Some interesting things in the Netherlands
At first, i didn't know what to say. For me, my home country looks so boring and unpromising. After a few hours of thinking about the Netherlands…
I finally came up with a few things. In this post I’ll bore you
with information about our tulips, windmills and
open-minded people.
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| The Netherlands at its best(still not a match for countries as Iceland) |
The tulips
The Netherlands is well known for its flowers. You will find field with
thousands of tulips, roses, hyacinths and tons
of other flowers. Walking through these flower fields is like going through a
sea of colors. In some occasions there decorations made out of flowers for
special tulips festivals and ‘paintings’. Each year there is taking place a
tulips festival in “Noordoostpolder”. The
festival runs from late April to early May.(pictures can be found
below)
With millions of flowers sold every year, The Netherlands has
been called “The flower shop of the year” since the 16th century.
(There is also a dutch joint called "Dutch tulip joint")
The windmills
to start of i should tell about the windmills of Schiedam.
Here you can find the five largest windmill in the world! Those windmills, which
sometimes are over 40 meters tall, were used to produce jenever and to pump
water away. This was very important because The Netherlands is, on a lot of
places, below sea level. (See video below)
But they are better known for grinding grain. Which some of
them are still doing. But now a days most of these windmills are used as a
museum or sight.
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