What's Kinderdijk you ask? It's a place in the Netherlands! What's there you ask? Windmolens!!! Shut up Colleen, and stop trying to be cute you say? Ok.
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| *Photo courtesy of WeiWei Shang* |
Oh you said STOP being cute. Sorry.
Anyway, in case you didn't guess from the picture or you don't have google translate, windmolens = windmills. Kinderdijk is a little village in the Netherlands that has a bunch of old timey windmills (from about 1740). Back in the day, these windmills were used for managing the water level and pumping excess water into a reservoir. Now they mostly use diesel pumps, but the mills in Kinderdijk have been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site so they still attract a lot of tourists. There are museums in some of the windmill buildings explaining the history of water management and you can take boats up and down the canals to go to different windmills.
You can also take a lot of ridiculous pictures........
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| *Photo courtesy of Iris Zhang* |
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| *Photo courtesy of WeiWei Shang* |
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*Photo courtesy of WeiWei Shang*
Today, the Netherlands has over 1,000 surviving windmills all over the country. And that's not even counting mini-golf courses. So if you visit the Netherlands and you don't see a windmill, you aren't trying hard enough. In fact, you could say you.....blew it.....NO! YOU DON'T HAVE TO CLICK AWAY! I'LL STOP! I PROMISE!!
*Photo Courtesy of Weiwei Shang*
*Photo Courtesy of WeiWei Shang*
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