Friday, July 16, 2010

Netherlands 2

We visited oom Ab and tante Ina. They recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and were so pleased to see us! They are keeping quite well for their age -oom Ab is on medication to control a spinal/muscle condition which affects him badly at times .
They are determined to stay in their own house and are managing well with some help. We enjoyed our visit. This is Leiden on a market day. Bikes everywhere and no helmets except for racing bikes.


There is a canal system in Leiden that has a less commercial round tour than say in Amsterbam. We joined Fons and Christine on one of these -took lots of photos of course.


Leiden is the birthplace of Rembrant -according to our guide this windmill and bridge feature in some of his paintings. It's very pretty anyway







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