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Photo: Malcolm Mason private collection
Malcom Mason, 82, used to visit Amsterdam on leave from the RAF in the 1960s. Now living in Nunspeet, he retired this year as chairman of the Amsterdam branch of the Royal Air Force Association after 40 years involvement with the club. He learned Dutch from Linguaphone records, has adopted the scruffy Dutch way of dressing and says he would be gobsmacked if he was told he had to go back to Britain.
How did you end up in the Netherlands?
I joined the Royal Air Force as a young lad of 16 and when I had completed my apprenticeship training I was posted to Germany. We used to come to Amsterdam on weekend leave and that is where I met my wife. We eventually became very romantic.