johan

Your wish has been granted, there are plenty of countries other than Bhutan with relatively few tourists. Pakistan, Laos, Cambodia I think are all way less popular with tourists than Vietnam and Thailand, for example. Loads of countries in Africa are barely visited by tourists too. No need to pay a daily fee in those places.

With that attitude it sounds like they wouldn't even want you to visit. A huge part of the appeal is that Bhutan remains very unique, with a distinct culture and few tourists.

They don't want people to come who are looking to climb a famous mountain, go partying, chill on the beach, and other things people go to nearby countries for.

I'm from the Netherlands and certain parts of Amsterdam are full of tourists almost all the time, with very few normal people living there. Venice is an even more extreme example, or some party islands in Asia or the Mediterranean.

Bhutan goes in the opposite direction. By making it so expensive to visit they filter out a whole bunch of people who could/would ruin what they want to preserve.

I work the (for here) standard 36 hours per week, but I do 4 x 9 hours so I have a day off every week. You're free to create your own schedule (in my department anyway), so others work 8 hours for 4 days and 4 hours one day, or 8 per day and a day off every two weeks, or even 40 hours and they save up a day every two weeks to use at a later stage. A friend of mine does this and he takes a week off every two months and then goes on a longer holiday in the spring and autumn or something.

In terms of paid time off, I think I get about 25 days a year (plus some public holidays), but I also get a 16% "bonus" every month that I can spend on a variety of things. You can choose to receive it as extra salary, but you can also spend it on certain things like union dues, gym membership, a bicycle, etc with the benefit that you don't pay VAT (like sales tax I think) over those things.

But I often use it to "buy" leave. I think if I would always spend the full amount on leave I'd have about 10 weeks of vacation per year. You could definitely argue it's not really paid time off since I could work and earn more money. But you pay a relatively high amount of income tax over it and I consider it an extra anyway. So now I sometimes receive a bit more, but most of the time I get my normal salary, also when I'm on leave. I have a four day week and I can take two long vacations plus one or two short ones every year and I'm happy with that.

And as long as I perform normally I get a raise every year until I reach the highest step on the "ladder" for my position. And everyone's salary is raised slightly every year as well (though almost always, and especially now, less than inflation).

Just tested, no problems. What version are you using? Did you upgrade recently?

Ik had eigenlijk verwacht dat de SGP zou uitsterven. Welke jonge mensen stemmen nog op ze? Maar ze houden stug twee (?) zetels.

Wat gaaf zeg. Allemaal mensen, waaronder veel jongeren, die nu problemen hebben met gokken. Maar nu is een klein groepje rijke mensen nog rijker geworden! Dus was het toch wel waard.

Haha ok so fifa are also unsure :D Not a big deal now because Spain won anyway, but that could have been very consequential

Good stuff, finally a solid defender. I'm curious how they convinced him to come to ajax rather than go to england or Italy.

Must it be on the line or just over the line?

Gaat nog niet heel soepel bij Feyenoord. Als Ajax fan ben ik hier wel blij mee natuurlijk. Iemand de hele wedstrijd gezien? Ik alleen het laatste kwartier. Feyenoord vol in de aanval maar wat een kansen voor Sparta zeg. Zonde dat Clement het niet af kan maken.

There were rumours of him going to Ajax. Glad he didn't. Too expensive anyway, but this is also a person who went to Russia to visit a guy who stabbed his cousin and then fled the country (Quincy Promes).

IJshockey is daar populairder dan voetbal geloof ik. Weinig kans op een stunt ook, niet heel spannend.