All of our travel up to now has been by public transportation: train, tram and bus. It has been very easy (especially when Jeff has the routes, times, maps, etc on his phone). This morning we got a car and headed north to the province of Friesland. There is a bridge called Afsluitdijk that was built on a newly built dike that was built to protect the Netherlands from the North Sea.
The dunes and the North Sea.
We saw a lot of tulip fields on this trip. I later learned that 60% of all tulips are grown in Northern Netherlands. I also learned that they cut the tulips for whoever to have the flowers then later dig up the bulbs. The large part of the bulb is what is packaged and sold as bulbs to be planted. The remaining smaller bulbs that are attached is what is replanted in the fall for the next spring's flowers.
We lunched at the Lazy Lemon in Leeuwarden. A store selling groceries had eggs for sale. The eggs were stacked outside on the sidewalk. Then we walked through a tiny town, Blessum, with a very old church.
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