Visited Kinderdijk today – where we saw 19 preserved windmills built in the 17th & 18th centuries.It’s been on our bucket list.It did not disappoint.Great fun to ride the path and look at them.When people join together to solve a problem they can come up with some amazing ideas!Really fascinating to learn how the Dutch figured out how to get water out of their fields and back into the canals to prevent flooding. The U.S. really should be talking to the Netherlands now before we start having those same issues.This one built in 1740 – lovely!
We did talk to a man who’d lived there all his life and he wears wooden shoes all the time. You should have seen him climb the sail to demonstrate how the cloth works – all while wearing wooden shoes. Pretty amazing!
It was pretty special to arrive there via bicycle. We came down the canal from the opposite direction and saw men fishing. The canal was calm and the windmills began to reveal themselves. We biked along, alone for quite awhile, taking pictures as we went. When it started to get crowded we just turned around and biked the other direction. We did that a few times then toured the windmills etc. Great memory. xo
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Beautiful country. Enjoy🤗🤗🤗😎
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Where are your wooden shoes? 😉
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We did talk to a man who’d lived there all his life and he wears wooden shoes all the time. You should have seen him climb the sail to demonstrate how the cloth works – all while wearing wooden shoes. Pretty amazing!
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So many windmills!
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They are cool! Whenever I see windmills I think of the Hitchcock film Foreign Correspondent…… darn Nazis lol
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Nice pictures…reminds me of our trip a few years ago. We loved Kinderdijk!
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Curious, how did you guys get there? Were you on a cruise?
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Yes, this was our first stop out of Amsterdam on the Viking cruise.
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It was pretty special to arrive there via bicycle. We came down the canal from the opposite direction and saw men fishing. The canal was calm and the windmills began to reveal themselves. We biked along, alone for quite awhile, taking pictures as we went. When it started to get crowded we just turned around and biked the other direction. We did that a few times then toured the windmills etc. Great memory. xo
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I loved it too.
Really enjoyed touring the windmills the history was so interesting. We walked the path it was beautiful
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Can’t wait to talk to you about it when I’m home. Love you 😘
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These are lovely photos, very atmospheric. What a wonderful experience 🙂
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