Sunday, November 04, 2007

Amsterdam, NL II

Kinderdijk. Those windmills were built in 1740’s, and now this place is registered for UNESCO. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands.

Therefore, there are many of them

Every windmill is a house, and a family lives there. I didn’t know this until my visit here, but as the sign says, depending on how they stop the wings, there are different meanings. There are four different kinds; cross, X, right-bottom or left-bottom. I don’t remember which one is witch, but for example, one meaning is someone’s death in the house or another one is a baby was born.

Photographed by Josh.


Josh came to visit Amsterdam from July 14th until the 30th. Except the four days in Spain, he was in Holland the rest of the days, but his suitcase was packed with Japanese stuff. Not only that, this is not even his suitcase, but mine! All these things couldn’t fit into his suitcase, so he had to borrow mine! And it is entirely occupied by food!

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