As I love sailing, I made once again a short cruise from the Netherlands (Amsterdam) to Newcastle this Ascension Day weekend. In Newcastle I saw how Pizza Hut is advertising a very large pizza in Britain, called the New Yorker, and its size was given in large letters as "16 INCHES". Otherwise the usual mix of metric and Imperial is continuing. Some indications would do the BWMA proud, worthy of the Inch Perfect Award, like the 14'6'' vehicle height indication in buses near the drivers' seat, others would earn the Metrickery Award. A head room indication at Newcastle Central Station would certainly earn the wrath of the BWMA and the UKIP as it was in metric only and might one day draw the attention of ARM. On the way to Amsterdam Central Station from the ships terminal this morning on a bus I had a talk with an Englishman and I used metric throughout. Temperature given as 23 degrees Celsius and the distance to Amsterdam as 20 km. He did not have the slightest objection.
At present (16:00 h CET) the temperature is 30 degrees here. Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
