Saturday, December 26, 2015

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The day after Christmas is Boxing Day. No, not that kind of boxing. What you see here are boxing lessons. On Boxing Day, feudal lords would give their servants boxes full of presents, perhaps to say thank you for working on Christmas. Americans are clueless about all of this, but in Britain the 26th day of December is a "bank holiday." [2015]

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