about not standing out of the crowd

I life in the east of the Netherlands, We like hiking, (wandelen) we like it so much we will go out and to the same woods(bos) and walk the same path over and over again. We like to meet friends or familie and hike together. Not as a sport. Not as a exercise, but as a "gezellige wandeling" and after this walk/hike we like to go to a bar and drink a koffie or some alcoholic beveridge's.

"I speak English very well, nog niet zo snel, maar dat komt nog wel".

Vorig jaar nog een mooi stukje Dunglish gehoord op Schiphol. Bij een koffiekraam stond een rij mensen bij een kassa terwijl een andere kassa vrij was. Waarop de dame bij de vrije kassa naar de rij riep "You can also pay here, hoor." Dat geeft "hoor" dan toch een heel andere lading.

Erg leuk! Ik begrijp hierdoor wat meer van de Amerikaanse way of life!

honestly, i dont think dutchies like to bend rules, but rather we know to recognize the difference between the letter, and the spirit of the law. like the difference between the most literal interpretation of a rule, and whatever the results are the rule is trying to accomplish..

Don't forget our prospensity to complain about just everything, be it the weather, politics, the neighbours, the price of day-to-day things, you name it. And we love to be open and direct about things. I work for an American company and one of the first things I learned was to inform my American colleagues about it. I told them that if a manager tells a Dutch employee to do something, that person's first reply will most likely be "WHY?". I learned early on that this fact has a tendency to create the perception that Dutch people are difficult to work with, especially if the Dutch person is told once again to simply do it (after which he will most likely grumble and do it anyway). The "WHY?" is not because the Dutch employee does not want to do what he has been told, simply that he is genuinely interested in the motivation for it. He (or she) wants to be involved in the process, and is interested in knowing the bigger picture. Knowing the bigger picure will not only help him do his job better, but will also allow him to give his manager (and his peers) feedback in the form of informed advice. Most Americans whom I have told about this then go and say "oooh..." Usually we have a good laugh about the misunderstandings of the past afterwards. In all my years working for this company I have not met many people who were not open to learning this and going the extra mile for us, "difficult" Dutch people. It is a two-way street of course, we need to go that extra inch as well (and complain about it). Pun intended. Cultural differences are fun. They make good conversation topics and they help us learn a lot from eachother. To quote JMS: understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, my side and the truth somewhere in between.

smiles.. another American here.. a slight correction.. croquet/kroket/bitterbal is not a fried dough ball/stick.. it's a solid ragout rolled into a ball/stick, then breaded n fried..

That "olifantenpaadje" sometimes even gets paved by the council, because it works better LOL!

Love your video's

Eating a warm lunch is not so uncommon, but because people often eat lunch at work/school it's easier to bring some sandwiches in a lunchbox than to cook a meal in the short lunch break, and of course nobody likes to eat microwaved food for lunch. But of course when you had a warm lunch, then you eat bread for dinner.

For a borrel you don't need to go to a cafe or pub. It's just having some drinks with friends or co-workers or classmates or something like that, and often (but not necessarily) accompanied by some borrelhapjes/bittergarnituur*/snacks/bites. It usually has a starting time but no end time, and people can come and go as they please. Particularly common are the WoMiBo and VrijMiBo (Woensdag MIddag Borrel = Wednesday Afternoon Borrel/Drink, and Vrijdag Middag Borrel = Friday Afternoon Borrel/Drink), which serve as a mid-week leisure moment or closure of the work/school week (they're especially common to be held by workplaces or by studen associations). Other types of borrel are the kerstborrel (christmas borrel/drink), nieuwjaarsborrel (new year's borrel/drink), afstudeerborrel (graduation borrel/drink), constitutieborrel (constitution borrel/drink; this is not constitution as in the US constitution, but constitution as in a new board of a company or association being constituted/formed/recognised). Sometimes a borrel is also held after a (formal) event to allow people to just talk a bit with other attendees in a more casual environment afterwards. Borrel also means a glass of high proof spirit, especially when talking about Jonge Jenever (New/post-WWII style Dutch Gin/Genever; literally young Dutch Gin/Genever; in contrast to Oude Jenever which is Old/Pre-WWII style gin), which is probably where the name for both the social event and the snacks comes from. *Bittergarnituur (as well as Bitterballen) is another name derived from a type of alcoholic drink, een (kruiden)bitter(tje), which are herbal/botanical digestive bitters (e.g. amaro, jägermeister, beerenburg, campari, aperol); garnituur means a garnish, so bittergarnituur is a garnish for with your digestive bitters, and bitterballen (which are a subset of bittergarnituur) are balls served with your digestive bitters. I'd say bittergarnituur is a subset of borrelhapjes specifically describing the deep fried snacks, whilst borrelhapjes may also include other snacks/bites eaten with your borrel, such as nuts, or cheese & crackers. As for bitterballen, they're not really dough balls as you describe them. the filling is a thick roux based sauce/filling, (in Dutch we call it a ragout, which is also eaten in pasteitjes, in Flanders this is known as vol-au-vent. I think the closest thing to a Dutch ragout in the English speaking world is an American white gravy), and then they're coated in breadcrumbs and deep fried.

Haha the part about 'Bend the rules', so true!

Dunglish: didn't know of it's existence until you mentioned it. But I use it.. on purpose.

nice blog. one thing, doe normaal quits during major football/ soccer tournaments and kings day😁

I used to get lunch from a food truck close to my work. Patat oorlog met slachtoffers (frites with mayo, pinda sauce, onions), pita shoarma, bereklauw. Deeelicious.

:) about a "borrel" or as we sometimes call it a "neutje" Lots of drinking litle to eat , is only in the west of the country. In south and east netherlands food is a more important part. Over the decades that changed a bit to. But it is still to see when people marriage. In the eastern and southern part from the country with marriages you often (depends on the couple their budget) see a warm and cold buffet and free drinking till 12, the coffee with gebak. Where in the west of the country often you get served 3 drinks and the rest is on your own pocket. And you are delighted if you get snacks served.

I have to comment about your use of the term “expat”. We are immigrants! Expat was coined so that when we emigrate to other countries we don’t want to be considered negatively. As a contrast to foreigners that come into “our” countries where we consider immigrants a negative thing or perhaps just as lesser citizens. We are immigrants to the Netherlands just as my grandfather was an immigrant to the US when he arrived just after WW1.

In Utrecht they even shut down the traffic lights on de Neude, because no one was using them.

About the bending the rules we were just doing jumping jacks and talking😂😂

Best lunch in the Netherlands, zakelijk 1kroket, kopje (tomaten) soep, uit een Sodexo pakje, (karne)melk, 2 plakjes kaas en een paar sneetjes brood..

Ik kon mijn lachen niet inhouden bij je verhaal over de borrel. je bent grappig!

You can get a beer for a lower price, yes. But I think the glass is a lot smaller as well. I don't know about the US, but I've been to the UK once, and there all drinks come in half pint size at least. Compared to that, a simple beer is about 1/2 or 1/3 a half pint. So, in terms of price versus quantity, it might be just as cheap as a beer in the US, that is if a beer in the US comes in the same size as the UK half pints. You want to see crazy bikes? Come visit North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands in February, when Carnaval is celebrated, especially in and around the city of s-Hertogenbosch (or Den Bosch). You'll see what they call a beerbike, basically a kind of mobile bar with a beer tap on a very big bike. Only recommended if you're planning to get drunk while biking together with about 10 to 20 people. Now, that's crazy!

I'm from the Netherlands, but i wouldn't say i like to bike allot. I mean, i do bike allot, but that's just because it's practical. I almost never go biking for the hell of it, only to get somewhere. And i think that's true for a big part of other peeps here.

Welcome to the Netherlands! I like your vlog and blog. As Jan Folkersma explains: '... when you stick your head out of the crowd, it will be chopped off.' We Dutch think of ourselves as a civilized people, 'een beschaafd volk'. And that adjective 'beschaafd' comes from the verb 'schaven', i.e. planing, flattening wood. Everything that sticks out will be planed away. Btw, I'm curious: have you spent time in Germany? Because the way you indicate 'three' with your fingers is the German way, at least according to 'Inglourious Basterds' by Quentin Tarantino ;-)

I didn´t know those paths were called Oliefantenpaadjes, tbh it always makes me laugh when I see those paths, its just so funny to me that no one wants to waste a second.

eons ago in Amsterdam the rule was to cross at the red light so you won't get hit by anybody doing the same from the other side....., fr pedestrians/bicycles vs car!

My girlfriend eats rice for breakfast and lunch. I can't eat it! I only eat dinner. But I adjust. Always keep rice leftover. And dinner includes or bread and meat! Love is the answer. On everything

Good observations

Brood is bread, Broodje is little bread (the -je, -pje, -tje, -ke, and -kje suffixes in Dutch is used for a small version of things, although sometimes it's also used to cutesify things) and describes what in English would be called a bread roll (or simply a roll). Broodje is sometimes also used for a sandwich, although mostly if the sandwich is made using a bread roll. A boterham (literally: butter ham, I have no clue why) is a slice of bread. One of the reasons why eating bread is common and encouraged here is because it is baked with a high Iodine salt called bakkerszout (baker's salt) and Iodine isn't very common in other products of a typical Dutch diet, so to prevent people from getting Iodine shortages, it's used in baking bread and then encouraged to eat bread. People who don't eat bread, who make their own bread (without using baker's salt), or who get their bread from some organic hipster bakery that uses pure sea salt instead of baker's salt risk getting iodine shortages which can cause birth defects in the baby if a person is pregnant, hampered growth in children, or goitre in adults.

An english speaking person says to a dutch person "Spring is in they air" answer from the dutchman "why should i???"

Watching your video, I understand how difficult it must be. Trying to be dutch. Maybe it's something you can not learn. You can only fit in , accept!

'Indeed' is also a very British thing to say!

I've got two books (also available as sites) : 'make that the cat wise' and the undutchables

When Dutch people say "doe normaal", I feel like a more fitting translation is "stop acting crazy" instead of "act normal" It's a slight semantic difference but I really feel like that bit is why the phrase sounds so weird in English.

Yes, drinks are cheap, but then again, you get 6 bitterballen (made from breadcrumbs, potatoe, and very little meat), weighing 100 grams (3.5 ounches), for the price you can have a all you can eat steak diner in the USA. ;-) In the south, they have a "hot lunch", and they eat brood for diner. This might be even weirder. oh, and you forgot about eating Drop.

Bitterballen are quite certainly not dough balls. In fact, there is no dough involved in a bitterbal whatsoever. It's a little ball of ragout (beef), rolled in breading and then fried. It's sort of a mini-kroket and very popular with a little bit of mustard!

Your 'bitterballen' was in 100% perfect Dutch.

There was a park where they didn't create paths and after a while natural pathways came to be and than they created the paths on the routes that came natural

Boterham is a slice of bread Broodjes/puntjes are round soft little breads. Worstenbroodje are a kind of sousageroll form the south Kadetjes are white Hubkes with anijs

You should make a vid about the Dutch way of eating a piping hot bitterbal, there is a special technique for it that only the Dutch know about ;)

"zin" in Dutch does not mean "sin" (that would be "zonde" in Dutch, we also use it like "dat is zonde om weg te gooien"='"that's sin to throw away" but it really doesn't have the religious connotation when used like that anymore, and in case you thought that should be "a sin" or "sinful" then you're wrong, in Dutch that'd be "een zonde" or "zondig", but no, we use "zonde" without an article in front of it), it's just a mistranslation where someone assumes that if it sounds the same it will have the same meaning (which is the case for a lot of phrases in "I always get my sin"; I have that book as well). "zin" in this context/meaning is difficult to translate, like "zin hebben in..." ("having 'zin' in...") "is "looking forward to...", "being excited about..." "wanting...", "je zin krijgen" ("getting your 'zin'") is "having it your way" or "getting it the way you want it", so it's it's kind of like something you want. "Zin" can also mean "sentence/phrase", and it can also mean "meaning/purpose (of [your] life)" in a spiritual/religious/philisophical sort of way, and it's also part of the word "zintuig" which is a sense but would literally be a "'zin' tool/instrument".

Biggest compliment you can get after striking riches or becoming famous, is if people say that you’ve remained ordinary ( hij is gewoon gebleven).

Go with the flow :) (doe normaal)

you dont have to go to a bar for a borrel you also can just go to family or friends before dinner then just hang out for an hour of 2 then go home and make dinner

They have like a stopword..like Dusss They like eating cheese And what is different is eating mayonaise with fries instead of ketjup. They don't eat bread like us i mean they put stuff on it but not like filled with everything we can find in the fridge

'Doe normaal' doesn't mean that all people have to act in line, It has more to do with the fact we don't like people who show off or bragging about themselves. People showing their wealth, for example, or driving extremely expensive cars. We don't like that.

'Olifantenpaadje' has a name in English too! They're called 'desire paths'.

More Dunglish . Make that the cat wise ! and of course : Are you taking me in the maling ? Doe maar normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg. Which stems from the ' Dutch Reformed Church ' of Johannes Calvijn who instituted the church on principles colloquially known as Calvinism : Soberness, Frugality, don't be overly emotional, value life, family and health above earthly possession , don't brag about your successes , etc. etc.

A borrel is a small glas of jenever (where the english get their gin from)

Een borrel is a kind of (alcoholic) drink, mostly jonge jenever. The verb is borrelen (That is kind of "gathering" for drinks) and that is what you are descibing.

Yes. We like to bend the rules. It's called polderen. (Polder model), just to make everybody happy with negotiations and the result.

You should have added "broodje gezond" and my personal favourite: the time that P.M. Kok visited president Bush (the younger one). I really love to think that about 20 million americans laughed when their president presented our Prime Minister to the american public as "my good friend, mr. Kok from the Netherlands" ....

Has someone mentioned the hilarious: I am the first woman state secretary from the inside and i just had my first period! And Joop den Uyl´s:We are a nation of undertakers. Well maybe it is or the best knowing that we are excellent undertakers!

Borrel is more for work drinks. At least for me. Every friday there is a borrel at my workplace

giving flowers as a present, to women and men.