The nearest small town to us, Varsseveld, is currently holding its annual four-day carnival. I went along to see the carnival parade last night. Nice atmosphere, with some good floats on show. A tradition in The Netherlands is to decorate the floats with thousands of flowers. There were some good examples last night. The most bizarre, however, was a float that represented a huge dung beetle, rolling an even larger ball of dung – the entire thing being covered in flowers and waste. Only in The Netherlands…

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