A short thirty minute drive to spend the day in Zaanse Schans. An open air museum to walk around. If you like clogs, cheese and windmills this is the place for you.
We bought some Rosemary & Thyme cheese which is very nice (and some garilc honey).
The green building is a replica of the first Alfred Heijn who are now the main chain of supermarkes in The Netherlands.
We drove North to get to apartment number two in Abcoude, The Netherlands. A somewhat slow journey. The apartment is nice with a canal/river outside of the back door. A man was bravely travelling in a small row boat against the flow to get between the banks. Someone was attaching material to a windmill type machine across on the other wise of the river. It seemed to be used to pull something up from the river when the sails turned.
We took a short drive to Damme where we’d been in 2017.
A lot of the older glass seemed quite green. Apparently; “Traditional window glass from the medieval and early modern periods was made from sand that naturally contained small amounts of iron oxide. This impurity gives the glass a greenish tint, especially when the glass is thick or viewed in low light.”
We packed the car so we have a quicker start in the morning as we head towards our second place to stay.
We’ve been in and out and in and out of the hotel car park.
A twenty minute drive into Brugges with the first important port of call - belgian waffles.
Then to the chocolate museum to learn about… chocolate. It’s brown and comes in squares. See the museum for futher details.
A long lay in, then a walk n the forest we can see from the window. Then into town to get food for fridge.
An evening walk in the grounds of the hotel.
Up at 4am or so. In the car by 5am. On the Eurotunnel train by 820am.
An hour change, so by 11am we were at the Art Museum in Dunqueque with it’s poppy exhibition outside, and colour art (and six foot projected owl.) Then a walk along the beach with it’s various memorials to WWII.
It was only about an hour to the first hotel so we stopped off the get milk, break and a few things. The loaves were unsliced and you threw them into a machine and it sliced it for you.
There are only five apartments in the hotel so it’ll probably be nice and quiet.
It’s a nice room but if there’s a fire I think we need to wait until someone brings a ladder.
