A day trip to The Netherlands (Utrecht/Amersfoort)

I especially liked this one ...


.... with those interesting windows

I photographed the other old town gates



An old monastry

Well, this would be one the best photos I've made that day, IF I had noticed that the skyfilter (lens) was dirty

This is the view from the other site



And here, you should switch on your loudspeakers and listen to that guy playing the guitar (like his daughter and I did) :wink:

Houses along the canal and a canal with houses and ...

Some more house, which might especially be of interest for those, who haven't been to a smaller town in the Netherlands before.
(I especially like that really small house :wink: )

That was my selction of photos from a day-out in Utrecht and Amersfoort.

On my way back I stopped short at a place I haven't been for about 40 years, in Buurse, a 'church village' in the municipality of Haaksbergen.

Friends of our family owned a big farmhouse there, used as a weekend/holiday cottage and for their horses. I really liked to stay there.

I didn't re-find many places I've been around in those days, bit there was still the old church with the waterpump.

And therefor, I post two photos of that ensemble here and now.
Thanks for listening :wink:

Thanks so much for the photos. Great water pump...

I liked that smallest house too - and the paving.

Thanks, Dutchy, your comments are deeply appreciated!

thanks for your added comments , duchy !
i'll now put an old record on :
"remember holland :
the jaap volkhoff orchestra and the freddy dyke singers" performing :
- daar waar de molens staan ,
- mooi amsterdam ,
- ik ben verliefd op een keukenmeid etc.
always great entertainment !
hbg

Thanks for reminding me hamburger, I always listen to Dutch music whilst on the threads, try http://www.radiocontinu.nl/1024/extra.php, you may enjoy it.

thanks , duchy !
i used to listen to hilversum - shortwave , but my old german radio bit the dust !
hbg

And your comments inspired me to look up online someone I knew years ago. He is a dutch american. At the time, he was our lab dishwasher, a senior premed student, very smart and involved in he politics of the time. Turns out, he's still a cutie in his recent photo, has a good med practice and was voted best professor at his med school. I knew he'd go far, and it's such a pleasure to see.