Keukenhof - The Netherlands 29.4.1070

 Tulip Time publicity and below Daffodil Garlands for sale beside the road near Keukenhof.

From Den Oeven to Leiden and heading for Belgium.

Zuiyderzee - The Netherlands - 29.4.1070

From Wiki.  Afsluitdijk (Enclosure Dam), running from Den Oever on Wieringen to the village of Zurich in Friesland. It was to be 32 km long and 90 meters wide, rising to 7.25 meters above sea-level, with an incline of 25% on each side.

This dam runs across the mouth of the Zuiyderzee and in this photo of our Taxi below us, we were standing at the top of the Monument dedicated to the builder Dr Cornelis Lely.  Built in the 1920's.

Below from Google Maps today.

Our photo above was taken from the bridge across the dam wall, and a grab taken of that same bridge below from Google today.

A Grab from Google of the Dam from Den Oever to Zurich.

Google Map from Amsterdam to the dam over the Zuiyderzee.

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 28.4.1970

Alleyway,  somewhere in Amsterdam.

Statue of Rembrant near his home and today from Google... nothing much has changed.

This windmill was on our list of places to visit but for some reason we don't have a photo.

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 28.4.1970

The Heineken Brewery... Much to our delight we discovered that Heineken had free tours and tastings with snacks, so we were off to the factory like a shot :-)  it was the food for me and the beer for David that attracted us.  I drove into where we thought we were supposed to go to park the Taxi but we ended up in some sort of packing shed.  Angry packers approached us with wild gesticulations shouting in a loud Dutch!

I had no idea what they were saying but was trying to comply with their gestures when all of sudden one of them spotted the Kangaroo on the side and the AUS on the back then broke into perfect English and asked if we were Australian!  Yes I replied and they all of a sudden turned into the nicest most helpful of men.   One of them asked me if I knew his brother who had immigrated to Australia  :-)  (we got this sort of question often...) but when he said his brother lived in Mona Vale I was able to tell him that I came from the next suburb Newport, he'd heard of Newport Beach so we became the best of friends  LOL  They couldn't have been nicer after that and ushered us to the best parking spot and directed us to the entrance with smiles and laughs and plenty of English.

This wasn't the first time we'd received negative messages while in our London Taxi but it was the funniest, they were few and far between on the whole though.

Vondel Park in 1970 and today from Google today.

I can't believe I'm picking daffodils in this Park... I wouldn't dare to anywhere else I'm sure, so I must have seen others doing it , I wouldn't have been that brazen... would I??  Nah!  it must have been okay, I knew there were fines in Australia for picking the wild flowers in the bush so I wouldn't have risked a fine I don't think.

David trying out the Gents al fresco...  Gents were so lucky, I remember spending a lot of time finding a Loo for me in some of these big parks.

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 27.4.1970

 We found a beaut camping ground near the Olympic Stadium and spent three days exploring Amsterdam and the Museums Rujksmuseum, Stedelijk and the House of Rembrandt.  The buildings and canals were so beautiful we really enjoyed our stay.

Similar Bridge below, I looked and looked on Google to find the same bridge but there are just too many.

 Trams in Amsterdam and look at those Daffodils! 

Pennie on a Tram below.

 I searched and searched for this building on Google and eventually discovered it was the Amsterdam Railway Station... there were lots of works going on around it the day Google Street maps went there.

A couple of  modern and much longer trams.

Cologne - West Germany to Nijmegen - The Netherlands - 26.4.1970

 West German Border at near Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

 There's a little mystery here.  Street Google stops right on this border, it's available in The Netherlands but not in West Germany.   From the Google Map photo from the air, you can see the below but on the Street Google you see the photo above... I'm guessing the buildings in our photo taken in 1970... have been demolished and replaced by these???

 Beautiful and very flat Holland.  I know the photo below isn't the same spot as the one above, but it's close enough.

From Cologne to Amsterdam in The Netherlands.