[summer with the eaters] den haag

Visiting Madurodam after 1,5 years living in the Netherlands felt way much different than a year ago. Last year, not knowing a lot about the Netherlands, it seemed that everything looked the same to me. 

This year, I could easily see the miniatures of St. Jan’s Cathedral of Den Bosch, the Academiegebouw of Leiden, the Rijksmuseum, kaasmarkt in Alkmaar, Efteling, Dam Square, Peace Palace, etc.

St. Jan’s Cathedral of ‘S-Hertogenbosch

kaasmarkt in alkmaar

binnenhof in den haag

academiegebouw in leiden

dam square

molen de valk, leiden

keukenhof

And I had a great (despite rather difficult) time with my new lens! 😀

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mendadak madurodam

09.04.2009

Another unplanned journey.

I was just going to the Embassy (the real Indonesian Embassy, not the night club, ha-ha) to take some pictures of the Election, and since there was a time difference between the election itself and the counting, I thought of just going to the city centre to have a little walk before returning to the embassy.

But then when I was just taking the bus back to the centre, I met Florin, who also had just gone to the election and wanted to visit Madurodam. It turned out that Florin was actually an ITB graduate, and a friend of my friend Rayi. Since I actually had no agenda whatsoever in the city centre, I decided to join her to Madurodam 🙂

Florin and I

The visit to Madurodam turned out to be a nice one. Despite it was rather expensive (13 euros) for a rather 8pt park, I still had a really nice impression of how the Netherlands was in general. I couldn’t wait to travel around the Netherlands after visiting this place.

St Jans Cathedral

Dom Tower

rijksmuseum

rijksmuseum

rijksmuseum

concert gebouw

vrijde paleis

Connexxion bus

a chatty girl and some suspicious men

julia gillard and an old man 😛

you see the orchestra in the back? they really play music!

me and a windmill

the crow

klomptjes that look like cheese

cherry blossoms

lavenders

camel

elephants

railway track

utrecht centraal

containers

amsterdam arena

KLM planes

conveyor belt

erasmus bridge

get your souvenir!

me and the dutch lady

pubs

street of leiden

huge klompen!

madurodam

I think that Madurodam was not also nice to give a general view about the Netherlands, which was in particular nice for tourists who might not have much time to travel to all the interesting places, but also to make a list of which places you wanted to see (for those who stay longer in the lowlands country).

In addition to the nice miniature buildings (and figurines), there was a special Sesame Street exhibition, so I was super happy!

madurodam and a giant elmo head

me and elmo

elmoooooo!!

it’s two! two bats! ha ha ha ha ha!

really, i almost joined the line..

when ernie suddenly pops in near the dolmens

elmooooooo!!