If you plan to visit Holland, I am going to tell you a couple of curiosities about this beautiful country, which will raise your curiosity even more, the first one refers to the first monday of every month you will be there? And the other about hanging up the backpack and turning 50.
Okay, let's start with the first Monday of the month. It turns out that at 12 o'clock, at noon, the church bells accompany the sound of the sirens, from all the schools and public bodies.
Do not be scared by this custom of sound the sirens, it is simply a legacy of the Cold War, when the Netherlands felt especially vulnerable because of its situation and the conflict between the two blocs. There is no longer a Cold War, but they continue to be played as maintenance, to control their proper functioning. A curiosity within another curiosity, in Paris the sirens sound the first Wednesday of each month at 12 noon.
Obviously no one notices this anymore alarm, but to more than one tourist it has caused fear.
And now let's continue with the theme of hanging the backpack, when a study cycle is finished it is very typical hang the backpack that has been used during that period on the outside of one of the windows of the house, usually the most visible and if there is a flag, then better than better. If you walk through Holland in June you will see a lot of wallets hanging on the streets from residential neighborhoods.
Another thing they do on the windows is that when a baby is born in the house they stamp a stork in a window in the street, and if you see a giant inflatable doll, which is called Abraham or Satah, someone in the house is turning 50 years old.