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Hari Sabtu di Belanda

Biasanya hari sabtu di Belanda di awali dengan sleeping in alias molor!

Most of the people will party till drop kalo hari Jumat. Secara Oma uda tua, Oma lebih memilih di rumah, sipping a big mug of tea en nonton Samantha, Who? or Scrubs or Gossip Girl atau baca.

So, back to saturday. Hari sabtu diawali dengan sleeping in, lalu dilanjutkan dengan Brunch or breakfast in bed. Ya, pokoknya males mode on deh!

Nah, perlu diketahui kalau hari Sabtu adalah hari belanja grocery se Belanda :P Hehehe,.. semua orang akan belanja kebutuhan seminggu di hari ini, karena senin - jumat kan mereka kerja, dan perlu diingat, di Belanda tidak ada PRT, alias pembokat. Poor us!


Setelah belanja- belanja, mereka akan lanjut dengan shopping as window shopping atau bener-bener shopping di centrum: di pusat kota masing-masing, atau kadang ke kota lain untuk belanja. Ya, belanda kan kecil, tinggal naek kereta, en voila, uda ada di kota lain. Basically semua kota toko-tokonya more or less sama, cumaa ya experience en atmosphere aja yang beda.


Hari Sabtu juga bisa dibilang hari kunjung-kunjung atau hari ketemu teman. Di Belanda semuanya harus diplanning. So, biasanya mereka akan plan untuk ketemu teman atau mengunjungi rumah sodara di hari Sabtu. Bila berkunjung ke rumah sodara, orang belanda akan minum berliter-liter kopi sambil makan kue stroopwaffel (typical dutch cookies) atau boter cake (butter cake khas belanda).

Bila malam tiba, mereka akan makan malam, biasanya kalo mereka dining out, mereka akan pilih tempat-tempat yang gezellig (cozy), so that they can spend hours and hours to chat, gossip or just enjoy the culinary experience. Kalo mereka makan di rumah, mereka akan prepare sesuatu yang istimewa, yang tidak biasa disajikan di hari-hari lainnya.


Setelah makan malam, biasanya orang Belanda akan lanjut lagi ke cafe atau pub buat having fun, minum-minum atau sekedar ketemu teman-teman lagi.

And again, have fun till you drop. This time normally will be even dropper :P

Hari Minggu, sleeping in the whole day :P Biasanya hari Minggu jalan-jalan sepiiiii sekali. Dan mostly toko-toko tutup, kecuali di pusat kota di kota-kota besar.

Apa mereka ke gereja therefore jalan-jalan sepi? Hm,.. rarely. Only a few groups of people yang emang niat ke gereja hari minggu. Sisanya,.. bobok dengan nyenyaknya di rumah.

So,.. itulah weekend di Belanda.

Arti weekend buat Oma? Hm,... in the mean time, weekend equals catching up with my research, en of course, sipping a big big mug of coffee.

Have a nice weekend all.

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Comments

Samantha, who? kan uda ga berlanjut oma? ato aku ni yang ketinggalan berita....
Oma Nia said…
Lanjuuuuuuuuuutt, ada yang baruuu!!!

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