Sunday: Hili dialogue

December 7, 2014 • 3:41 am

One week from today (at least at this time in the Netherlands), I’ll be laying over at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, waiting for a second flight to Delhi.  If any readers know of good noms or other interesting stuff in the airport (apart from the flies painted on the urinals), let me know. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili has the same concerns. She now weighs 5 kg: a hefty size for a female cat!

Hili: We don’t have a moment to lose.
M: What’s the matter?
Hili: We are starving.
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In Polish:
Hili: Nie mamy chwili do stracenia!
Małgorzata: Co się stało?
Hili: Umieramy z głodu.

 

17 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

  1. The flies on the urinals are in fact bees. The generic word for the bee is Apis. Should be easy to work that one out.

  2. I’m going to have to quote Douglas Adams:

    It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth
    has ever produced the phrase, ‘as pretty as an airport.’

    Actually, Schiphol is completely modernised and not that ugly, but like most airports, completely aimed at profits to be obtained by having captive passengers pay ridiculous prices for anything more than sitting in a straight chair and chewing gum.

  3. Schipol hosts a small branch of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the famous repository of historical art. That may be closed due to renovations currently – the note about it on Schipol’s website is very vague.

    WRT the noms, in my experience Schipol mostly offers over-priced and underwhelming food. My favourite is the Dutch Kitchen, where you can try out sweet Dutch treats like pofferetjes (little sugar coated puffed up pancakes) and stroopwaffels (sticky sweet cookies made of thin waffles and syrup). Here is a list of the various providers of noms behind passprt control.

    1. Poffertjes and stroopwafels are indeed great. I would further recommend some kind of whole wheat sandwich with Old Amsterdam cheese. I know they have it in the US, but it’s a favourite of mine …

  4. Nab one of the vibrating chairs in the massage lounge and curl up for a snooze in the sunshine. It is really good if you are in the middle of a long haul flight.

  5. 5Kg = 11 lbs. It’s been my observation that grey stripey cats tend to run to larger sizes than others. Summer-the-little-stripey-cat is nowadays just Summer-the-stripey-cat. Can other readers confirm, or refute, this observation?

    1. My torbie, at her most chublet, weighed 15lbs. I put her on a diet and got her down to a healthy 9lbs. My current kitty is an Abyssinian, and she tops out at 7lbs, being a much smaller animal vs the Torbie.

    2. Our deceased gray stripey cat that looked almost identical to Hili weighed a whopping 15 pounds and wasn’t much bigger than Hili. We called her Kono Lardbutt Rainboweyes.

  6. Schiphol these days is a huge disappointment. When I first went through there around 1980 it was one of the earlier airports to have abandoned the prison-like departure gates; now they are back, with individual security checks to get into each. In fact, the whole place is obsessed by security. It used to have lots of little snack bars; now most seem to have vanished. It used to have a reasonably priced restaurant that did excellent breakfasts, now replaced by a posh (and expensive) one; who needs haute cuisine after an overnight long-haul flight? It used to have shops that sold local preserved meats and cheese at sensible prices; now the prices are through the roof.

    1. I’m afraid I have to agree. And with the rebuilding that is going on at the moment (I flew from Schiphol a month ago) it’s pretty awful, with half of the shops and restaurants closed and large areas boarded up.

  10. The best thing about Schiphol for transit passengers is that it has showers. The worst thing about that is that there are only 2 showers.
    Food is of the forget variety.

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