The Dutch website indebuurt.nl (in the neighborhood) usually has a photo series called Toen & Nu or Then & Now. Today’s photo series only showed a difference of four days, but it was an important four days: 13 December and 16 December. In other words, before and after the five week lockdown came into effect.
Toen & Nu: Foto’s van het Haagse centrum voor en tijdens de lockdown
Is it bad that my first thought was “Oh! Glad to see the oliebollenkraam is still open.”? Maybe a bit.
Above is one of our Christmas decorations – the hanging gingerbread men. It was another Royal Christmas Fair purchase from a few years ago.