These feet are too big for Holland...

I made it happen.

This morning, I witnessed the first accident involving a go kart (pictured above).  Well, when I say witnessed, I mean heard. Two lads, both about 5-6 years old, one in a go kart and one on a bike, were having a bit of a race. I stepped aside as they were clearly oblivious to my presence on the road and as they sped past, I carried on. A few seconds later from behind me I then heard the almighty racket of metal against metal and flesh against concrete.  I turned to see the boy on the bike laying on the floor howling in pain and it appeared as though the go kart had actually run him over.  I went over to assist and he had both elbows and knees grazed and bleeding, but no other obvious injuries.  These things do look like fun but they worry me.  Kids are forever just driving out through gaps in the hedges and any car driver just would not stand a chance of stopping and in my opinion it is a horrendous accident waiting to happen. I hope this is as bad as it gets and that there are no worse incidents, although later in the day I did see a young girl on Rollerblades nearly force a woman on a bike into a hedge.

Weather wise it was pretty darn good today and the girls stayed in and around the site, pool and theme park. Dawn and I went into Wassenaar to stock up on the food from the Supermarket, grab a spot of lunch and generally have a mosey about.  It's very pretty, check out these pics - 

 

In the evening we treated the girls to a meal at the on-site restaurant, La Place, which they seemed to enjoy and this nice family shot would have been even better had Madeline not decided to pull her "Special" face (check out bottom left).

Now, here's a fact: the average height of a Dutch man is 6'1" and rising.  No-one really knows for sure why this is but it's mainly attributed to diet and the fact that they eat Organic cows and drink their milk (not the 1% milk we tend to favour over in the UK).

This means that Dutch clothing should fit me easily and we discovered a Mens clothing store with a 50% sale on.  I settled for a Jack Jones "Hoodie" and was also going to grab a pair of tasty looking Boat Shoes in Navy Blue. However, not only did the store owner not have them in my size (12, or 47 in European sizing), he didn't possess a single pair of footwear in any style above a size 45!

Given the fact that the men are much taller, I would have expected the sizing to go up to 50, but no.

So, I can say that I have feet too large for the Dutch to handle.  And you know what they say about men with big feet, don't you?

That's right.  They have big shoes.