KEUKENHOF GARDENS
For a few weeks in spring, one of the most beautiful places on earth must be Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands.
The smell of acres of flowers, the bird song, the breath-taking beauty are amazing.
People come from all over the world to see this remarkable display.
It is a wonder we will never forget.
WE HOPED IT WAS TRUE AND IT IS!
There are still working windmills in the Netherlands.
All these windmills are working to keep the water level stable and make land available for farming.
Getting around on bikes is the way to enjoy it all.
Though the setting is idyllic, the life was full of labor. You can see in this "bedroom" a picture of the family who lived here. There were thirteen children in this windmill.
You get from one floor to the next level by these steps. How did toddlers manage?
Mom and Dad slept here with the baby who had a little nook above the bed.
Kitchen space was small, but well used.
The blades of the windmill are made of heavy canvas and wooden lattice work.
This is the way they caught fish.
Boots for work and skates for getting around in the winter.
Eight pair of wooden shoes.
Just right!
A family lives in this windmill today. The small windmills in the yard are for children's play.
Everything is carefully and beautifully crafted including this shed.
All that water pumped by the windmills through the canals to the rivers leads here to the North Sea.
As we have done some family history here, we have found we have ancestors from the Netherlands. Maybe that is why we loved this beautiful country so much.
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