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Kinderdijk--windmills
We docked in the village of Kinderdijk this morning and toured the 19 windmills here. There use to be 10,000 windmills in The Netherlands but only 1,000 left. The reclaimed land, ponder, is produced by several windmills working together and pump the water into the surrounding river making the ponder below the river level and contained by dykes. The ponder is now pumped by a modern pumping station and the windmills ...
Day 3 from London to amsterdam
... tell you he had 2 suitcases by holding up 2 fingers (apparently a rude gesture in England) -push everyone else out of the way so you can be first to everything - wear your pants so low I can see a solid 6 inches of (hairy) crack -charge people $3 to make a toll free phone call. - wear bicycle shorts everywhere. Missing everyone a lot, but not enough to buy you presents. Jk - but a little bit not. Bxx Dan back - she's so right about the bicycle shorts. ...
Canoe trip in the Biesbosch
... but in this case there was quite a pleasant smell about the place, almost a sweet smell. The cows seemed to smell of healthiness, or at least the fresh scent of the great outdoors compensated for that of their dung. Though I must say even the barn had a nice odour to it…
Swallows are a family of birds very much in decline in North America. Bank swallows, for example, have decline in numbers by about 70% in the last 20 years. Here, however, swallows seem to be much ...
Oude Binnenweg - My Favourite Street In Europe
... the only tourists you got in those were us "tobacco tourists".
The "Brown Bar" is a sort of Dutch tradition - a simple little owner-run one-room bar with a mostly regular trade, usually comprising a cross-section of society. I was about to write "where suits mix with overalls" but despite being a nice phrase that isn't actually ...
Rainy Day in Rotterdam
Hello all,
After going with about an hour of sleep in 2 days I passed out hardcore last night. One of my couchsurfing friends, Arjanne, picked me up at Rotterdam Central. We almost didn't find eachother. Not having a phone sucks! Thank God she's a sweet, patient girl and didn't leave without me. She had a friend over, Ingrid, and we had a really nice dinner. Arjanne and I attemped bruchetta. ...