Love at first sight it was absolutely not. “You really have to continue. It takes some getting used to and hurt. I think it took half a year. A bit on and off, trying occasionally. I have thought once: what am I doing? It hurts your legs, why are you going to walk on it? But yes, that’s why I went on with it. Now it really runs like a charm,” he claims.
There is a nice woman
He secretly likes that the clog tradition is continued. “That way I look a bit like my father and you belong, he is my example.” According to him, Niek’s father also enjoys it. This way it stays a bit in it. In the evening there are two pairs of clogs at the door.
Among peers, he is a loner with the shoe. “My friends are farmers, but walk on work shoes.” They often tease him with the click of the Klomp: “When I walk behind them, they always say:” Oh, there is a nice woman. Oh no, that’s you. “
“They laugh at me a bit, but I’m just going. I don’t care,” he says.
With clogs to festival
He himself prefers the wooden walkers to a sneaker for the outer work. “I am wearing them on Zwarte Cross. Or with normal, that is a farmer’s rock band. Those are all farmers. And so my shoes don’t get dirty. In the Achterhoek you see it anyway.”
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