A Rare Sunny Day

Most of Holland is supposed to be under the ocean. I think of this whenever I ride a train through the countryside, which is utterly flat and criscrossed with endless canals. I think of mud flats at the bottom of the ocean, channels carved by random currents.

This summer, the world has evidently decided to put the country back underwater. The rain has been unrelenting for two weeks, heavy curtains of it driven horizontal by the wind off the North Sea. So far we've NOT gone to Luxembourg or Amsterdam, and I've also managed NOT to go to Utrecht or Delft to work in a sunny outdoor cafe by the medieval canals, because there have been no sunny days.

Except today. Today when I have client calls scheduled for the afternoon and can't go anywhere. Whee.

My goal for living and working in the Netherlands is to take one work day a week as a field trip--go to some new town, do some work in a pretty place, spend a leisurely afternoon wandering and exploring. So far the weather hasn't cooperated, so I'm playing it by ear and trying to leave my schedule open for unexpected sunny days (so far the weather sites have been really undependable). I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that today isn't the only nice day this week.

It's also been cold, even in sunlight--not much higher than 65 Fahrenheit. I have to say I'm obsessively jealous of New Yorkers and their heat wave.

Back to work...