Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Remembering the Netherlands

It was spring of 2007. Art decided a bike trip in the Netherlands would be a fun thing to do. This was the year before we would be moving to Hawaii and he wanted to get a lot of traveling over the Atlantic done.


Keukenhof Tulip Gardens was even more spectacular than we expected. It is absolutely breathtaking. I doubt I'll ever see so many different kinds of tulips in one place again.


We took hundreds of photos of the flowers that were blooming that spring.




We saw tulips of an array of colors...


shapes and sizes.


Everywhere we turned there were tulips and spring flowers bursting with color.


And yes, we saw a lot of canals and windmills. This is at Kinderdijk.


We also went to Belgium. This is Antwerp's Rubenshaus (House of Peter Paul Rubens).


Yes, I did survive that bike trip, but I've never been on a bike since. I'll never forget all the gorgeous sights and friendly (tall) people we met.

Netflix Recommendation: I recommended the foreign language film, Departures (Okuribito) a while ago. I just loved that movie. It received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film in 2009. I've just discovered that it's on Instant Streaming on Netflix or you can just rent the movie...Just in case you might be interested.