Following up on Buzzfeed's Thanksgiving post in where Brits are trying to label the United States, I thought I'd do something similar and see how good my friends' geographical skills are.
I asked my Dutch friends to locate London, Bristol, Blackpool and Leeds on the English map (not all listened to the instructions as you can see - stubborn Dutchies!) and my English darlings had a go at positioning main Dutch cities on the map of The Netherlands.
I was fairly confident my British friends R, L, D & BF would be able to point out Amsterdam.. Until R. asked me how she could locate one of the allocated cities on the Dutch map: "Isn't Amsterdam a country?" and L. said she had never heard of any of these cities. Oh dear!
I didn't doubt my boyfriend for a second, nor did he lack any confident himself: "Of course I know it, The Hague the lovely town beside the strand dunes bottom left, just in land is old Anna Frank and the prozzies! Up top is Groningen, last is German Limburger Maastricht". Not sure about his way of describing the cities, but well done for paying attention during geography lessons (or for being so interested in the Netherlands because of having a Dutch GF!)
R. thought Groningen was at the bottom, as it had the shape of a groin and the city sounds like it. Err..... interesting thought process babes! L. on the other hand was 100% certain that Amsterdam was all the way at the top, wrongo!
Have a look at their answers:
Overall not a great score, 9/16 were correct.
Over to my friends back at home to see if they can do it better. Dutch gal, E. already honestly admitted she only knew London - and guessed the rest. D. clearly did not trust the list of cities I provided her with, and replaced Leeds with Sheffield. So did F. though, she decided to point Liverpool out instead of Blackpool. Sigh, they are so obstinate. Or has my preparation over time proven to be that questionable? My good friend S. knew them all of by heart, but has lived in the UK for a year so I would have been disappointed if she'd failed.
The Dutchesses managed to get 10 out of 16 - hurraaay!!
Can you do it better? I certainly can't......
Liefs,
Dutchy xx
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