“On my trips to the Netherlands I have always been struck by how tall the women are.”
Ditto. And not just tall, but powerfully built as well, with legs like pilings.
When you cross a Frenchman with a Hollander you get jabba the hut. They end up smart as hell but ugly as hell too in most cases. (Glad my mother chose a non French descendant as my farther, sorry her sister did not...)