Don’t build on the sand

May 7, 2013 | 3 comments

Take a good look at this tower.  See anything unusual?   It’s leaning!  Yep, two meters off plumb. When construction on this tower in Delft began in the 1300’s, the builders moved a canal away from the Old Church to

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Love those clogs!

May 7, 2013 | 5 comments

I never understood clogs, until this trip to The Netherlands. It’s marshy and wet in The Netherlands, even more so in centuries past than today. The Dutch came up with the idea of wooden shoes to keep their feet dry

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Are your sails out?

May 6, 2013 | 2 comments

Did you know that in the 1500’s and 1600’s windmills made The Netherlands one of the wealthiest countries in the world? Yep, that’s what we were told. The Dutch ingeniously harnessed the wind to create factories in the form of windmills. 

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The Bloom Festival

May 3, 2013 | 4 comments

Every spring, there is a Bloom Festival parade viewed by hundreds of thousands of flower oglers lining the streets from one little town to the next up and down the coastal area of Holland.  We didn’t view the parade, but

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