A day trip to The Netherlands (Utrecht/Amersfoort)

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amsterdam/holland MARCH 1977 - 30 years ago !
we had flown into amsterdam via KLM - boy , were those great flights !
car rentals were a lot less expensive in holland than in germany in those days , that was one of the reasons for flying into amsterdam .
also we wanted to spend a week along the moselle river - to taste the wines , so we stayed with a vintner in klotten .
btw by paying an extra $20 p.p. we received two nights in amsterdam at the hotel carlton , 50 % off the car-rental for the first week , canal cruise ... those were the days !

btw you may notice i managed to get "canal , bicycle AND bridge" into one picture ! (a bit of a squeeze ) :wink:
hbg

Terrific. A lot of the paint colors look, er, "buttery", sort of golden..

I like this sharply focussed photo with nice hue.

Your photos are wonderful, Walter. Trying VERY hard not to be green with envy...

I've tried bicycles and canals, but it's no good.

They sink.

aaaawwwww <getting>

Anytime I see pictures like these, I really start to miss Europe!

It's only a couple of weeks ....

Walter: You seem to be under the misapprehension I am intelligent enough to do more than look at pictures.

OY OY OY! (Hows that for intelligent)

I go so far as to connect the light in Utrecht and the light in Siena... clearly wrong re the actuality of light, but still, these photos remind me of some of mine from Siena.

The university with the Jan van Nassau monument

The previous, the cathedral (without tower) added ...

Non of the previous, but the cathedral's tower

View 'through' the tower towards the cathedral

Hi Walter

Thank you so much for posting your series of photograph, for one living downunder they brought back many memories of places which I frequented in my youth.

Dutchy.

Somehow, Dutchy, you and nimh inspired me doing that tour :wink:

Next photo is a view just aside the cathedral's tower

A tea and/or coffee break now

OK, I'm defibrillating. don't know which photo I might like best, though perhaps the very last. Bravura photos.

But also the place... I'm interested in those places... (which of course I should look up - google is so amazing. I'm still getting used to it existing.)

I just want to add that on a nice day any photo taken at a pretty place looks good.

Utrecht@google has some good informations.

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Although this craftman* is looking for more photos to come ...



... it will last a bit.


* detail of a pic which will be posted completely later as well.