Given that life is rather dull these days, let me take you on another "Finding Old Photos" journey, this time to the Netherlands. Alas, no dazzling fall colors, as in the last post. We visited in the spring. But color? Oh yes -- there was color!
Our trip to the Netherlands in 2018 was a first for both me and Rick and it was a memorable time in a lovely country. We were only there for about four days but crammed a good deal into that time -- a concert at Concertgebouw; a stop at the wonderful Rijksmuseum where we were lucky enough to see "The Night Watch" before it went out for restoration; Anne Frank's house; a visit to the UNESCO heritage sight Kinderdijk (on a gloomy day, alas); Delft; several small towns, and we were lucky to be there in Amsterdam during "Queen's Day."
It seemed like a good visit to share with you!
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| We stayed with friends outside Amsterdam. This was the view from their garden. |
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| Amsterdam (and all of Holland, I think!) have wonderful canals. This is one of them. |
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| You can catch a concert at Concertgebouw almost any time of day. We were lucky to meet a couple who gave us their absent friends' tickets and took us to the donor room prior to the concert! |
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| Queen's Day honors the ruler, then a Queen. People, buildings, everything is decked out in orange! |
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Queen's Day there were loads of street games and we liked this "slot
machine" with people inside holding up apples, bananas and fruit signs
when you pulled the lever! |
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| Queen's Day included a massive boat parade. This one was so filled with revelers I'm surprised it didn't sink! |
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| I was captivated by the shutters on this Amsterdam building. |
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| A visit to Delft turned out to be a fascinating day. I loved this interesting door. |
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| I also loved the Delft pottery shops with their blue and white pieces. Yes, I did damage. |
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| Another from that Delft pottery store. Dangerous place. |
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| Kinderdijk is a UNESCO Heritage Site. The day we went was gloomy but it was fascinating. |
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| And no, I've never seen more windmills in my life. |
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| I was very tempted to alter the sky to blue! |
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| We visited the small towns of Edam and Volendam. These shoes in Edam made me smile! |
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| This photo captured my heart. The cats reminded me of Gypsy. |
I leave you with one of my favorite things about the Netherlands! When we ventured into a grocery in Amsterdam, I'd never seen such a large selection of cheese in my life and I don't think I have since. The one below was a small shop in Edam.
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| Wheels of Edam and Gouda cheese. | |
And yes! We indulged! Thanks for coming along on this Netherlands edition of Finding Old Photos. Wonderful what I'll find next?
(If you would like to see older posts from the Netherlands trip you can find them at these links: Queen's Day / Rijksmuseum / Vermeer Center in Delft / Delft / Kinderdijk / Edam / Volendam
14 comments:
Dear Jeanie, if this is a second comment I apologize. I also love ❤️ the photo with the cats 🐈
What a lovely place. Beautiful photos and I think the Anne Frank House is near that canal?
Thank you 😊 so much for sharing, dear friend.
I would love to travel to the Netherlands! Great post!
Happy memories of a visit to a lovely - and enlightened - country.
My favorite photos are the gloomy day windmills: wonderful. I smiled to see the wooden shoes, too. I grew up in a town very near Pella, Iowa, which is a Dutch community. They also have windmills, tulips, terrific Dutch bakeries, and a Tulip Time, with a parade. My high school band always marched in the parade, and believe me: it was a challenge to survive that experience. We marched while wearing wooden shoes!
Your first passage made me breathless already!
Oh, but so nice with the free tickets!
LOL, I remember a game of American Football here in Braunschweig, Germany. Eurobowl, Netherlands.
For the first time: Security!!!
Why???
In soccer these two are "enemies", hooligans go at each other, but, hey, this is American Football!
In the halftime break we all mixed, mingled and had fun!
After only those security guys who enjoyed the game stayed. To Orange! Braunschweig won and still we ALL had fun!
Also I love that color :-)
Wow on the boat parade! And the architecture.
Now I wonder. My parents got such blue-whilte dishes for their wedding - only put out on very special occasions. We have no relation... oh, wait! Platt! East Frisia has that, too!
Oh and cheese, yum!
Fun post! :-)
I was there once. Lay in the grass by the ocean, reading a book. A seagull shit on my back. Brown.
And don´t you laugh! (OK, I did myself as everybody was laughing! It was on my skin and there were showers.)
You fit a great deal into those few days! What a great trip!
You remind me that I used to have a number of students with Dutch names in Sarnia. Soil there is very boggy, and the Dutch seemed to know what to do with it. At least, I think that is part of the reason.
A best friend was Dutch groing up..lives in the Netherlands.. she visited a few yrs ago.Itwas lovely.I developed a great fondness for speculaas.gouda and salty balcl licorice as a young girl because of her family:) Dad was a Captain KLM mom a flight attendant.Fab family.
Mooi.
That means beautiful in Dutch! 😁
I was teasing Steve about his so American way of cramming experiences and sights in you no time at all. And here you come saying hold my wooden shoes!
...Jeanie, thanks for this lovely tour. I've only been to the airport on my way to Germany!
I've never (yet) made it to the Netherlands, but it's on my list. I really enjoyed these photos. It looks amazing. And you did many things I would want to do too, so that makes looking at these photos even more fun. Not that I want your life to be dull lately, but thanks for finding the time to share these. Happy weekend to you also. hugs-Erika
Love the windmill pictures, they are so different than the ones we have here.
The 1st Canal pictures is beautiful. Makes me wanna paint. It looks like a pretty country. I enjoy the pictures. Thanks for sharing your memories.
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