Have you ever heard about Haarlem, a city outside Amsterdam in the northwest of the Netherlands? I don’t mean Harlem Shake, of course, but Haarlem!

I’m in the mood to talk about a fairytale that tells about the little Dutch boy who plugs a dike with his finger. But things got more complicated because many people mistook the boy as Hans Brinker and the little hero wasn’t even a Dutch. Well, if we want to argue about this, I think we are 200 years late to ask an American who makes this story so alive. So for the sake of your sleep time, I advise you to just lean back, pull on your blanket, and listen to the story …