weather

Amsterdam weather continues to amaze and befuddle. Last Sunday was gorgeous; sunny, light breeze, 68 degrees. Everybody was out and about or parked in a south facing chair outside their apartment building (a common sight). Things were looking good. Birds were chirping. Buds were buddin'. Green stuff greening. One could have thought, "ah, at last Spring is here."

Wrong.

Back to cloudy, intermittent rain, 48 degrees, 30 mph wind.

Ukraine bad; Netherlands good

The majority of Dutch people who went to the polls in the Netherlands on Wednesday to express their opinion on the proposed association agreement between the EU and Kiev have rejected it, an exit poll has shown. Sixty-one percent voted against the Netherlands ratifying the treaty, which would strengthen economic and political ties between the 28-nation bloc and Kiev, an exit poll conducted by the Ipsos center shows. Some 38 percent of the voters supported the move, the exit poll has shown.
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