Monday, June 4, 2007

Dutch Windmills

Once of the most well-known symbols from the Netherlands are windmills. Wherever you go you find windmills. They look pretty different from the Spanish ones Don Quijote fought against. In Spain, they are normally cylindrical and white coloured, whilst Dutch are conically or box shaped and brown... Check the difference. The first picture is from Castilla-La Mancha and represent the typical Spanish style. The second one is Kinderdijk, a place famous in Holland for having many windmills.



Sometimes, when the weather is good, it is nice to take your bike and go to take some photographs of the landscape here. As there are many windmills all around, I have taken photographs of most of them near Leiden downtown. I like them quite a lot and I think you can get and idea of what they look like.


Windmill De Valk. Main windmill in Leiden. Near the train station


Windmill De Put/ Some people call this one Rembrandt's windmill
because is near Rembrandt's birthplace.


Windmill at the end of Noordeinde

4 comments:

martin said...
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martin said...

ay gañaaaan, mu chulos los molinicos, pero mira que ponerte malo pa una vez que vienes...

cuando te vas otra vez para japan, que te voy a hacer un encargo...

aaaa, metete en youtube y busca "bonicanollores" tal y como está escrito, que te vas a partir el culo, en especial el video de jose y bel.

un abrazo.

martin said...

macho, esto de blogger es una mierda, te publica los comentarios dos veces, cogete un hosting gratutio y te instalas el wordpress

Alvaro said...

La verdad es q soy un desgraciao... jeje... en julio vuelvo otra vez, ahi ya esta prohibido ponerse malo y tonterias. Entonces habra que echar un basket y una buena fiesta en Embajada o donde sea ;-)

Los videos estos los habia visto ya... pq de vez en cuando busco a ver si hay algo nuevo de bonicanollores El de Bel y Jose bailando es cojonudo! XD

Pon alguno mas pronto!

Ya te dire algo de Japon cuando tenga planes concretos... pero para final de anyo casi seguro