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NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM 2006: Trip
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The next day we had a late
start because we needed to do our laundry in the washing
machine. We had problems with the Dutch instructions and
accidentally put it on the longest cycle time. No matter
what we tried the machine doggedly continued with the
original program. When it eventually finished we cycled
to the Kroller-Muller museum.
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The museum is set in the Hoge
Veluwe national park, which is the largest
national park in the Netherlands and has paid admission.
We had a late lunch in the museum cafeteria and then
spent an hour or so looking round the exhibition. There
was a remarkably eclectic collection of paintings and
sculptures, the Picassos and Van Goghs hanging unheralded
alongside less well known artists. The security was
again unobtrusive and there was the awesome feeling
of being able to study priceless works of art as freely
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for too long but continued our tour south through the
park towards Arnhem. There is an unusual sand
blow area on the way. |
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We then returned to
the Hunting Lodge in a wide loop through pleasant
and, for the Netherlands, remarkably hilly country.
We stopped at a supermarket in Eerbeek to buy food
and cooked our standard holiday meal of spaghetti carbonara
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