Scheveningen, The Netherlands! At the beach

Kurhaus hotel

At the Pi

In the garden on a sunny day!

Queensday! Koninginnedag!

Rijswijk

Delft



Markt in Delft



Delft

Delft

Poffertjes!

 Description of the recipe:

A traditional Dutch delicacy.

Preparation of the recipe:
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the milk. In a separate bowl, combine the buckwheat flour, flour, eggs, yeast, sugar, salt and half the milk. Whisk smooth. Now add the remaining milk and beat again. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow to rest for an hour.
Melt butter in a frying pan. When it sizzles, add teaspoonfuls of the batter in circular movements to create the mini pancakes. Turn the poffertjes around as soon as the bottom has set, using two forks.
Serve Pancake Puffs with strawberries, whipped cream and a dusting of powdered sugar.

Ingredients for this recipe:
1 level tsp instant yeast

1 tbsp milk
1 cup buckwheat flour (100 g)
1 cup flour (100 g)
2 eggs
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups warm milk (250 ml)
1 tbsp butter

Poffertjes!

Poffertjespan!

In the Netherlands one can buy ready to cook

'poffertjes' mix!

A goose, a moorhen and a nest!

Purple tulips at de Keukenhof Gardens! Lisse!

Purple tulips!

Where Keukenhof is situated now, was a hunting area in the 15th century. Herbs for the kitchen of the castle of Jacoba van Beieren were also collected here; hence the name Keukenhof.
The current park was a section of the sizeable estate of Slot Teylingen, with beautiful untamed bushes and dunes. After the decease of Jacoba van Beieren Keukenhof fell into the hands of rich merchant families. Baron and baroness Van Pallandt invited landscape architects J.D. and L.P. Zocher, designers of the Amsterdam Vondelpark, to make a design for the garden around the castle. This design, in the English landscape style, has always been the basis of Keukenhof.
At the moment the estate belongs to a Foundation. On the initiative of the Lisse mayor of that time and a number of leading flower bulb growers and exporters, an open air flower exhibition was organised here for the first time in 1949. This expanded to an annually recurring event that has always drawn great numbers of visitors from all over the world. This is how Keukenhof became the park that we now know.
(bron: http://www.keukenhof.nl/)

A very old bridge and a canal!

Roe deer!

Little houses for ducks and geese!

Spring flowering trees!

Dutch costumes!

Oud-Loosdrecht! Loodsdrechtse Plassen!

This area between the Vecht and Utrecht Ridge was created by peat. Ditches and legakkers here ever had to win and drying of peat. Some legakkers have been swept away by strong winds and waves. This led to large and small lakes. In some lakes is naturally pure water seepage to the surface. This nutrient-poor calcareous water nourishes rare aquatic plants. The Vechtplassen are an important link in the ecological network, the lifeline of contiguous Dutch natural area.

Behind the white house:
De Loosdrechtse Plassen

Through a rainy window

Snowy picture!

Nice winter landscape!

Green parakeet!

The bird is green with a red beak!

At the moment there live some 10.000 to

12.000 green parakeets in

the Netherlands. They live especially

in the citys, because there they can

easily get some winter food.

Stompwijk Drie molens! Three mills at Stompwijk!

Winter!

Summer!

Drie molens bij Stompwijk is een heerlijke plek om even te ontspannen, te wandelen, iets te drinken of zelf een kano te huren en een stukje te varen.
Three mills near Stompwijk is a lovely place to relax, to walk, to drink something in the little restaurant or you can hire a canoe to sail.

Ice fun!

 



Wateringen, Molen van Wateringen! Mill, Wateringen!

A mill called 'Windlust', Wateringen!

The flour mill was established in 1869,

replacing an earlier wipkorenmill at the

same place, established in 1326.

In 1930 the wind power was turned off

and the mill felt into disrepair.

In 1969 the mill was purchased by

"Friends of the Water Mill". On May 1, 1972

the restoration was completed and the

mill was back into use, with only one

pair of stones. 

Below the mill is a store located, where

flour of the mill is sold.

A flower shop and an old water well!

Flower shop in my home town last summer!

Last year they found by repair work an old water

well dating back to 1640. The water well is restored and

a glass plate has been made to see the old

well.

Typical Dutch clogs!

Delft Blue Mill

Most of these items are for sale in Delft souvenir stores, but the Delft Blue wall plates, as well as this Delft Blue mill can also be found in Dutch houses nowadays, but the clogs are mostly worn by farmers.