Accidentally Dutch

Jogging

by · December 7, 2006

Jogging

Red faced, gasping for breath and trying not to collapse after finally catching up with my flat mate during my first evening jog in a long time I was barely able to wheeze out the words:

“Dam… I can’t… even keep up… with a thirty-three… year old smoker… with a bad… back.”

Yes, I have decided it is time to get back in shape again. It might take a little while but it seemed like a good idea to start the New Years resolution early.

If you see a red faced ginger Englishman in a jogging outfit face down on a Dutch street as he tries to recover from lung collapse you will know it is me. Wish me luck…. then call an ambulance.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

34 Responses

  1. Invader_Stu says:
    December 11, 2006 at 9:24 am

    JaG – I know there is one in Amsterdam down a shopping street near the V&D.

    vallyP – Maybe you will be after Jog4Blog :p

    roxanne – I get confused because the Dutch don’t use miles.

    Rose – Here it is 112

  2. Tenakalaz says:
    December 11, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    yeh but the Dutch being kind I believe 911 and 999 both work.

    Want anders zullen de engelse nooit geredden worden :)

  3. Invader_Stu says:
    December 11, 2006 at 11:27 pm

    Cures you bablefish and your not so good translation:

    Tenakalaz said: “Because differently the English never geredden will become.”

  4. Tenakalaz says:
    December 12, 2006 at 8:26 am

    hehehehe, otherwise the english would never be saved :)