The Netherlands March 2009

  • Our local in Amsterdam, but it wasn't very local.
  • Father reading his email in the Amsterdam apartment.
  • Sallie, Stephanie, Gerard, and Willem trudging through the streets of Amsterdam.
  • People live in these. You can also rent them.
  • Tulip Central.
  • The Dutch peasants were very wealthy I suppose.
  • I think these are called "Engadine".
  • Gerard and son in their element.
  • We use to live in a shoe in the middle of the road.
  • View from a windmill.
  • Our lovely flowers!
  • Wall-O-Coke.
  • Obligatory canal picture.
  • They even sell coffee there too!
  • Father walking the old haunts.
  • Everyone like the krokets.
  • Heaven in a pancake house.
  • As usual, Steph and Theo hold court in one corner.
  • Gerret and Theo amused themselves.
  • Bikes and dikes!
  • Theo makes a point.
  • We traversed many dikes in a bus.
  • A cheese factory tour. Much less than 3 hours.
  • It's real cheese.
  • We eta herring the traditional. S&G tried it but didn't care for it.
  • Map of the reclaimed land.
  • They had us do some walking too.
  • A private canal.
  • This time we bought Yur a drink.
  • Preparing for the big road trip.
  • Where father grew up.
  • Down the little trail again after many decades away.
  • Remember the days in the old school yard?
  • The old school yard.
  • Downtown Leiden.
  • Part of the city is a bridge, but it doesn't look like it.
  • The last garden in Holland many immigrants saw.
  • Must be time for more coffee.
  • Joke and Joos catch us up.
  • Joos is always happy when giving directions.
  • It's a cheese shop!
  • Next to the cheese we found flowers.
  • We stayed in very nice places on that road trip.
  • We live up there somewhere in 1973.
  • Reliving the walk to school.
  • Another old school yard.
  • The Batavia, a reconstructed 1602 merchant vessel. Cool.
  • Good looking front end.
  • Just for the ropes.
  • Dad took a turn at try to steer.
  • The captain got his own toilet.
  • The view from the Captain's cabin.
  • Friesien farm house "kop en neck".
  • Your average Dutch working horse.
  • Striding across the draw bridge and through the defenses.
  • Compulsory wind mill in an ancient town.
  • Not a dike, a defensive position.
  • This dude built a planetarium in his house. It still works.
  • Genever and nuts... priceless.
  • Would you buys a car from this man?
  • A lovely dinner with the van der Schaas.
  • You know the reference.
  • This side is the salt water.
  • Monument the the workers.
  • The middle of the huge dike.
  • Another lovely meal in a nice hotel.
  • How can you go wrong with this?
  • Or this?
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