07-14-12 To Kinderdijk Photos (rainy day)

First glimpse from my window...a windmill! Okay, so Don Quixote wouldn't recognize it, but it's Holland and it's a windmill.

Guess which meal?

River splits right and left

First coal barge I'd seen

Heading back to my cabin (337; closest cabin to the library)

Apparently it's vacation time in Holland, rain or no

The exposure on some of these photos is a little off, due to compensating for  gloom of rain.

Carnival time

Neck and neck

Waiting for briefing on debarkation in Amsterdam

Rumen, my Bulgarian room steward. A really sweet kid.

Lunch: peach lemonade, Dutch cheese soup, beets, open face sandwichs (that's lox on the left. I love lox)

A millionaire has built an exact (sic) replica of the ark and will be sailing it from country to country

A police boat, I believe

Entering Rotterdam

Odd monument, odder building

Rotterdam has a large mosque, apparently

Odd, but I like it

Arrived Kinderdijk. I assume these huge screws somehow generate electricity?

Hey, it's Holland!

The Kinderdijk Windmills are a UNESCO World Heritage site

Windmills in the rain

One windmill is open to the public. Camera lens is rain-spattered

Mill wheel

Sitting area...the entire living areas are very small.

Families of 6 or 7 people lived in working windmills

The turning blades turn the shaft

How a windmill works

Beware the zombie apocolypse

This is how they change the angle of the blades

You can never have too many photos of windmills, I always say

Now a private home, as are 13 of the 14 windmills on the site

Back on the ship, Andrew, our Program Director