I love water, this is one of the reasons I like The Netherlands so much. Everywhere you look is a canal, a lake or the open sea. I choose to see Kinderdijk this weekend … mainly because it because it involved a 35 minutes boat ride.

Saturday it poured down all day and the sky cleared just 20 minutes before our departure. Nothing unusual in The Netherlands. Weather here changes from sunshine to heavy rain and vice-versa in just a few minutes.

Being on the Nieuwe Maas river, with my hair blowing in the strong wind the deck moving steady in the strong current and the beautiful riverside landscape passing by was dream-like. We drank some hot chocolate and hat a chat with 4 ambitious guys from Germany, trying to start AIESEC in Iran.

Kinderdjik was the place where I saw the biggest number of windmills ever. There were about 20-30 windmills (the ones I could count) standing next to each other. It was like time stopped there. Just us and the windmills, each with its sale in a different position symbolizing sorrow or happiness. The soil was damp and the air moist, just preparing for another coming rain.

The ride back was characterized by strong winds and showers. I most surely got a cold after this, but it was worth it.

Cheers,
The Lion.^[1]

1. The song to this post is: Mika – Grace Kelly. Open “Lion’s Radio” and scroll down to listen to it. [»]