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Hi All…
Any regular readers will have already noticed a bit of a slow-down in the blog postings here on Curious Orange… what can I say, it’s “cucumber time” (that’s what the Dutch call the summer months when everybody goes on vacation so absolutely no work gets done!).
And now, for me at least, it’s really cucumber [...]

Ok, the death of Walter Cronkite is not an obvious Curious Orange story.
But he was great. Really great. So I was reading about him… and I saw this quote in an AP article:
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title “anchorman” was first applied, and he became so identified in that role that his name [...]

Guest bloggers Anna Ritchie and Marijn Koolen tell us how to make your own traditional Dutch croquettes - apparently it’s pretty easy (though pretty messy too!). And you get to know exactly what’s in your version of these “mystery meat” snacks! Move over, Febo!
Ever wonder how those funny little snackbar batons are made? Ever thought [...]

So. As we said in the show, one of the things we wanted to do this week on the show was to treat our listeners to a nice meal… at one of the best restaurants in town. The choice was easy - de Kas.

As you might have guessed from the photo above, “kas” is [...]

Ok, when I add this to my canal-muck-dredging video, I know you’ll all think I’m a garbage-gunk-grossness junkie… but today I saw old bicycles being hauled out of one of the canals in Amsterdam… and it was so cool I just had to take some pictures!
Enjoy!
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So the Dutch army runs into Taliban insurgents pretty often. These encounters are often violent… and sometimes the Dutch capture some of the militants.
Which got me curious… were there detainees on the base? While we were there? There must have been… but we never saw any “detainment center”… and nobody ever talked [...]

Yup, the mortuary girls.
This was my shorthand name for Corporals Kimberly and Cisca - the only two people on Kamp Holland who work in the mortuary.
It’s not the only thing they do (they also work shifts as nurses in the hospital), but they’re the only ones who do it - so when somebody dies on [...]

In Afghanistan, soldiers see a lot of stuff that they wouldn’t normally see - poverty and pain and sadness in a population already devastated by decades of war. And sometimes you don’t even have to leave the base to see it - Afghan kids hang around the outer edges of Kandahar airfield
Lieutenant Rene, one of [...]

Deep inside Kamp Holland is Echos. We’ve mentioned it before, it’s the “bar” on the base where you can get a drink (alcohol-free) or a bite to eat, play video or board games, and just generally hang out with your friends.
Annelies is one of the people working at Echos. Her story is a peculiar [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s part three of our Dutch in Afghanistan series - On-Base, but Off-Duty.
We’ll take you for breakfast at the Afghan bakery, a portable lunch on the road, and, a little later on, a (non-alcoholic!) drink at Echo’s bar. And then it’s the weekend - with salsa lessons on [...]