Saturday, May 1, 2010

Happy Belated Walpurgisnacht

I usually make it a point to engage in Walpurgisnacht revelry... typically with the Dutch expatriate crowd. With the business of starting a new job, while juggling the hours at the old job, I was unable to do so this year (first missed Koninginnedag in five years). I should have been singing with a couple of hundred drunks:





Het kleine café aan de haven was written in 1975 by the guy who wrote the Smurfs' song, and an English-language adaptation by the Fureys has become a beloved staple wherever people get drunk and maudlin together.

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