Friday, April 27, 2018

Rotterdam, The Netherlands






Our excursion today was to visit the Tulip festival at Keukenhof.  Mary and I both agree that pictures cannot do justice to what you actually experience when you are there.  To be surrounded by so many flowers of many different colors, artfully arranged in various flower beds was truly amazing.
Mary found a reference that there were over 7 million flowers in this 79 acre garden!  And after walking several miles around it today, I believe it. Everywhere we looked was a new picture waiting to be taken!  We did constrain ourselves a bit and it took me a while to sort through them and select these to add to my blog.
There were also many tulip fields in the distance but those pictures were not as impressive as these.
Mary and I did each enjoy a whipped cream waffle there for lunch today.  It was neat to enjoy them while sitting on a bench surrounded by these beautiful flowers.

Click on a picture to enlarge it, the top one is Mary trying out some oversized but colorful wooden shoes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! What amazing photos! How beautiful. It's sad that tulips have such a short season but I'm sure they have different varieties that stretch it out a little bit. Thanks for sharing your great pictures. Keep on having fun!
Gail

Anonymous said...

Beautiful !!!!!!!!!Pat