I only have two more months in the Netherlands--this glorious country. I will miss the people here, biking and market food.
How glorious it is to ride your bike for two or three hours through sheep fields, the sun gilding your back. How glorious it is, biking along the canal, wind on your shoulders. The sights: sheep, flat verdant fields, thatch-roofed A-frame houses, a shed with a blue door, a gaggle of girls wearing pink socks biking to lacrosse practice side-by-side. An elderly man and woman bicycling on a tandem bicycle. Cats hiding in a field, and windmills. When the sun shines on your bicycle, this country can be like paradise. There is no other place I would rather be.
Classes beckon, I enjoy time with friends, and the moments I am cycling through the Dutch countryside, those are the seconds when I feel most at home. Thank you West Virginia Rotary Clubs for these moments. I look forward to a lifetime of exploration and travel. It all started here, in Holland.
Pictures of perfect Dutch moments and images
The Bakkers Winkle! (My favorite bakery, where the scones are pieces of heaven, the jam is home-cooked and the hot chocolate is steamed milk poured over pieces of milk chocolate and white chocolate.
Flowers! (They seem like a Dutch invention--Holland imports more tulips than anywhere else)
Though rain is not a perfect Dutch moment, I have grown "used" to it. And it has not rained in over a week!
Eating raisin "ice" (ice cream) with friends
The first swim of the year (in a still-chilly-in-April Dutch lake)
Beautiful windmills and sheep
Dutch savory pancakes from the Pancake House (ginger, cooked apple slices and powdered sugar on one side; cheese baked into the batter and mushrooms on the other. Lekker! (yum)
The cosmopolitan baked goods of Amsterdam
First and third generation bonding over a bicycle. Ah.
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