Yes, that Gouda. Those are plastic cheeses, and that's us, standing on a giant medieval cheese scale. In addition to at one time being the wealthiest city in the Netherlands, Gouda is also known for clay pipes and candles.
The GPS gave us a back roads route from Gouda to the Kinderdijk. It included this surprise ferry. 40 percent of the country is below sea level after all.
Kinderdijk, Unesco world heritage site. Debates on where the name comes from, child labor, small dike, man with many children as one of the head millers... you pick.
Originally 20 dikes from the mid 1600's all working to elevate water over 1 meter to maintain farmland from being claimed by the sea. The windmill's energy is used to turn and Archimedes screw that moves the water. The tops of these windmill's can be rotated to best position the sails. Families used to live in these things.
There was no wind on our visit, so I had to push.
Too many days in Holland for you all to have to wait for the required wooden clogs photo
Look, National Geographic thinks my visit is cover-worthy!
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