Tag: windmills

Travel Tuesday Answer

In this week’s Travel Tuesday post, I posted a riddle about finding windmills in the posted image.There were several answers given and one was spot on!

In this week’s Travel Tuesday post, I asked the question of my intrepid readers about how many windmills they could find in the image that I posted. There were several attempts at this riddle and I am happy to say that there was one that was right on the money! Congratulations to Chris Breebaart! Please go visit Chris’ blog “What’s (in) the Picture?” where he shares his excellent photography!

Here’s the image that I posted, so you don’t have to go back…

Windmills Abound

There were several tricky bits to this, as some of the windmills are partially obscured and only parts are visible. As a matter of fact it was so tricky that my first attempt to answer the question was off by 1 windmill! However, looking at the source image and enlarging it quite a bit, I think that I found all of them.

Here’s my annotated version of the image…

Windmill Answers

The most difficult one to find is #10, as a little bit of it is visible through the capstan of windmill #9.

Hope you enjoyed this little puzzle!

Travel Tuesday

We’re restarting this series with a visit to the Netherlands, specifically Kinderdijk in 2022.

As I was thinking about what kind of post to put together for today, the idea of re-establishing a series of travel images might be of interest. So here we go, bringing back some of those moments that captured my eye and imagination. Let’s start this week with the country of my birth: the Netherlands.

Here’s a moment from travels back to the home country…

Windmills Abound

In 2022 I visited Kinderdijk, well-known for its abundance of windmills, for the first time. Even though I grew up less than an hour from Kinderdijk, the thought of going there never crossed my mind. After all windmills are all over the country with about 1,200 of them still remaining; once there were 10,000 of them, but technology has replaced most of them.

With this image I wanted to provide a sense of yesteryear, when 10,000 windmills would have dotted the countryside. I’m curious how many of you will be able to find all of the ones in this image…

A Kinderdijk Thanksgiving

Best wishes for Thanksgiving! On a rainy day, we go back to a memorable visit to Kinderdijk in the Netherlands.

Greetings everyone and a Happy Thanksgiving to folks in the United States. As today ends up being a rather rainy day in Massachusetts, I thought that an image with rain in it might be appropriate.

This shot is from one of the stops that my wife had along our cruise with Viking River Cruises from Amsterdam to Basel…

Kinderdijk Rain and Shine

In the Netherlands the weather can change pretty quickly and this day typified that phenomenon; as rain was falling the Sun was already making an appearance creating for a rather interesting vista.

This wonderful site is a great place to visit to get steeped in the history of windmills and what the Dutch did centuries ago to keep their feet dry and water table under control. Of course, this tends to be visited mostly by tourists, as those of us who grew up in the Netherlands are very familiar with windmills, as they literally are just about everywhere across the western part of the country.