We wanted to take one more trip before Colin starts school and summer is over so we decided to go to Holland. What a wonderful place to visit! We went up Thursday night so we could get to Alkmaar to see the Friday morning cheese market. The cheese porters dress up in their traditional costumes and carry the cheese on wooden sleds to the weighing house, then once it is weighed they take it back outside and load it up on big wagons to go wherever.
Bill first heard about this 12 years ago when we lived in Germany before but we haven't been able to see it until now. The traffic was horrendous and it took us awhile to find a place to park, we worried we had missed it, but there was a lot of cheese to move around so we got lots of good pictures! The town of Alkmaar is quite scenic also...we loved the buildings, bridges, canals and yes...even a windmill right in town. What's not to love?!
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I would so make that layout say cheese ROFL NEVER have I ever seen anyone tote cheese that way I HAVE TO SAY!
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