Zaanse Schans

19 August 2003

My friend Buck suggested that I make a day trip to Zaanse Schans to see the windmills and working farms there. So I took the train from Amsterdam, got off at the station Koog/Zaandijk and walked to the park (www.zaanseschans.nl). It was a beautiful day and the scenery was excellent. The following is what I saw.

• De Dood molen, mill outside the park on the other side of the canal
• The Zaan, from the bridge cross the Zaan
• museum row at Zaanse Schans
• De Huisman mustard mill
• windmill row, (for more information on the mills, visit www.zaansemolen.nl)
• windmill row
• bridge
• Klompenmakerij, wooden shoe maker, I bought three pairs of wooden shoes for my children here
• field near the Catharina Hoeve cheese barn, the little windmill pumps water out of the fields
• view from the deck of De Kat windmill, a paint mill
• the fast-moving blade of De Kat windmill, the power handled by this mill is amazing!
• the saw mill, from De Kat
• De Kat molen

After this, I walked back to the train station and took off for Haarlem.

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