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	All the normal soft and hard drinks are of course available in Holland, including the incomparable, world-famous Dutch beers. But you'll also want to try the Dutchman's favorite aperitif, a gin drink called genever—which all the world knows as "Dutch gin." It packs a wallop, it needs a little time to get accustomed to, but it grows upon you! And it's cheap; in a nightclub, therefore, you'd be well advised to keep ordering only genever (chased, perhaps, by beer). Genever, by the way, is available as either "jonge genever" (young genever) or "oude genever" (old genever); the young kind has less of the distinctive perfumed taste of the other, and is usually more palatable to tourists trying this drink for the first time. Lady tourists, for whom genever may be too strong an item, can try another unusual drink called "Advokaat"—a heavy, spiked, egg-nog-type substance which you eat with a spoon. Prior to World War II, I'm told, Advokaat was about the only drink a proper lady would be caught imbibing; during the war, however, the ladies switched to genever and drink it today in about the same quantity that U. S. ladies devour dry martinis. Home