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Keukenhof Gardens, Holland
After the hustle and bustle of packing and moving, we decided to take a day-trip up to Holland to visit the Keukenhof gardens during the May Day & Ascension holidays. We made pretty good time driving up there until we got within about 10 km of the gardens where we got snared in a ridiculous traffic jam. After an hour of inching along, we discovered the cause: the road crossed a large canal and road traffic kept stopping when a drawbridge was raised to let boats pass on their way to the coast for the holiday. Seriously.
As a result of this unexpected delay, we did not have time to both tour the gardens and bicycle through the tulip fields as we had intended. We decided to save cycling for a future trip, and stuck to the gardens. Needless to say, it was gorgeous, and featured an entire pavilion devoted to orchids, a beautiful, historic beech tree allée, plus numerous formal and informal plantings, a biergarten, even a calliope. Holland, springtime, flowers...enough said.
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The flowers are gorgeous. Really puts my one-tulip-that-the-rabbits-failed-to-eat to-shame.
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Holland is beautiful. I was there when I was little and got real wooden shoes that I wore for a year and then held on to for years. I don't know where they are now, but that is my memory of Holland. I also remember a children's minature village. It might have been in Amsterdam, but I'm not sure. All the houses were about a foot high. Glad to see you are taking some time to be tourists!
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