Yes Autumn is here and its gorgeous in the Luberon. Despite my focus on positive events happening, and yes there are quite a few if I wear the right glasses but in reality lots of truly bad stuff is happening. Let's take a tour around the world. The Presidential debates in the US are of the lowest possible level, despite a health crisis the Toddler in Chief can't finish even a decent phrase and is not able to let his opponent speak. Total rubbish. The Dutch Royal Family goes on holiday at there villa in Greece while the Netherlands is in serious trouble and close to a state of panic. Finally after 2 days King Willy and Maxi returns, the irony is that the Dutch Prime Minister gets the blame for the Royal blooper. In France an ordinary school teacher is beheaded in a Parisian suburb by a muslin extremist. Ajax plays a good game in the Champions League but lost against Liverpool thanks to an own goal. The trade war between the US and China is running in overdrive, insane measures are being taken, whilst the Trump administration is clueless of the damage they are creating in their homeland. Farm subsidies are over 35BN with stuff to produce they can't sell anymore because the buyer was, yes indeed China. Lot's of examples are there.
In the meantime Covid-19 is spreading solidly with infected people on weekly basis in the ranges of the Netherlands +10K, France +50K and the US +90K and even now the best kid in the school class Germany is getting up there. President Macron announced a lockdown of minimum 4 weeks, starting today Oct-30. Lucky me I was able to travel shortly to Amsterdam and London and two observations, the weather in both cities was simply horrible and hardly anyone was wearing mouth-masks. Boris Johnson might aspire the Brits to pay more attention to their diet, interesting enough on my roundtrip Marseille-London Heathrow, British Airways served the greasiest crisps I have ever seen, a small bottle of water and a Belgian chocolate chip cookie! Way to go BoJo. Needless to say that the BA crew served their customers in their most uninspiring way, which I totally understand, in a few weeks or months they will be without a job. Ajax blasted VVV with a 0-13 score, highest ever in the Dutch league, few days later they wasted a 2-0 halftime lead in the Champions League against Atalanta Bergamo. I think this is symptomatic for the Dutch and Ajax in particular.
Yesterday the world received bad news again: a French church was attacked, three people were stabbed to death in Nice, yes again, this appears to be clearly again a terrorist attack. It's sad what kind of world are we living in today and are we transmitting to our next generations. My next blogs will have a more positive tone!
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