One of the pleasures of travel is in taking delight in the simple things. This year's nofear cultural bummel was to Daneland, and more specifically Zeeland.
Whilst taking in the sites, sounds and smells of this country we became aware of the prevalence of the sound of unstifled coughs, hawkings and phlegmings of the inhabitants of this island. All around us, men, young and old alike, seemed to revel in the acoustic resonance of their lungs, throats and mouths. To such an extent sometimes that we wondered weather or not there was a biological attack in progress. (Although some may say that in many ways this was a biological attack)
There was insufficient time to determine whether or not the behaviour was sociological or a product of the environment, being close to the sea air. During our trips to the 'Netto' supermarket chain we noticed the feast of cough drops and pastilles available for sale, of which the photo above is an example of just one.
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