Holland American

... pretty well.  Most of the music is our American tunes (many oldies that I really love) and they learn a lot by listening to American TV shows.  Sometimes they will use a bad word when they don't know that it isn't proper and you realize just how ...

... you can hang your hat on it we resigned ourselves to the long flight to the US for my brothers wedding to his American girlfriend Eileen. The wedding was in Boulder, Coloradro. The university town of Boulder lies in the foothills of the Rocky mountains, ...

... thank the Dutch for licorice (what they call drops!) 4) Gouda (pronounced more like HOW DUH) is also Dutch 5) Apple pie isn't as American as we say it is..because, yes, it too originated from The Netherlands! 6) (My favorite) We actually get our cookies ...

... apartment sort of buildings but it still has two levels but I wouldn't really call it a duplex cause it's half the size of an American house. The way of living here is just not the same. We bought our groceries for the next two days then chatted over a ...

... to fighter pilot medals. From there, feeling more than satisfied by what we had seen and done in a single day, we went to a American Football game at Hamilton High School, home of the Hamilton Hawkeyes. Yeah, that's the game with the ball that's the ...

... shoes...tall, blonde young men in suits. Ahem. Already, my Spanish is working better. I'm speaking it almost exclusively. I'm going to say this isn't out of some weird uncultured American inferiority complex. Okay? Goal: Rome. Objective: Sleep. ...

... and the towering Dutch really made us feel small in stature. Funny quote: "Now that's gotta hurt," exclaimed a sweet American grandmother upon scrutinizing an Amsterdam storefront picture of some wild sex act. And then there was this excerpt from ...

... I politely nudged her and pointed out that people were staring at her and she said, who cares! I am sure they are thinking only an American would brush their teeth in public! That Kady, I think you have right on. We ended up having a delay here as well, ...

... morning we arrived in Rotterdam to people lining the River Maas to greet the ship...the dutch people have a great affection for Holland America as the companies headquarters were here until the '70s and many dutch have been employed by the company.  ...

... attack. The place and the people were really creeping us out....but we’re not the kind of people to turn down a good American Buffet so we agreed to stick it out on condition that we run at the first sight of anyone wearing any form of hooded cloak ...

... Detroit Cobras in the past. The gate was padlocked, doors were all closed no band in sight...We decided to walk over to The American Hotel and see if we could locate Eddie Harsch, who had played in John's Motor City Blues Scholars in the past and is good ...

... guy says we need to cross the track and get on that train. We have no Dutch money, and the ticket machine doesn't accept American or credit cards. We decide to just jump on the train, and if we get caught, call our hotel and have someone bail us ...

... of American in them. Everyone wore French clothes, spoke French, walked French, but occasionally I'd see an American T-Shirt, billboard, or fastfood place. In Holland, I feel like I'm among Americans with a hint of Dutch in them. Perhaps I feel this way ...

... wide open for drug trade, and by American business to bring in cheap labor from third world countries to lower American wages and living standards. Which they have accomplished. America's politicians are traitors and slime.... Obama is the worst. ...

... , I noticed the name of the bookstore for the first time: the American Bookseller. The American Bookseller? I thought. What makes it American? It’s all erotic art and pop culture. When I entered I noticed for the first time the store actually has ...

... to American football as I'm going to get here. Third, it fascinates me that every sport the Americans love (ie. baseball, basketball, American football, and hockey), the vast majority of the world could care less about and yet all of the "world" sports, ...

... with fuzzy orange stuff on top of it. We had to blend in, you know. It was truly amazing. I loved it, being a big American soccer fan myself; it was terrific to see how excited and into the game everyone got. Sadly, Holland lost, and you could feel ...

... agree on) but still couldn't see why he was being offensive. It was a genuinely uncomfortable situation. It made confusing an American for Canadian like calling a Coke Pepsi. And that was the overwhelming memory I had while I was in Rotterdam -- when ...

... we have not participated in anything yet, since it's usually bars and clubs, but this sounded fun. The performance was Aaron Copeland, an American Jew. It was about an hour-long program. This was my first time at a symphony so a lot of my time was ...