Question for Dutch and Germans.?

Seeing how the Dutch hate Germans....I have no idea. I had to look this up as I have never head of this before....

http://dailycandor.com/10-things-you-probably-didn...

this is interesting on the DUTCH perspective....

Still looking WHY GERMANS do that!

Found this on a site...

What is it with those holes they dig to sit inside? Some of them are quite huge and require lots of effort. Moreover, the next day, when they return to the beach, they claim "their" hole if anyone dared occupy it!

Some time ago, there was a very funny Dutch commercial with a German digging the hole in the sand and a Dutch guy walks by carrying a WW2 type of bomb and says to the guy "Looking for something?".

another site says..

you call them holes, they call them trenches

and another site...

I don't remember exactly how this came up, but nevertheless and also very much to my surprise the thing that Germans are most associated with in Holland is ... are you ready ... DIGGING HOLES ON THE BEACH!

Yes, you read correctly. That is what we do apparently. And not only that. Once we have dug a hole, we proceed to sit in it.

When informed of this I obviously did think they were having me on....

Now please picture the following in your mind if you can:

It is a Sunday evening in Curacao and there is a well known beach bar with Happy Hour which is packed with hundreds of mostly somewhat inebriated people, most of them Dutch. In between the whole melee there is a pretty blond Dutch girl with a somewhat balding overweight German dwarf in tow asking people randomly what it is that Germans do. Without fail everyone that she asks without hesitation states Digging Holes.

Can you believe that? Even though I was there to witness it first hand, I still have trouble believing it.

Well, at least now I know and so do you.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy a shovel.

See you on the beach!

and here is a picture of one...scroll down... STRANGE INDEED! hahahaha

http://www.destructoid.com/once-again-germany-need...

http://www.destructoid.com/once-again-germany-need...

That's called a strandburg. Actually it must be built around a roofed wicker beach chair. It has been invented by tourists who spent more than just a weekend on the beach, because it costs a lot of time to build it properly. The sand which is dug out of the hole should be watered and formed to a solid ring around the hole, while the chair should remain on a hill in its centre. After the ring is finished, it must be decorated with lots of shells all around. Of course it might end with a fight on the beach if somebody dares to destroy the burg. Only the sea is allowed to do that.

Usually people don't have the time and the persistence to finish such a building anymore. Mostly they just look like craters today, indeed.

Well, obviously the strandburg was a German invention. When the Dutch got to see them, they had no other choice than to abstain from the fun as a principle, because it was something German.

Proper strandburgs have become rare, even on the sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea. If you should find a really nice one, it's most likely the property of a Dutch family. You better not mess with them.

"Deutschland" apart from the noticeable English translation, within the German tongue, way "land of the folks," as a consequence the phrase "Dutch" might be the cognate used to explain all West Germanic peoples (Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Low Countries) by means of the English, adding De Nederlanders (sic). The Dutch as a countrywide identification didn't kind till the early seventeenth century.

hahah, yea, that what the are known to do. Not sure why they do it, and it seems like only the German tourists do it. we (the Dutch) often joke about it, maybe they are looking for WWII bombs they left on the beaches;-)