They still wear wooden shoes here, but only when they garden. At least that's what my host family does. Mariet is the pharmacist (apotheeker in Dutch) and her husband Ed is a high school manager (principle) and they have two children Jan-Willam who's 19 and Annelie who is 15.
The legal drinking age is 16!! When they go out to the diskotechs they leave at 8pm, stay up all night and return home at 5-6am. They listen to the same music and watch the same movies and TV shows as we do. They do have coffeeshops where it's tolerated to buy and smoke marijuana but it's not socially accepted and very few teenagers and college students actually partake.
They do not have ice here and so I'm drinking very tepid water, which kind of sucks since it's 33^C and very humid!! Oh well, I'm in Europe!!!
