What do you expect to see on a postcard written just Holland on it? (no certain city or town I mean).. Tulips? Windmills? Wooden shoes? :P A few things very common Dutch, obviously, apart of views of the cities, wouldn’t you guess? Let us see these cards to judge…..
Holland from Shuff. Windmill – checked. And it’s the Kinderdijk windmill, one of the UNESCO world heritages. Other pictures are of Zandvoort Northsea beach, Volendam harbour, Amsterdam Royal Palace, Scheveningen boulevard and Graft.
Holland from Sas80. Windmill - checked. Or rather, a cool image of windmill at the body of motorbike! Tulips – checked. Bicycles – yeah, I have heard that Dutch people mostly ride bicycles. It’s cool and perhaps because distance from within places are not too far in the Netherlands, and they have cool weather unlike here that it will be a crime to ride a bike under hot sun and you’ll be sweating right after the first hundred meters! And wafers – I didn’t know wafers were among Dutch specialitis as well… but it doesn’t sound strange either. Yum.. wonder how it tastes.
Holland from Quispi. Wooden shoes – checked. Though the shoes look funny, they are interesting and fun! Looks like an impossibly hassle to wear them with a comfort, no? But see the girls… they can jump rope skipping wearing wooden shoes, so it wouldn’t be that bad. And that wooden shoe boat! Looks real cozy, doesn’t it? I have a pair of Dutch wooden shoes as well – exactly like those in yellow color… except in a form of fridge magnet! :) Why are they in yellow color, any idea?
Holland from Dameg. Well, no windmills or tulips or wooden shoes here.. but what are these?? It’s cheese, can you imagine? :D This place is Alkmaar cheese market and since 1593 it’s a tradition they they sell loads of cheese in bulk on every Friday. I love love cheese but since we get only imported cheese, they’re rather expensive here.. I should move to Holland!
Holland from Sun_vk. Windmill – checked. So many windmills in this awesome artsy card. Those blue illlustrations are on ceramic tiles.. and I love the texts on some of them:
Daily Prayer.
O Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I am talking about.
And another:
This house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy.
And the toilet bowl says:
Use me well and keep me clean. I’l never tell what I have seen. LOL.
