Our trip to Holland: great pics!

Normally we intended to go to Normandy in France; but as the weather changed this weekend, we headed north to the Netherlands (some call it Holland, but that is just 1 province).
We went to the island of Walcheren, about 1 hour drive.

There is a beautiful park, called "Miniature Walcheren". The whole island is re-built there, in miniature. It is amazing how well some buildings are copied!
This is a general view
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland4.jpg

You can compare the size of the buildings to the "real people" you can see walking around. This is Bernard!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland8.jpg

Some more pics!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland2.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland3.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland5.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland6.jpg
more to come....

This is the townhouse of Middelburg
in miniature
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14.../holland11.jpg

and for real!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14.../holland10.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland7.jpg

and finally, a typical Dutch street in that city of Middelburg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t/holland9.jpg

We had a great day! Of course, we finished it with a gorgeous (and huge) ice-cream on a romantic patio ;) :) . I better not go on that d*** scale for a few days.... :p

Oh Lut, what a perfect day to see such wonderful sights - right down to the ice cream!!

Thanks for sharing - that is really interesting. The miniatures are perfect.

Looks like Legoland...:D ;) :D

Very cool!

VERY cool pictures!! Glad you had a great time!

Great pics Lut, I never managed to get to the Netherlands, I always found myself flying to Germany for some reason.:)

Sounds like you had a lovely day, Lut! :)

I think its so great and cute how much you and your hubby do together. You have the same tastes?

Great pictures, thanks for sharing with us!

It looks like you had a great day, Lut :) Great pics! :)

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Sounds like you had a lovely day, Lut! :)

I think its so great and cute how much you and your hubby do together. You have the same tastes?

Great pictures, thanks for sharing with us!

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We love doing things together!! Unfortunately we cannot do this very often, as Bernard has a very demanding job! (he is audit-partner at the Belgian branch of PriceWaterhouseCoopers). But as soon as he has some time off, we try to do something! We don't have completely same tastes, but we match ;) :)

Wow! What an amazing park - all those building are so detailed and cool - out of what materials are they made? Someone put a lot of time and effort into that project! Thanks for showing us the pictures!

When we lived in Germany for three years, we spent many a long weekend up in the Netherlands as it was our favorite destination:)

We never went to Walcheren so I really enjoyed seeing all of your pictures of the miniature Walcheren! That "typical Dutch street" was something I also remember because it appears that it has been swept clean - and so perfectly neat!

I am really glad that you and Bernard had such a nice time and thank you for sharing pictures of your holiday, Lut :D

What great pictures! Glad you had a good time! As for the ice cream, you have to indulge once in awhile!!

I've always wanted to visit Netherlands - Walcheren, the tulip fields, the windmills....mmmmm... and eat some good cheese.

How nice that you and Bernard were able to spend the day together! It sounds like you had a very nice time:)

Thank you!!
I wish that the weather would improve a little. We would love to do some more daytrips, but rain is all we get lately....:(