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Chapter 203 Windmill Country

Local time in the Netherlands, at 3:30 am on August 19, the Chinese team took a flight to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on time. They also had to wait in the waiting hall for three and a half hours to transfer to Croatia.

The team has led the translator, so there is no need to worry about language barriers. Some players think that they have learned a few English conversations and have to overestimate themselves to try to communicate with others. Not only can they not understand other people’s strong accents, but they also say the words “hello, how     are you!” “hi,nice          meet     you” “i      from    china, and     u?”

The enthusiastic foreigner saw this group of yellow-skinned children and tried to communicate with them at first, but after saying a few words, he found that the other party could not understand his meaning and could not proceed in depth. After being bored, he could only walk away silently.

This stupid behavior also made several adults in the team laugh. The little guy is really not nervous. He dares to speak poor English when he goes abroad for the first time and greets everyone. It is really courageous.

Soon, everyone found a question. Before leaving, they asked the flight attendant and replied that it would take 10 hours to fly to Amsterdam, but after landing, they compared the time on the wall, and found that it was almost an hour.

After reminding each other, several players who wore watches found that their watches had all gone on strike. They all sighed: It is really unlucky to step on the horse in Europe, and they broke the watch as soon as they came up!

As soon as they heard their words, the two translators looked at each other and laughed loudly, and their waists bent. After laughing for a while, they finally stopped, but when they saw the players' confused expressions, they looked over with their eyes as if there were answers on their faces. They couldn't help laughing again. Suddenly, the two became monsters that were despised in the eyes of the players.

After finally stopping laughing, the translator became very entertained and wanted to tease the cute players. He asked seriously: "How did you know that the watch is broken?"

He Zhengming said angrily: "I checked the information and said that the Netherlands is in the East 1st District, and we are in the East 8th District, and they are 7 hours behind us. We set off at 11:30 last night and it took 10 hours to fly here. Now it should be 9:30 am on the 19th in Beijing time."

He also raised his hand to express the time inside, and then continued to say: "Subtract 7 hours, then the current time should be 2:30 in the morning in the local area, how can it be displayed at 3:30?"

When I saw He Zhengming, I knew that he was a studious child. He did some homework in advance. He made some statements like he was typing an abacus. Many players did not have this concept, and most of them did not understand what he was talking about.

The translator looked at him and smiled and said, "Under normal circumstances, this is indeed the case, but you have missed a knowledge point, that is, Europe is now implementing daylight saving time. The so-called daylight saving time will also be one hour faster than normal time, so now their time is only 6 minutes later than our Beijing time."

It was really learned everywhere, and the players learned about time zones and responded with a sudden realization.

"Hey, then do you still need to adjust the table when I am going to Zagreb next?" a player asked.

"No, Zagreb and Amsterdam are in the same time zone and also use daylight saving time. You can adjust the table now and don't need to move anymore. You can take care of returning home until the end of the game." The translator replied lightly.

Since it was just a transit, the players could only stay in the waiting hall and could not go outside. In this way, they missed the opportunity to meet the largest city and financial center in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam is the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a very developed tourism industry and is known as "Northern Venice". The densely packed waterways in the city and more than a thousand bridges are widely distributed. In a trance, it also brings a bit of the beauty of the Jiangnan water town.

Amsterdam is famous not only in the world, including windmills, tulips, cheese, but also in the "Dream Factory" Ajax Club, which every football boy has been fascinated by for a long time, as well as the beautiful neon night view. A warm breeze makes tourists drunk. What night is it that night, I can't bear to go back.

The climate in Amsterdam is very pleasant. Even in the summer season of August, the highest temperature is only in the early 20 degrees, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large.

After sitting in the waiting hall for a while, the players also felt the cool feeling of autumn. The coaches also reminded everyone to take out their jackets from their suitcases to keep the cold and prevent colds.

There is still some time to board the plane, and there is no breakfast time. Although the players are not sleepy at all and are still very excited, the coaches are also starting to remind everyone that the jet lag will start to start.

For the players, jet lag is a completely new concept, and everyone became even more excited when they heard it, and they asked around the two translators.

"What is jet lag?" "Why do we need jet lag?" "How to make jet lag?" Adults find it common to think that the translation is busy.

Although the player who went abroad for the first time was excited on the plane, he could not resist the sleepiness caused by sleepiness. He also fell asleep in a daze for a while in the second half of the night. When he got off the plane, although it was midnight in the local area, compared with the usual biological clock, it was in the excitement period in the morning, and it was normal for the players to be slightly excited.

But in order to quickly improve the jet lag and synchronize the pace of life in Europe, players must follow the local steps.

The specific method is to "don't sleep until you go to bed, and you will not sleep when you go to bed." After a day of forced correction, you will be able to keep up with the local biological clock.

So although the players are not sleepy, the sofa in the waiting room is not as comfortable as the bed, but being able to stretch your legs and lie flat is worse than nothing.

At six o'clock in the morning, the coach woke up the players, and then prepared for security check and boarding.

The players suddenly missed the wide variety of breakfasts in their hometown, including soy milk and fried dough sticks, buns, soup noodles, noodles, and white rice porridge. They were all steaming, which was what breakfast should look like.

For example, the Netherlands provides only cold bread with butter, only milk and hot coffee. This kind of breakfast without fireworks is soulless. It is not so delicious that it opens the source of taste buds of the day, but rather a snack that fills the belly. Without the usual fulfilling feeling, you will naturally not feel full.

After making do with it, they started to check in and board the plane. They looked back at Schiphol Airport, which showed its true appearance in the morning light, and the players entered the cabin cursed.

The first experience was just Err. It was indeed "It is better to meet than to be famous than to meet, and it is better to not meet than to meet". I guess if I want to change my impression of the Netherlands in the minds of these little guys, I may only be able to realize it when they grow up and come again.
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