Strange.
Dutch people are not at all inclined to fly the national try colour. Hell there are only 3 days a year when you can see them on private residences. Queens day, which is a national holliday with all kinds of activities, and national rememberence day for the fallen of the second world war followed by liberty day (next day).
For the rest of the year it is just a peice of cloth to most of the dutch people unless there is a world championship footbal and our team is doing well. Hell, I've seen people wipe a blackboard with the flag because no other piece of cloth was nearby. "We'll wash it later and it's be okay" was the comments that went with it.
It also looks like the upper bar is more lightist red then deep red and therefor it could also be the flag of Luxenbourg. They have a very similar flag where the colours are only slightly lighter. These two territories used to be one nation in the past, but some political issue (having a women as head of state = queen) caused a split.
Attendence at Texel was seriously down. I think less then 400 boats. But that is still a good crowd
Wouter
Flags scare me, especially here. While in the miliary, I had to salute the flag. I'm okay with that, but I had to swear to defend the Constitution, "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Here especially, people forgot the substance of patriotism is in the law, not a symbol.
Scarey stuff.
