I know some of you guys have seen these already... but if you haven't, it's true - sprinkles are put on bread here! Just take some white bread, butter it, and pour some sprinkles on and you have a Dutch sandwich.
Note the variety of flavors that the sprinkles are available in.
These sprinkles are actually quite good - they are made with real chocolate and they are not as waxy as the ones in the US. However, I think they would go better with ice cream than with bread...
This past weekend there was a big volleyball tournament on Texel. NIOZ had a team so I went to support them (and sometimes laugh at them). I think there were 30 teams in the tournament and there were 15 games being played at once. The tournament lasted all day Sat. and for part of the day on Sun. - so many games were played. Some of the teams were better than others... the NIOZ team was just playing for fun. The weather was actually nice and sunny (and almost hot)!
After the games a few of us found a BBQ spot in the forest and cooked some food. The bag of "Cool American" chips was consumed...
Here are some more images of the various animals on Texel. I found these strange hairy cows the other day... Someone told me that they're Scottish highland cows and that they are there to eat the vegetation to preserve the dunes (prevent them from being overgrown by the surrounding forest).
Some miniture horses...
And of course, more sheep!
I biked by this field of sheep a few days ago and as I approached ALL of the sheep turned towards me and started baahhhh-ing. It was creepy!
Some llamas that are in a field near my apartment.
Ok, I saw these weird looking vegetables in the store and I bought one just so I could take a picture of it. I think it is a cabbage (definitely not my favorite vegetable) and now I need to think of something to cook with it - or maybe I can feed it to the sheep...
I guess "spitskool" must be the Dutch word for "cabbage"?
These things really are bizarre looking!
Texel is full of these strange trees, which many people have in their gardens in front of their houses. From a distance it resembles a pine tree...
...but up close the leaves are more like a palm tree or a yucca plant.
I saw one tree that had a dried up white flower at the end of the branch.
Does anyone know what type of plant this is???
