Anniversary weekend

The original reason for us to come to Holland was to celebrate Willy and Chris' 40th wedding  anniversary. We travelled to Limburg for the weekend  and stayed in a guest house with the Kleingeld and van Rietschoten brothers and sisters.

 Everyone went their own way during the day - we spent some time in the nearby city of Maastricht, looking at the cathedral and other old architecture.

Each evening we ate at a restaurant which was run by the guesthouse people. The food was exceptionally good ,and we ate like kings! The world cup final was on ,so we all wore somehing orange to encourage the dutchies to win.As you know it was a fruitless exercise but we had fun anyway.

How sweet! This is the highest point in Holland - at the same altitude as our place in Silvan - almost made us feel at home.

Three land borders meet at this spot.

The country in Limburg is flowing hills -a bit like the Dandenongs only different trees.It's hard to imagine that the country has so many people when you see such wide open spaces - it's all in the strict town planning of course 

These are the hills of Holland - right on the border of Belgium and Germany. Reminded us a bit of Silvan