Grrrrrrr. The tour operator just emailed me to say that my flight to Istanbul is delayed. I won´t arrive in the morning but late in the evening instead. Bye first day! 

 Doesn´t the Dutch ever work?  You have more holidays than anyone I know.

Really!  All you evil cloggies do is dance in your clogs, skate around the dikes, hang out in your pot bars and go on vacation!    I am slightly jealous! 

Between holidays I work.... (I only have 50 days a year, that´s not too much is it?)

Are you in a teacher´s union?

Hmmm.... a little outdated. I´ll confess: I don´t have clogs, I cannot skate, I haven´t smoked pot in more than 20 years so the only things that´s left are holidays.

Civil servant union, yes. Why?

Mmm... and how long is the Turkish school summer-holiday exactly? Three months or something And not all Dutch people have vacation this coming week...

Poor you!

of course, she lives in the "communist" country with universal healthcare, 50 days of vacation and the ability to travel the whole world on a teacher´s salary.. lifestyle of a millionaire in the US.

You really should update your sources, CW. Communist? We? With Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders´ ideas spread along? (BTW which I decline.) Universal healthcare? The basic insurance covers less and less each day and the extra insurance packages are incredibly expensive (mine, miles away from the ´covering-all´ costs 120 Euros per month!!!! For only 1 person, so imagine what such an insurance costs for a family of 4!) And that teacher´s salary is, if my sources are right, less than a teacher´s salary in the US. 

So I´m hardly anything like a millionaire. (Reason why I still search for that rich, single and 85+ dudu..... )