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TRUGO AUSSIE RULES No Aussie rules here so far, but CRICKET
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Royal
Dutch Cricket Board http://www.kncb.nl/ you can’t just join
in with this lot for a bat (and not to be confused with the Dutchbats…) Not so much a sport as a national obsession, as you will no
doubt have noticed. The bicycle (fiets)
and the cyclist (fietser) are “protected traffic objects” here and you’ll find
that in event of an accident, the car driver will almost inevitably be deemed
guilty. Dinking is quite legal, you can
ride two abreast, and Dutch mothers seem to find it a challenge to see how many
kids they can transport with one bicycle.
So yeah, if you come across someone cycling down the wrong side of the
road, drunk, with no lights and wearing dark clothes – be very careful not to
hit him, or you’re in trouble! Don’t
fight it – join them! Excellent cycle
paths (which are also de-iced in the winter), cycle path signs (they’re the
ones with red letters), cycle route maps, hotels which cater to cycle holidays,
lots of convenient ramps for wheeling your bike up and down steps, hardly a
hill in sight, and the liberty to careen over the road at any time, with little
danger to your life. But be careful to
lock it. As they say, stealing bicycles
is considered a sport in Tour
de Amsterdam (NH) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tour-de/amsterdam
A social/fun cycling club, to quote: “Tour de Amsterdam was founded in July
2001 by Anna Holtzman, a New Yorker in DIVING Randstad
Harings Diving Club www.randstad-harings.demon.nl/ for those new to
sport diving as well as the seasoned veteran.
The only open BS-AC ( British Sub Acqua Club) branch in Website with all the golf clubs in the country http://www.golfeurope.com/euro_clubs/the_netherlands.htm I would have liked to put in “bush walking”, but as there’s
no bush here to walk in (at least, not as we know it) this seemed the next best
thing. The Dutch call it “wandelen”, and
it is considered a sport. You’ll see
them wandelen about the countryside, especially (but not only) on sunny days,
often dressed for the part in comfy clothes, maybe with gaiters, maybe with a
stick, often with a day pack. Oldies do
it, families with young kids do it… it’s just like bushwalking, except it’s all
flat and not nearly as many wild animals.
Oh, and there are often nice pancake cafés along the way! Although you can do it anywhere, any time
(another good use for bicycle paths) there are also specific routes you can
take. You can get hiking maps
(wandelkaarten) from the ANWB (auto club) and from the VVV. http://wandel.pagina.nl/
has lots of details (NL Pieterpad
The most famous of the Dutch longer hiking routes is the Pieterpad,
so called as it goes from Pieterburen (Gr) on the northern coast in the north to Sint Pieterberg (L) in the hilly south
east. As it’s a total of 485km many
people do it over a few years. It is
divided into 27 stages, and there are books, maps and websites about the route,
where to overnight, etc. Details can be
found on http://pieterpad.pagina.nl/ (NL)
The Dutch pray fervently every year for an icy winter. Snow doesn’t matter; in fact it ruins the
ice, so better none at all. As soon as
it freezes you’ll see marks at the edge of the canals and ditches, where people
(mostly little boys) have been testing the ice.
And as soon as it’s possible, they’ll be out on it. The Dutch prefer to use long ice skates to
the ones we’re used to seeing (which are only used here for figure skating or
ice hockey) as they’re better for distance skating. If it’s a good icy winter, you’ll find there
may be lakes, canals and so on that are set aside especially for skating, as
well as special routes that you can take for much longer distances. There are also cafés alongside the water
which can open right up and remove their floorboards, so you can skate up to
the bar. http://www.natuurijsschaatsen.nl
has info on routes and starting points, often at one of these bars. (NL) These are called skeelers in the
Not to be
confused with rugby league (see below)... Amsterdam (NH) http://www.aacrugby.com/ AAC Rugby Club Breda (ZH) http://www.bredaserugbyclub.nl/
(NL) Eemland http://www.rceemland.nl/
(NL) Haarlem (NH) http://www.rugbyclubhaarlem.nl/ (NL)
Uden (NBr) http://www.octopusrugby.nl/ (NL) Utrecht (U) http://www.tte.nl/urc/ Utrecht Rugby Club (NL) WOMEN’S Dutch Women’s QUAD
(WHEELCHAIR) Quad AT THE
NEIGHBOURS Vlamse Rugby Bond http://user.online.be/~cd01448/brb/vrb/ruginf.html umbrella site (NL) Leuven http://www.rugbyclubleuven.be/rclwatis.html
Please
don’t ask me the difference betweeb rugby and rugby league... I still don’t
quite get the difference between footy & rugby. I’m just taking their word for it! Rugby League Holland http://www.rugbyleagueholland.com/ umbrella website promoting Rugby League as a
new sport in the
RUNNING Hash House Harriers in:- Amsterdam (NH) http://www.harrier.nl/ based in Amsterdam (NH) Assen (Dr) www.assenh3.net
And I don’t mean windsurfing! The Dutch call this
“golfsurfen” which is an even better image… best
surf beaches in the Holland
Surfing Association http://www.surfing-hsa.com/
(NL) official website Surf
Holland http://www.surfholland.com
(NL) portal for “golf surfing” (wave surfing) Surfers
Heaven http://surf.to/surfersheaven/
another good Dutch site (but in English) for surfers, with wave conditions,
links to Dutch beach cams (stop giggling!) and even surf chat. Every Monday night starting at
TRUGO Trugo-site: http://www.extremecroquet.org/about/trugo.html De bedoeling van het spel is dat een
authentieke rubberen stootring met behulp van een houten hamer tussen de benen
door, achterwaards weggeslagen wordt . Op afstand van ongeveer 25 meter (een
wagonlengte) is een poortje van ongeveer 1.50 meter (spoorbreedte) opgesteld. De
ring moet door dit poortje. too
many to mention http://windsurf.pagina.nl/ has all
the links. Due to the large amount of
wind and water here, this is an excellent country to windsurf in kitesurfing
http://www.kitesurfschool.nl/engels/main.htm
an alternative YACHTING Netherlands International Yacht
Club location: Oude Wetering
tel: 0172–518437 or 070–3821357 YOGA yoga
classes http://www.yogayoga.nl/en/index.html
Daily Hatha Yoga classes in OTHER DUTCH
CLUBS OF YOUR SPORT http://sport.pagina.nl/
(NL) This page is full of links to all sorts of sports, including
national clubs, local clubs, stadiums, etc.
If you’re wondering, “korfbal” is netball, and “honkbal” is
baseball! There are even Dutch climbing
clubs http://www.climbing.nl/ –
about as natural as SOME
TRADITIONAL DUTCH SPORTS… vierdaagse
– four day walk A wonderful Dutch idea! Basically it works like this: you register
and get a card. For 4 consecutive days
you walk, together with thousands of others, along a set route, getting your
card stamped on the way – a good way to see your new home town. At the end you get a little medal to show
you’ve done it. Lots of towns and
villages hold a “four dayer” each
summer. The one in my village (Boskoop)
is for 10km each evening. The internationally famous vierdaagse is held in vierdaagse
– by bike, canoe, or in the pool
Many towns also organise other versions of the vierdaagse, with
marathons for cyclists, canoers and swimmers.
Check local papers. most of the remaining traditional sports are
to be found in elfstedentocht
– ice skating marathon http://www.elfstedentocht.nl/en/english.htm
held as soon as conditions allow it, generally about once every decade. Entrants skate the 200km course in one day
which passes through eleven cities in wadlopen
– walk to an island! http://www.wadlopen.net/ (NL)
wadlopen is a masochistic sport - you walk over mudflats from the mainland to
an island whilst the tide is out (“walk” is putting it mildly – you haul your
legs out of calf-deep squelchy, mud then plunge them back in, over and
over…). Strictly with a registered guide
only as it is quite dangerous otherwise.
Makes you aware of muscles you never knew you had. But you see seals, and the experience of
standing in the middle of what seems to be the ocean is unforgettable. A basic walk is pretty cheap. skutsjesilen
– yachts http://www.skutsjesilen.nl/ (NL)
traditional (and stunning) Friesian yachts.
They race each year in summer, but you have to be Fries to enter. But you can still get lessons, go for a trip
on one, or hire one for a holiday (http://botenverhuur.pagina.nl/
and look under the heading skutjes) fierljeppen
– pole vaulting over ditches http://www.pbholland.com/
Another sport mainly practiced in … AND THEN THERE’S ALWAYS THIS… boomerang
throwing http://www.etlaare.demon.nl/abo.html
website of the official boomerang association in NL, the “Algemene Boemerang
Organisatie” (which gives them a most unfortunate acronym). Details on courses, competitions, etc. (NL) dragon boat racing http://www.ehdc1.org location: Amsterdam (NH)
The oldest dragon boat racing club in the |
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