Holland 2005

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

This is a scale for weighing witches. If they were too light, then they must have been a witch.

This building had cool green glass windows.

The city of Oldwater

Oulwatter

This is a town that was preserved from the 1500s

Free parking

I saw hundreds of houses that were just as beautiful.

That would be a fun place to live.

Ok, I know that this is a picture of cows, but sooooo much of our time driving around holland looked like this.

Rhyne river

A small town that specializes in silver work.

This is part of a canadian airplane which is now a WWII monument.

We went to church on Sunday. Marcel showed remarkable language skill by translating the entire sermon to me in English.

Marcel at a cafe in a small village.

This is a look at the workshop.

This is one he just finished.

This is a new one that he is working on.

Marcel brought me to the workshop of his Icon Painting teacher.

I don't think you can understand the bike culture with out seeing it first hand.

The very tip top of the tower.

I liked liked these tall houses

Houses on the canal.

The city from above.

Where the rest of the smaller bells were housed

Looking out from on top.

This church used to be connect to the tower from which I took the photo, but a tornado took out the middle section.

The church courtyard.

View from on top of the tower.

This bell is huge. The picture does not do it justice.

We walked up the 460 some steps to get to the top of the tower.

A public Urinal. I saw several of these in Amsterdam as well be did not think to ask about them. Marcel said these are used by the people who would typically pee on the streets in other countries. Maybe SdC should look into getting a couple of these. :)

Looking down the street

I think this was the house for the bishop

If you look really close on this statue you can see a spiderweb on it's head.

This plaza reminded me of something out of Lord of the Rings.

cool looking gargoyle

During the protestant reformation. Protestants smashed all of the heads off of the cathoic statues. Ties between catholics and protestants have been strained in holland up till the very recent past.