Yesterday was spent exploring Holland and the beautiful windmills there. We got tons of pictures. We first stopped in a historical fortress town. Water surrounds it and many places to protect the city were contructed. We saw the old castle which was really only walls now and a tower. Unfortunately, the local hoolagins do not respect history and there was tons of grafitti all over the stones. A man was there cleaning it up while we looked around.
Then we went to Kinderdijk (pronounced kinder dyke). This is where you can walk out among the many windmills. Many have been converted into homes and there was a museum in one as well. Alex was able to show us around. It wasn’t too late of a night which was nice.
Interesting tidbit: so we are driving a lot and listening to a Dutch radio station. They keep saying this word and Traci was DYING to know what it means. We ask Alex in the first town we stopped at, ‘what does punktennel mean’. He wasn’t sure. So as we are driving to Kinderdijk Chris figures it out…. it is not ‘punktennel’ but rather ‘punkt, n, l’… punkt means period… they were saying a website!!! .nl for the Netherlands!!! Like our ‘dot com’. Interesting how language works, eh?