Friday, September 21, 2007

Our adventures for the day took us to the town of Delft to see the Royal Dutch Porcelyne de Fles pottery. Made by hand since the 17th century. They are celebrating their 350th anniversary this year! It was interesting to see all of the pottery. They are so detailed and it is all done by hand! No wonder it costs so much.

After we saw that museum we stayed in Delft to visit the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk (new and old church), which was also neat to see. The Nieuwe Kerk holds the tombs of royal family members from the House of Orange, while the Oude Kerk holds tombs of other famous people, like the painter Vermeer. However, we weren't able to find his gravestone because we only had 10 minutes before it closed to look. Ah well, at least we can say we were there.

Since all the places close at 6:00pm, it was time to leave Delft and head out to Kinderdijk to see the 19 windmills that are still in use today. We arrived there just as the sun was setting, so we were able to make several beautiful pictures. Any earlier, and it they all would have been daylight pictures, any later and it would have been too dark. Perfect timing!!

Finished with our sightseeing, we began the journey home, but since Tante Marianne had never been there before, she needed a navigator. Being in the backseat, where I could turn on the light to see my map, the job fell upon me. I never had to navigate anybody before, but thanks to an excellent map we got to where we needed to be. It was a really good thing I bought that map before I came! Also, thank you Tante Tina for the guidebook, it has been well used!!

For all of our beautiful pictures from today's adventures click here