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...But there's more! If you were disappointed, like I was, to find Disneyland just one big advertisement for Mickey Mouse products, you've got to see the Dutch equivalent, the Efteling. It's got all the rides, and all the fantasy, but the fairytales are straight from the books -- no bulbous goofy Disney mainstream adaptations. Here are the boys (Steijn and Tuur again), getting silly in front of a mermaid with real breasts.
And here's another fable that's realized in graphic form at the Efetling: the donkey that shits gold pieces. You (in America) probably never even heard of it -- but in the Efetling, the donkey stands proudly on a pedestal, and, when you put a Guilder in (about 45 cents and declining), a little plastic gold piece comes shooting out of his ass!
And there's the woods with all the little fairy story scenarios (and real trees in between)...Here you see Anneke waving to us from the top of a giant psychedelic mushroom (elves row boats below).
I'm telling you, it's all great: the rides, the spook houses...It was the highpoint of my second childhood.
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