Best of times: Dutch Dickens festival brings Christmas cheer
“Merry Christmas,” bellowed a top hat and cape-clad gentleman in full Victorian garb, to the amusement of passers-by at a festival celebrating the work of Charles Dickens. Yet the scene, which could have been plucked straight from the pages of one of the English literary titan’s much-beloved tomes, did not take place on the streets of London but in







