Today was the day to visit Keukenhof garden and had required elaborate planning. Even the garden's web site had warned people off visiting today because many of the roads around the garden would be closed to accommodate the annual flower parade from lunchtime.
Not to be deterred we set off at 07:30 to be there for the garden opening at 08:00 and this was an inspired move. Not only did we arrive before 08:00 but we were in the garden by then and for the first 90 minutes or so it was relatively quiet.
As you can see from the photos the garden was stunning and the LLW was in her element. We spent just over three hours there and walked the whole garden but by the time we were ready to leave it was absolutely heaving with visitors.
We were concerned about exiting the car park, which by now was overflowing, but Dutch organisation meant that a very efficient one way system allowed us out in no time.
Our plan was to head east through Lisse and thereby avoid all of the roads closed for the parade. This proved successful and whilst the traffic in the other direction was horrendous, we made steady progress to our destination of Buitenkaag where we planned a cycle ride along canals and meres. This was lovely and whilst we were slightly disappointed that the greatly anticipated Fietspont (bicycle ferry) was not in operation until May, we had a great ride although the LLW did complain that the 15 miles we had covered was longer than she had expected.
Not to be deterred we set off at 07:30 to be there for the garden opening at 08:00 and this was an inspired move. Not only did we arrive before 08:00 but we were in the garden by then and for the first 90 minutes or so it was relatively quiet.
As you can see from the photos the garden was stunning and the LLW was in her element. We spent just over three hours there and walked the whole garden but by the time we were ready to leave it was absolutely heaving with visitors.
We were concerned about exiting the car park, which by now was overflowing, but Dutch organisation meant that a very efficient one way system allowed us out in no time.
Our plan was to head east through Lisse and thereby avoid all of the roads closed for the parade. This proved successful and whilst the traffic in the other direction was horrendous, we made steady progress to our destination of Buitenkaag where we planned a cycle ride along canals and meres. This was lovely and whilst we were slightly disappointed that the greatly anticipated Fietspont (bicycle ferry) was not in operation until May, we had a great ride although the LLW did complain that the 15 miles we had covered was longer than she had expected.
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