It's been quite some time since I last posted something here on my blog. I didn't exactly plan to take a break from blogging, it just happened. Maybe the fact that I discovered Instagram last summer has something to do with it. It is so easy to take a picture and post it on Instagram. If you'd like to see what I've been up to, you can always take a look at my Instagram here. It goes without saying that over the last six months I didn't take all that many pictures with my camera but recently I did.
About three weeks ago, we went to Holland for three days and that of course was more than reason enough to grab the camera and take a whole lot of pictures I'd love to share with you all. Enjoy!
On our way to Amsterdam we decided to make a stop in Gouda, known for its Gouda cheese of course but I was looking forward to see the beautiful old cityhall standing in the middle of Gouda's marketsquare. That view I didn't exactly get though. Can you believe it, right on the day we passed through Gouda, there was the annual fabric spectacle going on on the marketsquare. The place was really filled with fabric stalls. I never saw so many fabrics together. If I had been on my own, I certainly would have taken the time to have a closer look and maybe even buy some fabric but that wasn't the case.
Behind the stalls you can see the 'waag', the building where the cheese was weighed. It's now a national monument. You can buy cheese or typical souvenirs from Holland in there now and there's a cheese museum. It stands across the cityhall on the marketsquare.
No pictures of an overview of the marketsquare with the cityhall in the middle as I had expected to take, but pictures looking up to the part of cityhall that wasn't hidden behind fabric stalls.
Love the red and white shutters!
Love the red and white shutters!
It really is a pretty building. And notice the blue sky! It was a gorgeous Spring day!
I must have been the only one taking pictures of the cityhall,
secondary as it was to the fabric that day ;)
But there's more to Gouda than the cityhall and the marketsquare.
Like Amsterdam it also has his 'grachten', canals, as you can see on the pictures below.
One last view on the cityhall and that was it for our short stop in Gouda.
Next time, I'll show you how we experienced Amsterdam.
Marian
