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The Kinderdijk windmills are must-see sights for tourists. ... but winter — if you can handle the cold — offers a chance to ice skate past the windmills on frozen canals.
Bundle up if you take Holland America's wildly scenic Norway cruise on the Nieuw Statendam. Summer temps are in the mid-30s.
KINDERDIJK, Netherlands (AP) - The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s as a way to clear water from the low-lying landscape of the western Netherlands. Sometime in the 1950s, the ...
At the Kinderdijk Windmills, she shares how early residents made their below-sea-level lands habitable. Then, to the Colonies of Benevolence, a 19th century social experiment to help the poor.
At one time, there were more than 150 windmills in the Alblasserwaard and Vijfheerrenlanden areas; today, only 28 remain, 19 of which are in the Kinderdijk area. The eight mills that survive on De ...
The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s as a way to clear water from the low-lying landscape of the western Netherlands.Sometime in the 1950s, the millers and water board members ...
Netherlands — The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s as a way to clear water from the low-lying landscape of the western Netherlands. Sometime in the 1950s, the millers and water ...