Arrrrrgh. Til now, the mosquito bites that began appearing with the hot weather have been annoying but not bad enough to keep me awake. Apparently the little bugger(s) was/were hungry tonight. I killed one, anyway.
And here lies the problem with having only a partial understanding of the local language: you miss detais. For instance, I have a stlck of waxy stuff that says it’s “Bij jeuk and pijn door insectensteken” – “for itching and pain of insect stings”. Note that it doesn’t say exactly what it *does* to the itching and pain – maybe that’s in the fine print. As far as I can tell, what it actually does is to intensify them. No idea why one would want such a thing, but then there are so many things I don’t understand.