Dear Amsterdam: I Have Some Questions...

[bjarvis]

Dear Amsterdam: I have some questions.

It’s a lovely city and I’m so happy to be here, but there are somethings I don’t understand.

1. What’s up with this obsession with pancakes? Seriously, there are pancake houses everywhere. I do love pancakes, but this city’s obsession is borderline creepy.

2. You willingly admit the entire country is carved out of a swamp. Having now been driven through a fair chunk of the countryside, I see that the whole canal & drainage ditch system with its pumps and water management systems is truly amazing. But there is water freaking everywhere… how is there not an unimaginable mosquito problem? Indeed, why is the entire country not already dead from some combination of malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and west nile virus?

3. Similar to the mosquito mystery above: with so much aquatic habitat, why is this country not 20 feet deep in hundreds of billions of ducks? The Netherlands should be a duck paradise… so why are there so few? Is someone eating them when I’m not looking? Do you secretly have an alligator problem you're not tell us about?

Just curious.

Luv,
Brian

Comments

[apparentparadox]

Mosquitos only breed in still water without enough fish to eat the eggs. If the water is flowing, there are probably fish, and they're eating all the eggs/larvae.