Today in Haarlem

Today we went to Haarlem, the Capital of Noord Holland province. Harleem is a small town close to Amsterdam. We thought the town is much bigger as always mentioned as the flower capital of Holland. But was rather disappointing. Not only it was small, but also lack character. By the way, the famous Harlem district in NYC owes its name from this town. It was named by the early Dutch settlers.

The clock will change starting mid night tonight. It will be forwarded by an hour meaning earlier rise in the morning and later sunset. The whole idea was to reduce use of energy in the evenings. It was said up to 10% energy could be saved by doing this as there will be one hour less usage of electricity in the evening.

This evening also coincides with Earth Hour where lights are switched off in many homes and cities around the world from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time. I am not really into this. It is a good effort. But if one is dragged into this just for the sake of being part of it but not doing any real effort now and later to save and care the environment, then that is hypocrite.