After all, the parcel boat has really sunk now, will Sinterklaas news not end well for the first time? | show

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With only two more nights of sleep until Sinterklaas hopes to set foot in Hellevoetsluis, the panic has completely struck. The steamer was so leaky that it sank, and all the Piets are still in Spain. Is this the first year that Sinterklaas will not arrive in the Netherlands on time?

Dieuwertje Blok’s sweater, with the word ‘chaos’ in large letters on it, immediately suggested that not much would go well tonight. Yet the Smeerpoets Piet seems to be at the beginning of the Sinterklaas news to have found the solution for the leaking parcel boat: the water comes from below, so all screws in the bottom of the boat have to be tightened considerably. Sounds very simple, but Sinterklaas has really lost hope. ,,I don’t think this boat will ever arrive in the Netherlands again,” he says sadly. If it subsequently turns out that the water does not come from below, but from above and the steamer can sink at any moment, panic is also unavoidable among the helpers.

The mayor of Hellevoetsluis still has every confidence in Sinterklaas and encourages Rachel to continue looking for the most beautiful spot in town. This is to the surprise of Dieuwertje Blok in the studio, because she too does not see it coming. When the presenter then asks what the Piets are planning, it all seems to get worse. They say without any worries that they will put all the packages back on the quay. They never left by steamboat and are still ashore in Spain. How are they ever going to reach the Netherlands within two days?

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The recipe for the Sinterklaas news is the same every year: whatever happens, it always works out. But many viewers will have their reservations about that after tonight. Because, when Dieuwertje Blok thanks everyone for watching at the end of the broadcast and we see the parcel boat sinking to the bottom in the background, you certainly ask yourself: will it be all right this time?

The steamer sinks to the bottom of the sea. © NTR

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