Holland/Scotland Trip, December 2012 - Part 2

Things that caught my eye...

                                                             A strange-looking bird

Some sites around Delft, Amsterdam and the Hague.

 

 

Notice those white spots splattered all over the ground in this picture below?  Make a mental note of it...want to try and guess what they are?

The Het Loo Palace, a historical monument (love the red of the windows)

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Picture 3 -The gardens

A signboard we found interesting, outside the Het Loo Palace -  we decided to interprete it as "hold hands when you get to this spot"...




So hold hands we did :)

(It actually means 'meeting place' - like if you get lost somewhere in the palace, come back to this point - not sure if this is true but they can tell us anything, right?  Haha!)

Some of the things you can see inside....would love this little caravan as a craft workroom!

Smaller vintage carriages in all shapes and sizes..when I asked what animal drew these since they were so small, a visitor said goats.  Really?  They can tell us dwarfs and we'd still not know better, would we?

There wasn't any snow when we were there.  This was an outdoor, artificial ice-skating rink.  We found it interesting that chairs were used for the younger kids to sit on.

Night scenes

 

 

A lovely Christmas tree - "oooo....maybe I could make one of these" (see post on my DIY tree)

The famous story of the boy at the dyke - "oh no, have I ever told my three homeschooled kids this story when they were young?"

Large windows at apartments and houses and no grill! -  "would never work in non-safe Kuala Lumpur".

"For Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear?"

This van made me happy - "need to remember to eat vegetables while we're here."  Wish I could paint our car something like this.

 See those white spots again, splattered all over the ground?

 For some reason, I found these four terribly cute!


This lady in costume, in a cheese shop - "she looks like that Dutch Lady picture on our milk tins back in the day".  She was cute, when we took photos with her, she told us to "SAY CHEEEEEEEEESE!"  Hahahaha!

Tulips (the flowers Holland is famous for) were not in season, but surprisingly flowers were about the same price as in Malaysia.
 



Wow,some kids will so love these.  Actually, I can think of some adults, too.



How we moved around.

Trains

Trams

On foot (SEE those white spots on the ground??)

Bicycle!  We rented these for one day to cycle around, like regular Dutch people!

Tourists and amateur riders get the red-coloured bikes, hahaa, so people could get out of our way I guess!
(see? see those white spots?  everywhere!)

Know what those white spots are?
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get ready for this..
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hold your heart..
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Dried-up, flattened chewing gum.

p/s  Thanks Matthias, for some of these photos!