Hot Day

Today was quite hot. Temperature was reaching 30 degrees C so we ended up eating ice cream and drinking soft drink endlessly during the day. We made a lunch trip to Beverwijk and also to look around for anything worth a bargain.

The place was quite crowded although noticeably quite a number of stores were closed because the owners were away on vacation. So surprisingly, even during one of the busiest time of year for business at Beverwijk, some people could not be too bothered about reaping extra profit and prefer to enjoy themselves for a good break somewhere.

In general things are much cheaper here compare to those found in big chain stores. But there are also things that you would not find at normal stores. We saw this one - a pile of plastic clogs, each selling at one euro! They seem to be popular and comfortable to wear. But like all other cheap things one could already guess where they came from - PRC! Literally it seems the whole world is full of goods coming from China and yet they are still well behind other major economies. I can't imagine what it would look like when they reached the same economic level as the developed countries - we would most likely be completed awashed with China's products.