{"id":2906,"date":"2015-05-04T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2015-05-04T23:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:10:20","slug":"historical-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=2906","title":{"rendered":"Historical Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_201505041717\"<\/a>\"IMG_2015050455293\"<\/a>Kings Day is a national holiday celebrating the House of Orange’s success at beating back the Spanish Catholics during the Middle Ages and creating the base of the diverse and accepting country we have been visiting. On this day a very unusual opportunity is presented to Dutch children. They can take their unwanted toys and set up on the street and sell them to passersby (guaranteed to be other kids and parents) and the sellers, we are told, are allowed to spend their new euros as they wish. We stumbled into these kids on Kings Day in the city of Arnhem, near the national park.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2015050412875\"<\/a>As King’s Day found us wandering by car, we, Dave and Sheila decided to skip the huge afternoon rock concert which it seemed everyone else was streaming toward and put our museum cards (a worthwhile investment if you are going to more than three or four Dutch museums) to the test. Nearby Arnhem is a cultural history park showing country life and technology in the 15-16th century. We decided that we might have been pretty good citizens of those days what with Val’s “Swiss army knife” skills applied to keeping huge wind-powered wooden toothed wheels turning to grind flour, saw logs and pump water.\u00a0 Leslie could appear often from the bakery with sweet and savory delights delivered on classic blue and white Delft pottery just as she does these modern days. We wonder about wearing those wooden shoes, however, because\u00a0 we do really like wearing our comfortable and versatile Keens!<\/p>\n