After our days ride some of us did an extra 5 km to go to Zaanse Schans. In 2014 Sarah came here with Margot but I stayed back to wait for my suitcase and bicycle which had not arrived yet. So I had not been here since 1978 when Ome Fritz brought Dave, Caroline and I here for a tour.
Zaanse Schans is a neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Zaandam, very close to Amsterdam.
The mid-19th century saw the start of the industrial revolution in the Zaan district. What you see today on the Zaanse Schans is how a living and working community in the Zaan district looked back then: farmsteads, paths, wooden houses, warehouses and windmills, ditches and fields. Once on the quaint grounds surrounded by water, windmills and green wooden houses , you will delight in looking around a working mill and see the clog makers at work while learning about the history of wooden shoes .
Approaching the windmills
Another cashier dressed in costume
By a bridge
Lots of wooden shoes to sell
Josephine and I filling the shoes
I really like photos with a fence in the foreground and windmills in the distance.
And another bridge
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