Middledom

Opa Dekker in Canada

Herman de Jong

~ Chapter Four

Canada has made an amazing impression on me. This nation with its big lakes, big forests and high mountains is a very impressive country for someone coming from the flat Netherlands. I don’t think it’s pleasant living in mountains. You cannot cycle there, unless you already have a bike with thirty gears. You can’t walk there, because you get dead tired from all that climbing. Driving is very dangerous with all those hairpin bends. So it is no wonder that sensible Dutch emigrants went to live in flatter areas such as Ontario.

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