The morning "Countryside" tour consisted of going to de Zaan, the oldest industrial area in the world that has working windmills. We got to tour Het Jonge Schaap...a cap winder sawmill that still works!!! The people working in it were wearing wooden shoes.
We even saw a dutch bicycle...how I wish they had ones like this over here...they would be so much easier with kids. Anniek wanted to take a picture of one.
We then went to the city of Volendam which is a fishing village. We got to see how Gouda cheese is made and try numerous different flavours.
We then had a lunch break and went to the place the tour guide suggested to eat for lunch. I tried eel which was surprisingly really good!!! Anniek wasn't as adventurous and had a personal pizza for lunch.
After lunch we took a 10 minute boat ride on Europe's biggest freshwater lake to the island of Marken and went to a wooden shoe factory and we got to see how they are made.
In the afternoon we went on "The Delft and The Hague" tour. We got to tour the Delft factory and see them painting Delft and we got to tour the city of Delft.
We then toured around in the bus the city of Hague. It was raining by this time which didn't really matter because it was a by bus looking at the old Queens castle that she still lives in...and the new Kings castle...as well as the parliament building, peace palace and different embassies for different countries.
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