Orangemaster’s favourite postings of 2009
This year it’s my turn to do a list of top stories we’ve featured.
- I still talk about the skating we did in early January along with this classic Dutch skating story: Winter fever Dutch style and time off.
- Two major Amsterdam icons died this year: artist Robert Jasper Grootveld and poet Simon Vinkenoog.
- This was world sports news we couldn’t ignore: Netherlands beats England at cricket and all kinds of records broken by Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar (the roll went on into March 2009).
- As far as cool Dutch apps go Layar wins hands-down World’s first mobile Augmented Reality browser. And Apple in the US scared of a coffeeshop app is sad.
- This is still very surreal: André Rieu plays in famous Australian soap and gets his own postage stamps.
- Fox News slamming Amsterdam without any facts to back it up made students produce excellent videos: Game on: Dutch guys keep kicking Fox News’ lies and It’s anarchy here, Fox News said so!
- For anybody who missed it, our most viewed posting this year is Man found not guilty after blacking out hospital. The entire gaming community linked to it!
- Prince Willem-Alexander saying rude things in Spanish was a real fiesta: Dutch prince insults Mexicans by mistake.
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy New Year! Our resolutions for 2010 are to take more pictures and make more videos, and continue to post the good stuff. Please send us more stuff, too!
Always nice to read 24oranges and pass on postings to my friends in NL and America. My American friends now realise that Holland ain’t just wooden shoes, cheese, windmills or tulips!
Happy New Year to you, too. Today I’ve made oliebollen for tomorrow, too! (Who needs the Rose Bowl!) :)