Some friends of ours innocently mentioned a couple of weeks ago that they were headed to Holland to see the tulips. Imagine their shock when they, out of politeness, asked us if we wanted to go too and we said “Yes!”. I took Friday off so we packed the clan into the Family Truckster at around 6:30 and hit the autobahn. We cruised most of the way at a cool 100 mph, arriving in Leiden in less than 4 1/2 hours.
We met our friends at Keukenhof, a park in the middle of tulip country. We wondered around there a good part of the day and then headed to dinner at the beach.
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The park is really beautiful, but the highlight was the vast tulip fields we passed on the way there. I keep finding reasons to love the Netherlands. Keukenhof has its own functional windmill. The view from up there is spectacular.
Prepare yourself for multiple post on this incredible trip. Here’s a bit of video from up on the windmill.
3 comments:
JEALOUS!!
We went over Easter - too early to see anything other than yellow and purple in the fields!
I second CN- we were there the week after Easter, again too early for anything but crocii. We love staying in Leiden too- it's so easy. We are planning on going back in two weeks: I hope that we aren't too late this time, based on all the great colors you are seeing.
We were incredibly lucky. Trick is to pick friends who know what they're doing. We caught incredible weather over the weekend. Hope you guys have better luck next time!
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