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Kinderdijk 1

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 10 May 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

Kinderdijk is, next to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Volendam and Alkmaar, one of the most important tourist attractions in the Netherlands. Ít is an area where the conditions of pure wind-driven water management of the meadows (polders) are preserved by 19 mills on one and a half square miles (although the mills are not used anymore for that purpose now we have engine-driven mills, they are less dependent from wind). My parents-in-law live nearby. This picture has been taken from the car (I wasn't driving) whilst on our way to my son's grandparents. We had "uploaded" two bikes on the car to make a bicycle ride along the Kinderdijk.

Those of you who don't like mills, please skip this blog for the next couple of days :). I've tried to make pictures "not for the tourist brochure" but with a personal accent.

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