Summertime Travels
Lyric's Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Keukenhof is one of the largest flower gardens in the world. It covers 79 acres and is best known for its for its stunning display of tulips. In fact, this amazing garden is only open to the public for 10 weeks from March-May as that is the tulip season! The day we were there was a little overcast and drizzly but nothing would keep any flower-loving tourist from taking a walk through the gardens - tulips of every variety and color as far as the eye can see. Some of the tulip varieties had blooms bigger than my hand! It's even more staggering to know that each tulip garden is dismantled after the blooming season and replanted each fall to bloom again the following spring. No wonder Keukenhof is called the Garden of Europe!Â
Kinderdijk is just outside Rotterdam in the Netherlands. There are 19 operational windmills there that date back to the 17th century. It is fascinating to tour a working windmill, seeing how the millers lived a century or two ago, and how today's millers live as they are the ones to still run the windmills. Most of the windmills in this region are used to remove water from the low lying areas rather than to provide electricity or other power. A miller is required to run their mill 60,000 rotations per year. How they get all those rotations in is up to them!Â
Some notes on Bruges - If you happen to be planning a trip to Holland, it's worth considering a side trip to Belgium and for sure a stop in Bruges!
You'll enjoy amazing gardens, life in a canal city, medieval sections, fantastic food - the sites and sounds of a modern Europe and also those of 17th century Europe just around every corner! Â
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