Great Building

This is an old picture taken at Enkhuizen. It is a tourist office, I believe it used to be a stock for amuniton. Great building, it looks a bit Roman-isch.

Russian buns

I have had friends over for dinner and cooked a real Russian meal. The dessert was a real success. Buns stuffed with a mixture of boiled maw-seeds with honey, cinnamon, raisins, treacle and some other spices.

Advert

Great advert, it looks like long island but it's a compilation of famous buildings all around the globe.

Entrance Gate

An empty gate, nobody there...

Bench

Autumn is really here.

Cows

I have been on a holiday to Russia, for that reason I have not been posting images for a while. But I am back :), I have made 800 pictures so I decided not to post any of them but continue with Holland pictures. This picture is of several weeks ago. We are going into autumn so the landscape doesn't look like this anymore..

Do you see it?

I didn't noticed it when I took the shot, but later on I did... Do you see the squirrel?

river and land

I am staying with the Dutch landscape theme for a while, I have made such good shots a couple of weeks ago. However the landscape doesn't look like this anymore, the autumn is setting in..

Milestone

The multifunctionality of a 18th century milestone... Now a days it is used by sheep to....

A Cheese soo formidable!

Yesterday I have been to the Cheese and Delicacy fair, there I met a cheese so tasty and so good! It rarely happens that your taste buds explode and that saliva comes in an instant, but with this cheese it really happened. It's an Italian cheese made of a combination of cow, goat and sheep milk which fermented in chestnut leaves.
My goodness it was soo good, I recommend it to everybody (who likes old cheese).

Another one...

This is a shot a bit closer. It is the same type of mill I posted on earlier.

Country

Great shot of the coutry side, about two weeks ago now. The moisture in the air give a dreamy look to it, and in the distance another windmill!

Love is in the air

This is a shot I made a while ago in the summer. I spotted a couple, who were very in love with each other, they stood out of the crowd so much, while their ways of conversation was not very different from the others. But their eyes radiated love!

Just nature

Just nature, not really just nature, it's human activity now only for the accommodation of nature. The water you see used to be a canal, part of a defence system of a fortified building, part of the so called water line. This was a defence system which would flood part of the country so alien armies could not progress to the states of Holland. The wood in the water used to be of the (walking) bridge to access the fortress. It is now a hangout spot for birds.

Old farm

An old farm on the road to Bodegraven. In Holland are a lot of 'hidden' farmers neighbourhoods. Meaning there are several roads and paths to a town or city going through rural areas. Sometimes it looks like time stood still.

House

Cool house located at the shore of the old Rheine. For American standard this house might not seem so special but for Dutch standards it is a huge and probably very expensive house.

Rent a Swan

A picture from the local 'Rent a Swan' business. The only thing I could see you rent a swan for would be a posh wedding, probably it makes money.

Yes Yes!

It's a bit of track but I post it anyway. Today I have run the 10 km 'canal run' of Utrecht. I have been training for two months. And to he honest, I had to concur something in me this morning, I was actually nervous but I did it! In one hour, I ran it with my sister and a mate from school (I am the tallest of the two)

We are walking on the 'trekpad' literally 'pull path' or towing path, it used to be used by horses to pull canal boats. In Holland they used mainly horses. In Russia it were usaully people Illa Repin made the most famous painting of Russia on this, 'The Wolga thugs'.

Landscape

We are leaving the mill and moving on, into the Dutch landscape, which is flat and very cultivated. I will do some posts on it. It was a lovely day for a walk!