We visited Madurodam with the kids today. The weather was fabulous and it was a lovely thing to do. Nice and relaxing. Madurodam is an outdoor theme park with lots of minuature versions of famous Dutch buildings. So naturally windmills are some of the first things you see when you enter...
This building is a water-tower I believe. We used to drive past it everytime we went to visit my grandparents close to Rotterdam. My mom and dad always said "Look, there's the cigar", meaning that the long ride was almost over.
Overview of the park.
When you get close to some places it's almost real.
The Dam. You can see the palace on the left, the "Nieuwe kerk" on the right and Magna plaza in the back.
Minuature version of the replica of VOC ship "Amsterdam".
Amsterdam canals. In the back is the Munt tower.
This building from Amsterdam is called "The ship". It was designed in the "Amsterdamse school" style.
This house on the left is actually one of my favourite Dutch museums. The real one is in Friesland and houses the oldest working planetarium in the world. Check out
their website here.
Village scene. Wouldn't know if it's a random scene or if it's actually from somewhere...
"Lange Jan" ("Tall John") from amusementpark "The efteling".
Trains were driving everywhere.
Tiny trainstations.
Big trainstations...
Cargo train in an industrial area.
Of course the burning ship was still there. Apparently I liked this particularly much as a kid when I was here with my family.
This is the fruit/veg auction in Broek op Langendijk close to where I lived.
Couldn't tell you what this is but it looked very nice ;-)
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