signs

zolder en kelder opruiming in verband met verhuizing en stoppen met verzamelingen attic and cellar clearance because of moving and stopping with collections

U neemt een hond en wij hebben voor onze deur de stront!!! Een hondenkakje hoort in het zakje! You have a dog and we have for our door the shit!!! A dog poo belongs in the bag! In Dutch it rhymes.

Almere is one of the newest cities in the Netherlands. The police has closed down the railway lines to and from Almere.

In recent years we've seen buses saying sorry, now builders are sorry too.

HBS is an abbrevation for Hogere Burgerschool (Higher Civic School). It existed from 1863 to 1968. HBS was a school type that originally was intended to be an end education, not a preparation for the university. Later it did prepare students, first for the technical and economical universities. Over the years more and more university faculties allowed HBS students, but to the end in 1968 if you wanted to study law, theology or the arts, you had to go to a gymnasium (grammar school). Now the building houses the Visser ’t Hooft lyceum.

In the 1980s "nuclear-free towns" sub-signs were popular, nowadays it is "fairtrade town".

Apparantly fish can have nationalities.

Turn off engine – leave garage

The Crowned Shepherdess. Tobacco shop of Egbert Broers, established 1883. Corner of Fnidsen and Mient.

The student of the Dutch language who has learnt the word for cyclist (fietsers) and the word for moustache (snor), might be surprised by the word snorfietsers, apparantly meaning cyclists with a moustache, which are not allowed to enter this street. Snorfietsers has a different meaning, it means people on a low-speed moped (Vmax 25 km/h). Snorren can also mean to whirr, an imitation of the sound of the engine.

Postman please slide the mail under the door.