It’s weekend and Saturday means first soccer, or football as we call it and the boys and their teams both won so that’s great for us because they will be chipper all weekend and the sun was shining.
BUT
we had another thing on the weekend agenda. We are going to the botanical garden in Holland called Keukenhof.
The fact that this was on the planning was ( well is ) for me a wonderful way to be busy.
This is a overall screenshot from my library and i made many shorts aswell while we drove up.
It’s a tourist attraction and when we get visitors from abroad we most certainly go but now we went ourselves after covid it’s nice to go again and test my GoPro camera. Ofcourse to try vlogs and photos.
When you buy tickets ( that has to be done you have to reserve a time slot ) you have to go to the site.
All dutchies know what the Keukenhof is, its our national pride.
The garden is so famous that its almost a business card for the netherlands.
The royals have given their names to the pavilions and i know for a fact that some summits had this as a intermezzo just to show of our bulby qualities.
Our tulips bulbs but more of our flowers are worldwide known for their quality and for their colors.
There you can read about the history and the way it started and grew out to be such a great place to go to when you are in my country.
source : text taken from this website https://keukenhof.nl/en/about-keukenhof/
The history of Keukenhof dates back to the 15th century. Countess Jacoba van Beieren [Jacqueline of Bavaria] (1401-1436) gathered fruit and vegetables from the Keukenduin [kitchen dunes] for the kitchen of Teylingen Castle. Keukenhof Castle was built in 1641 and the estate grew to encompass an area of over 200 hectares.
Landscape architects Jan David Zocher and his son Louis Paul Zocher, who also designed Amsterdam's Vondelpark, redesigned the castle gardens in 1857. That park, in the English landscape style, still constitutes the basis of Keukenhof. In 1949 a group of 20 leading flower bulb growers and exporters came up with the plan to use the estate to exhibit spring-flowering bulbs, signaling the birth of Keukenhof as a spring park. The park opened its gates to the public in 1950 and was an instant success, with 236,000 visitors in the first year alone. 2023 will be the 74th edition of Keukenhof. During the past 73 years Keukenhof developed into a world-famous attraction.
Again source is the website.
Ofcourse this deserves a place on my pinmapple map.
From Rotterdam it’s a 49 minutes drive by car. In the online ticket is also a place in the carpark included , so all that is taken care off before we leave. When we arrive it’s very busy and I think that’s because of the great weather.
These next photos are from the way to the Keukenhof,
Many foreigners and bus tours. We are amongst the small amount dutch visitors, which is very funny.
This is my country at his floralbest!!
Here is paft one of the picture bomb of the floral bulb bombs, I wil show of all of them, maybe in a vlog. Also the videos and the lensball photos i will show you in another blog ofcourse.
Thats all for now,
Happy weekend hivers !
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source : this website https://keukenhof.nl/en/about-keukenhof/
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