Guus Bosman

Yesterday we went with out with Ramiro and Bella. We met in the early evening at the Cleveland Park metro station to go to the Dutch embassy. It was nice to see each other again, it had been a while.

We went to the embassy for the haring en paling evening: eel and herring were brought over from Holland for a get-together of the DC Dutch society.

It's was a busy evening, it's quite a popular event, of people of all ages. There were a lot of Dutch things to eat and drink. Of course herring and eel, but also Dutch wafers, gevulde koeken and there was Dutch music playing. I bought two packages of Dutch chocolate sprinkles (hagelslag).
At the party I met Petra in real life. She lives in Vienna and I visit her website regularly and we've been in contact for about a year. It was very nice to meet her in person.

We left the party around 20:30 o'clock and we drove to Adams Morgan, where we visited a small exhibition by three painters. We looked at the paitings for a while. The place was very crowded, it was a party and exhibition at the same time. We didn't stay very long but went to nearby Cuban bar, where we stayed long and had margarita's and mojito's. We danced on Latin music and had a good time. It was a very pleasant evening.

Herring and eel, being sold by a lady in a traditional Dutch costume.

A herring on a sandwich with onions, and Grolsch beer.

There were a number of items for sale, such Dutch wafers and chocolate sprinkles (hagelslag) and gevulde koeken .