I Have A Friesian Passport Now
I don’t think it gets any more official than this; a Friesian passport and country sticker (given to me by my parents-in-law). I had no idea that I had been illegally visiting Friesland without official documentation for all these years. I now keep my Friesian passport with me at all times when I am crossing ‘the boarder’ into Holland. The train conductor does seem a bit confused whenever I show it to him with my ticket though.
The country sticker has been added to my car as an indication of my willingness to integrate (they don’t need to know that I still spend a lot of time in Holland). I expect that I will soon start to receive the secret Friesian benefits that come from having such a sticker (free parking, cheaper petrol, the right to overtake tractors, etc).
Next step is learning the Friesian anthem, which luckily is in my Friesian passport, next to the page advertising the model railway in Sneek.
I will keep you updated on the progress of my move to Friesland.
Congrats on your new citizenship!
Arr. ‘Ee be Frieshun now. I carn’t be trus’n of ’em furners!
The real Friesian anthem, for integration sake:
“Frysk bloed tsjoch op! Ik moat sa noadich pisje
It wetter stiet my oan ‘e knibbels ta
It moat d’r út as sil’t in daalder kostje
Sa`n hege wetterstân kin ik net ha
Memmie oh Memmie, helje de pot
Helje de griene, want de reade is kapot” (bis)
You only must change your domain name to invadingfriesland.com
Ok, the last war was ages ago http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fries-Hollandse_oorlogen, but you never know.
As a native dutch guy from rotterdam i think someone is messing with you, not sure though. Don’t know a heckload about friesland except if has awesome sailing areas.
Just discovered your blog because I’m looking up things about Friesland (we’re heading there for the weekend from Belgium). I laughed out loud numerous times so I’m now going to click through all the posts until it’s time for dinner.