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The windmill is synonymous with our struggle against the water. About half of our country is below sealevel and the water has to be milled into the sea in order to keep our feet dry. In the old days it was done with windmills. And there are still some windmills doing this job, for example the 4 windmills in Aarlanderveen.
But most of the milling today is done by electric or diesel mills.
In the picture an electric mill. It mills dry the Vierambachtpolder near Alphen a/d Rijn.
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Sometimes shops sell stamps with the postcards, but not always the stamps for overseas mail. In that case you have to get them at a postoffice. And be warned! we dutch we want your money, so stamps are often sold in booklets only. For postcards or letters to addresses in Netherlands you need a 0.39 stamp (sold per 10), in europe stamps are 0.69 and outside europe it costs 0.85 Euro (sold per 5).
You write your cards, put a stamp on it. Then you find a postbox. They are red and have two openings. The left one says:overige postcodes. It is for all mail outside the area. The right one has numbers. For instance: postcodes van 2200-2800. Adresses in the Netherlands will have 4 digits and two letters in the postal code (in front of the city). We have 2435WX. So our postal code is between 2200 and 2800 and goes in the right one in this example.
But if you are that close, you can drop by and say hello !! You are welcome.
Most postboxes are emptied at 17:00 on sunday through friday. Some, in very desolated places, when the mailmen delivers mail in the area.
The color of the postboxes is slowly changing from red to orange, due to a new housestyle of the Post Office. Leave a Comment
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My friend and I were shocked to find out that at 8pm on a Thursday night, we couldn't find a table anywhere! We must have walked into 4 or 5 restaurants, and finally found a table at 9:30pm, by which time we were starving and very grouchy (this was in April, I can only imagine what it must be like in July).
Moral of the story: call the restaurant to make a dinner reservation the day before or in the morning. Leave a Comment
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Since 2006 mail services are provided by TNT.
The house clour tranformed from red into orange.
If you send mail abroad enter it in the mailbox section with: "OVERIGE POSTCODES" (remaining ZIP codes).
Dutch Postcode information
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 LEIDEN by eden_teuling
THE PILGRIMS, refugees from religious intolerance in ENGLAND, emigrated to the tolerant HAVEN of THE NETHERLANDS in 1609.....
After some 12 years in LEIDEN, HOLLAND, fearing the loss of their English traditions as their children were growing up DUTCH and with the threat of renewed war between the Dutch and the Spanish, the little congregation made the momentous decision to emigrate yet again in 1620.....
In September of the year 1621, after a perilous sea voyage and severe first winter at Plymouth harbour at the mouth of the HUDSON RIVER (near the northern boundary of the Virginia colony), the PILGRIMS celebrated and gave THANKS, with a traditional English harvest feast.
Today, the American THANKSGIVINGS DAY is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November each year........
for more info: www.plimoth.org/Library/pilgrim.htm Leave a Comment
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