Keukenhof (in the Bollenstreek)
In the past, the keukenhof area was a traditional garden for a castle
kitchen (the name literally means kitchen garden) where herbs and the
like were grown to season the food. Today it is basically a
flower show, where every year thousands of tulips and tourists come
together for a bit of mutual admiration.
The kids thought this was
great! This park was clearly made for the two of us!
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The two, looking very Dutch in
the woorden shoes.
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An orchid, from the orchid section of
the show. There was an indoor greenhouse with all different
flowers, including plenty of orchids - John
loved this section and wanted to take closeup photos of ALL the flowers
- we restrained him a little, but, with a digital camera,
let's just say we have a lot of closeups which didn't make it onto the
web site, for good reason...
The general flower show - acres of
outdoor wandering through the many dispalys of colorful flowers.
This would be a florist's dream,
but for us, we just enjoyed the grounds and all the different shapes
and colors and arrangements of the flora.
The hedge maze - not a huge one,
but quite fun nonetheless. Karen is up a on a bridge taking a
picture of us.
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Karen and Lydia on the funny
wooden platforms just below the water - from a distance, it really
looks like all these folks are walking on water!
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