Windmills

You can't come to Holland with seeing a windmill or two.  Today we visited Trish's cousin Annalise and her husband Jules in Zierikzee. This is a delightful little fishing port south of Delft.  To get there we had to go through Rotterdam.  We should have gone around the ringroad, but part of it was closed so we were sent into the suburbs and we found it hard to get out.  I cant claim we saw every street in Rotterdam, but we saw a lot of them and some of them twice.  Eventually we escaped to Zierikzee where we were served coffee in a house that dated from the 1500s and had been in the family for 6 generations.  Zierikzee itself has two windmills, but we came home via Kinderdijk, whch has 19 windmills and they are UNESCO World Heritage listed. One of them was open and we went in and saw it in operation.  In the past, the miller and his family lived in these noisy confined spaces and the sails turned day and night.  The mechanisms are entirely made of wood.