Most of Cor-rupt’s customers were in their 20s and 30s. The age at which a lot of people started to have children. So, we saw a steady increase in the number of children and, although it was not the custom in the Netherlands to take children to your local, things like a picnic or games […]
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Linda’s anecdotes
Matchmaking
I first met my husband-to-be on a very drunken Saturday afternoon in Cor-rupt. I was usually an after-work client, but a friend from The Hague was in Amsterdam for the weekend. Her partner was returning from Saudi the next day, and she was collecting him from Schiphol. Many vieuxs on my part and many biers […]
Cheers
Early one evening after work, as I sat at the bar, Cor shared a story. Some new, very well-spoken English customers had chanced into the Bar. As they ordered their drinks, one gentleman asked in his best Oxford English, “Excuse me my man, how does one say Cheers in Dutch?” I could say that Cor […]