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| There used to be many windmills here... |
More than 1000 in the XVII century |
But now only 13 remain, they are all museums |
Parag took many pictures of them |
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| Sheep, old houses and windmills |
The period when each house was built can be told by the size of its windows |
The first Albert Heijn supermarket ever! |
A nicely-decorated narrow house.. |
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| AH, once again |
The nice house had a doll in the window.. |
A typical street in old rural Dutch towns. |
Yasin. The picture didn't work... |
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| Sanny, Andrea & Elizabeth... |
Sanny taking a picture of me taking a picture of him.. |
Zhang Wei |
Oswaldo & Parag |
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| A room filled with old dolls... |
They must be pretty expensive... |
This is how people lived there a century and a half ago.. |
BTW, it was forbidden to take pictures there :) |
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| See the sign on the glass? I didn't.. |
Yep. That's me. I'm alive. |
A windmill. This time we're going in... |
Parag, Elizabeth, Andrea & Li Xin |
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| Your host, Don Corleone... |
A postcard-perfect picture! |
There were also canals there, of course... |
... and more windmills... |
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| Close-up view of a windmill |
Only two of the sails are unfurled now |
The mill! |
This is a machine made of wood.. |
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| Completely made of wood... |
Gears, drives and everything else... |
Gear teeth |
More machine components.. |
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| Close-up view of the rotors. |
Another windmill. |
This country is flat.. |
Wooden shoes! |
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| Sunday shoes.. |
More shoes from different ages.. |
Wedding shoes from the Pyrinnies. |
Show Copy-machine |
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| These are large shoes... |
Yasin. Meditating on life, the universe and everything else.. |
Then he noticed the camera... :) |
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