Richard Boom (boomboom aka boomvavavoom)
Here is my world!!!

Let us walk through my world....

When you look at this map of Europe then you can see an arrow pointing to my country Holland aka the Netherlands, famous for its cheese, wooden shoes, mills and tulips (which actually come from Turkey :-p ). What you also might have heared is the fct that prostitutes and pot is legalized. Well that is true and believe me...that is the best way of regulating it! The prostitutes even have their own official union which looks out for their wellbeing. It is not said that drugs and womentrades are now a thing of the past but at least it lessens it greatly!

Holland is a small country with 16 million people living on 45.000 square kilometers. The land is divided in provinces and in LIMBURG is where I live!! What can I tell you about Holland....well...we have a combination of a queen and an elected ministry. This combination works great and we like to call it a democratic monarchy.

The place I now live in with my family is Herten. Herten is a little place just outside of Roermond. My wife and me looked for a more quite place to live. We started out living together in Roermond however. Before that we came from our birthplaces Horn (mine) and Thorn (hers)

UPDATE: since April First 2004 we now live in the nice village called Vlodrop...follow the links (Vlodrop, Horn or Thorn) to see a map of our area...

Short history of the flag

The Dutch tricolour was first used in the second half of the 16th century when the Dutch provinces revolted against Spain. Their leader was Prince William of Orange. The flag was named "Prinsenvlag" ("Princeflag") after him. At first the flag was orange-white-blue, but later the orange stripe became red.
The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was established in 1581, but did not include the Southern Netherlands (nowadays Belgium and Luxembourg, which were united with the Netherlands 1815-1830). After the Eighty Years' War independence was recognised by Spain in 1648.

Most of the time under French occupation (1795-1813) Holland, called the Batavian Republic, had the same flag as during the Dutch Republic (end 16th c. -1795), and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1813-1940 and 1945-now): horizontal red-white-blue. Even Louis Napoleon, King of Holland 1806-1810, maintained this flag, and Dutch history says he did a good job and tried his best.
Only in the early days of French occupation (when Holland was the Batavian Republic, 1795-1806) a horizontal red-white-blue flag existed with a canton showing the "Virgin of Holland", and during incorporation in France (1810-1813) the French tricolore (vertical blue-white-red) predominated.

During the Second World War the red-white-blue was still the national flag, but its use was restricted by the German occupiers.

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