Today we off to Volendam and Zaanse Schans another day of adventuring :)
Volendam is a sea side town north east of Amsterdam. Its primary draw is to those who can afford vacation homes and have boats in the harbour. It is defiantly a tourist favorite since there were SO many tourist groups and souvenir shops along the pier. To me it was a combination of the Comox Harbour because of all of the boats within the harbour. As well as White Rock for all the shops, restaurants and liveliness along the pier. We soaked up the sunshine and
Zaanse Schans aka Windmill time!! Its only expectable in the Netherlands. It was beautiful, so picturesque! On one half of the windmills were behind a large canal and on the other side were fields that stretched for a vast distance (especially since everything is so flat in the Netherlands). In between the two were even more canals and islands where there were sheep grazing. Each windmill was cultivating energy for certain task. For example one was using energy to make peanut oil and the other to dry clothes. There was also a cheese factory, with samples! I tried SO many different types if cheese sheep, goat, cow, smoked, with herbs and my favorite lavender cheese! First of all it was purple which is just awesome and secondly it tastes exactly to what I would imagine lavender to :) There was also a clog museum where It showed the advancement and history of clogs throughout the years. It was super interesting! To top it all off there was a demonstration of clogs being made. It literally take 10 minutes to carve and make clogs out if a single piece of wood; however they had to dry them for 3 weeks before they can be painted! See there was really EVERYTHING at Zaanse Schans!