A little over 50 years ago Miffy, one of the Netherlands’ biggest export ‘products’, was introduced to the world by her creator Dick Bruna in a book that described how she lived in the dunes of Egmond aan Zee. The village now wants to turn itself into a “Nijntje” village (Dutch for Miffy and pronounced somewhere between NAYN-CHE and NINE-CHE). To do this the village association will place direction signs with a Miffy motif on the beach, and will build a Miffy boat that will be placed on the Nijntje aan Zee Pleintje. The latter is a pun, for “pleintje” is the diminutive of “plein,” square. The city of Utrecht already has a Nijntje Pleintje which was designed by Bruna’s son Marc.

The Nijntje aan Zee Pleintje will be located at the main beach entrance. The boat will be a pinck, a type of flat-bottom fishing vessel that was developed locally and used from the 17th through the 19th century when it stopped being competitive.

Via webregio.nl (Dutch). Source image: nijntje.nl.

One-way rest room mirror is a ‘good joke’

The new toilets at popular beach pavilion Parnassia close to Bloemendaal have a one-way mirror which allows men to spy on women using the ladies’ rest room, the Parool reports.

Owner Hans Slewe tells the paper he does not see what all the fuss is about. ‘We’ve not seen any naked women,’ he says. And no, he says, the mirror has not led to more men using the toilets.

‘It is not a peep show,’ he argues. ‘You look through a window and you can see the dunes and women washing their hands and checking their hair. The actual toilets are closed off. It is not sexist.’

But women, cannot look into the gents, the paper points out. And nor are the women aware that they are being looked at.

‘That’s the joke,’ says Slewe. ‘And 99% think it’s a good laugh. We’ve got 30 to 40 women working here and none of them have complained.’

(Link: Dutchnews.nl)

The winner of the boob job contest held by the Rotterdam Baja Beach Club can’t have the procedure done yet, as she is not old enough. The 20-year-old woman has to wait until she turns 21 this November, as the clinic doing the surgery believes it isn’t “responsible” yet. In November after Ms Visser turns 21, she can have the boob job done. Happy Birthday.

(Link: Fok.nl)

The Baja Beach Club in Rotterdam is holding a contest where women can win a free boob job. Already 150 women have signed up in the hopes of scoring a new pair. All the women have to do is send in a photo of themselves with a cover letter as to why they deserve ‘a bigger rack’ to the tune of 5000 euro. “We’ve gotten entries from women between the ages of 21 and 45, mothers and non-mothers.”

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