Windmills & Holland

Holland and windmills. They just belong to eachother... There are a few places in Holland where you have many windmills in the same village. The pictures here where taken in Zaanse Schans, a beautiful pitoresk town nearby Amsterdam. The oldest windmill was build around the year 1700.

Dutch coast at Walcheren

 

Holland has a really great coast with kilometers of pure sand beaches. Walcheren, which used to be an island in the old days, offers beaches with a lot of wooden pilars. Those pilars are protecting the sand dunes and keeping the sand on it's place.
The funny looking tower used to be an old church, but the church was destroyed long time ago. The tower remained and they decided to build a lighthouse on top of the old church tower. The result looks quite bizar.