We spent Saturday and Sunday in Veghel, the village where Rahel grew up.
Rahel's mother Jeanne and her partner Ben graciously fed us enormous meals, and we had a really nice and relaxing rest of the weekend.
On Saturday we walked down to the usually sleepy Veghel market. Several blocks away from the Village square we could hear pumping techno, and as we got closer we saw a gang of teenage girls crowded around a figure, taking photos with their cell phones. We joined the crowd to see what it was all about, but neither of us had any idea who the celebrity was. We ran our errands and came back half an hour later to find the remaining stragglers still crowded around the figure on the right in black. Rahel asked two young girls in hijab who he was and their amazement at our ignorance was apparent even to a non-Dutch speaker. 'Denis!' they said, 'from the GOLDEN CAGE!' This was a reality show on Dutch TV last summer, in which anyone could pay 10,000 Euros to spend a year living in a palatial house, and the person who stayed on the property for the most consecutive days got to keep the place. The predictable result was a bunch of people driven insane by cabin fever, being cruel to each other in an effort to get the others to leave the house. Apparently Denis now has a singing career and is doing a series of public appearances in village squares to promote his new album...
Rahel's mother Jeanne and her partner Ben graciously fed us enormous meals, and we had a really nice and relaxing rest of the weekend.
On Saturday we walked down to the usually sleepy Veghel market. Several blocks away from the Village square we could hear pumping techno, and as we got closer we saw a gang of teenage girls crowded around a figure, taking photos with their cell phones. We joined the crowd to see what it was all about, but neither of us had any idea who the celebrity was. We ran our errands and came back half an hour later to find the remaining stragglers still crowded around the figure on the right in black. Rahel asked two young girls in hijab who he was and their amazement at our ignorance was apparent even to a non-Dutch speaker. 'Denis!' they said, 'from the GOLDEN CAGE!' This was a reality show on Dutch TV last summer, in which anyone could pay 10,000 Euros to spend a year living in a palatial house, and the person who stayed on the property for the most consecutive days got to keep the place. The predictable result was a bunch of people driven insane by cabin fever, being cruel to each other in an effort to get the others to leave the house. Apparently Denis now has a singing career and is doing a series of public appearances in village squares to promote his new album...
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