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* Holland hello and Holland goodbye *
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Hongyun and I have been struggling with fatigue, but nevertheless, we've been having a good time here in Holland. Our first day, we spent in a daze since we had hardly slept on the plane. We just wandered a bit and The next day we spent walking around the central Amsterdam area where all of the action and tourists are.

We also visited the Van Gogh museum which was rather nice. Did you know Van Gogh only painted for 10 years of his life before he went insane and shot himself? I knew he didn't have a good time of things, but I had no idea he imploded so horribly.

The Rijks Museum was a rather big disappointment. They only had a small portion of their collection available while the main museum is under construction. At least Rembrandt's Night Watch was on display.

The following day, we went out of Amsterdam to Zaans Schans to see functioning windmills. We saw one mill in action that was making peanut oil....a sight to see indeed.

Today we went to Alkmaar in the north of Holland for the cheese market where they've been doing large scale cheese trades for about 650 years now. There's an interesting process of quality inspection, weighing, and loading the truck. We're uploading the photos now, so you can check them out.

After the cheese market, we took a train down to Rotterdam to see some post-modern architecture and boy did we find some interesting buildings...again, the photos will speak for themselves when they are uploaded.

Now we're just resting and uploading as much as we can until we head to Venice tomorrow.

Tots! (bye in Dutch)











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