While half the Netherlands to spend time with family to spend, and at least three of the passageways within the slide, there will always be people who, during Christmas, have to work with. They reach, however, due to the weather and the wind to their place of work. NU.nl spoke to three of them.

“The alarm clock goes off the next day, at 3.45 p.m.” < / p> the hoofdconducteur to the netherlands, and this year at christmas. “It’s his past services: the first from 8: 00 to 16: 30, and the second from 7: 00 to 13: 00 hrs. We have a feestdagenregeling, so this year, I have worked with Easter in two days. Next year, I shall be free.”

Because of this early start, it has IJsendorn in the evening, but a short time to visit family. “And it’s the day after Christmas and I have to get up early: the alarm clock at 3.45 am.” Really, he said not. “I am beginning, there is less and less effort to get it. On christmas Eve I go to church, that is, for me, it really Works.”

in Addition, the atmosphere of his work is the best christmas-style, to name a few. “I try to be a nice touch to it. I have a hat with me, which I design, and I wish to be, of course, everyone is on fine days. For Christmas, arrange for the work and also food for others, so I will warmly decorated room with a rich breakfast, like a hotel would. A breakfast of juice, with a kerststol, and pastries.”

also, is it just in a day’s work, ” says IJsendorn. “It was a day like any other, with the train from utrecht to Amsterdam just to ride. But you can train now to ensure that everyone in the family can come out, give it a little something extra. You’re still in the back of your mind.”

“Everybody has been upbeat, fun, dressed up, and is looking forward to it’
“over The past eight years, I’ve always worked on Christmas day. Well, I think, six years ago, and one of the days off.” Joyce Rietman is a host at the Herberg de Klomp in Vilsteren, a restaurant at the top of the mid-market segment,” where the emphasis on organic and local products on the table. “I’m people, and I am particularly concerned with the wine-food combinations. I work from 15: 00 to approximately 0: 00 hours.”

A sentence is almost always to work out if the majority of people will find they are anything but. “I am myself very enthusiastic about it, but now even more so. What with Christmas, work has been really great fun. Everyone’s happy, cute, dressed, and is looking forward to it. We have been in the restaurant for dinner and fine wines, there are mostly regulars, and we have to do in advance of a dinner on work. For the occasion, and the three-course meal.”

“We have a big christmas tree, that is, until the end of January will be shown.”

Joyce Rietman

With her best friend, and a family of plant Rietman in addition, a kerstontbijt. “I’m a real kerstfan, as did my friend. We have a huge christmas tree that we have on the 2nd of december up and until mid-January, probably.”

During the holiday season, employees of the restaurant to make their own clothes, to choose from. Rietman is, therefore, also to do it in style. They will add it as a feestdagenliefhebber have a little extra spice to it this year, and for all the guests to have a holiday card to write. “It was my own suggestion. It’s been there for forty, so I’m a bit busy here.”

” The rest of my family has been in Austria for the skiing,’

As for the others, their family for Christmas, yet to be seen, it is the family of the Start Dros just having fun skiing in Austria. Dros stays at home and works for both christmas and mental health nurse in the Netherlands. She has mixed feelings about the work during the Year.

“on the one Hand, it is annoying, but on the other hand, again be not,” says Dros. The annoying side of it is, of course, is that the mental health nurse will not be in addition to all the rest of her family on the slopes. “But it’s also a very, very special to be in such an intense section of people some relief,” says Dros.

as for The food, which plays an important role in the celebration of christmas in the hospital. During the christmas season of food and the people who are working together with the patient on a long table. There was also a special christmas celebration was organized for patients and their loved ones. A few nurses are prepared for the company, and there was a separate room especially for the occasion, will be transformed into a kind of a restaurant. “We have a lot of positive comments about receiving”, says Dros.

The mental health nurse is up for the missed days skied, still in October. “The kids are still at school, so we’re going to do a lot of things to do. I live in Hoenderloo, so we have to go to The Hoge Veluwe national park yet, and we’re going to go to Burgers’ Zoo in arnhem, so we’re going to have all sorts of fun things to do.”