The Netherlands through my camera by dutchess

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· @dutchess · (edited)
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The Netherlands through my camera
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Most of the world thinks we walk in wooden shoes all day or ride bicycles, some of this is true and some of it is not.

The wooden shoes are to us almost as old fashioned as they are to you - though i used to walk on them occasionally when i was a kid. 
Nowadays you can  buy them mostly on flee markets.

![20170918_184222.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQme94uYQXenHNTYmZviac9yJQ94rTDSbKe1qRZxJDmsj3a/20170918_184222.jpg)

We do like to bike, however.
We even adapt our traffic signs to that πŸ˜‚

And! We bike in summer AND in winter:

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We do not only export flowers and flowerbulbs all over the world, we like to buy them ourselves too. Regular Dutch household has a bouquet of flowers all through the week.

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The Netherlands have beautiful nature, it differs if you are in the south, the north or the east.
There are many natural parcs where the diversity in trees make a great sight in the fall

![20170918_184651.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXJdrrzHvs2N5BzN7gy2YxGSqBSsBG17sLHTihV3Fp4Fo/20170918_184651.jpg)

This spring i took a trip to the south.

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The south of the Netherlands has beautiful hilly landscapes with lots of cornfields.

In the east the nature gets really different.

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I live in Gelderland, where the hay fields determine the landscape. 
It was untill here that the ice came in the former last ice age. It shoovled up the land. In the last ice age the ice did not come this far but it kept the upper layers frozen for a long time, creating this tundra-like landscape.

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Here, between Gelderland and Utrecht, on ' the Hoge Veluwe ' - a national parc - there is a world famous museum were some of the most beautiful van Gogh paintings are exposed.

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Our fields are dominated by black and white cows.
The dutch cow is a friendly and curious animal.

![20170918_185857.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdVrw8X9NtXbzmx4B34mbVqqTAz2Zdb7jC2jARuh9eJLX/20170918_185857.jpg)

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Over to the west! 

![20170918_183834.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUFdC56BQ8vhpdYjFZd4CfjdjdtR4xBJLrB8Tp1i7ePD8/20170918_183834.jpg)

We are lucky! There is a seaside too! 
All the way from the north with its islands untill the south-west, the islands of Zeeland.

This is the famous pier of Scheveningen, where the Kurhause hotel was build too.

![20170918_183937.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRtGgpjeunuy4vSiegMAei1An2V4y3F4FGXJrsLe4v4hg/20170918_183937.jpg)

So what more to tell.....cheese.....they made the Dutchies out of cheese 

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But we are really sweettooths too - there is a very dutch festival, two weeks before christmas. Its called Sinterklaas en we eat  all kinds of ginger-bread like pastry.... very sweet! 

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And once a year, on the birthday of our king Alexander we get REALLY crazy. We dress up in a lot of orange colors and we go out to party in the streets. There is music everywhere, mostly from live bands.

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And when we play an international football game we do exactly the same! We get totally crazy for such soccer games.

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Well i hoped you liked my Dutch post - most of the pics i posted before but never all together.

(All pics are my own)  

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@pjcswart ·
Thanks for this post. Looks like a fun place to live! and beautiful!
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@dutchess · (edited)
My pleasure PJ 😎
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@pjcswart ·
Thanks I have a number of names actually.
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@melinda010100 ·
Some friends of mine.took their bikes over and have been touring your country by bike and I have been quite  envious. It seems to me that purchasing cut flowers is much less expensive for you  than it is here in the States... I even bought flowers for my guestroom when I was visiting Europe. Here they feel more like a luxury. LOVE all your pictures.
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@dutchess ·
Hi Mel! Yes its much cheaper here. Whenever i buy them abroad i have half a heart attack when i have to pay!
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@melinda010100 ·
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I would love to be able to buy fresh flowers every week to enjoy!
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@mariannewest ·
Thank you so much for the tour!! Love all your photos and the info you gave along with it. Thank you so much!! It felt I was on a journey with you! And I would love to have some of those wooden shoes!!!
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@dutchess ·
Marianne its a thing to walk on those. I remember i wanted to wear them as a kid when it snowed; snow piles up uderneath them, so in walking to school i got taller LOL.
Thank you for your kind words! β™‘
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@mariannewest ·
You are welcome. I need to get taller - maybe dirt would pile up under them :)
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