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GOUDA STROOPWAFEL BAKERY - Gouda
GOUDA STROOPWAFEL BAKERY
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  • By ATLC on April 19, 2003
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  • GOUDA TOWN HALL - Gouda
    GOUDA TOWN HALL
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    Count Floris V.
    The scene depicts the fact that he gave Gouda city rights in 1272 allowing it to make its own judicial system.

    The picture may be of insufficient quality to show the actual Count Floris V figure in the door. If you enlarge it you may see it better. If you can't see it at all, please let me know so I can improve the image.

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  • Updated By ATLC on April 18, 2003
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  • GOUDA STROOPWAFEL MACHINE - Gouda
    GOUDA STROOPWAFEL MACHINE
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    Everything goes automatically, apart from filling up the dough resevoir.
    Four pieces of dough per baking sheet are dropped on a conveyor belt into an oven. Then the outer edge is cut off to make every stroopwafel the same size. It is then cut and moved onto a rotating disk where a whisp of air between the layers loosens them. Then the top half is lifted off through a suction pipe, syrup is piped on and the top layer replaced.
    All this automatically within a few minutes each.

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    Bell ringing
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  • By ATLC on April 19, 2003
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  • GOUDA TOWN HALL - Gouda
    GOUDA TOWN HALL
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    On the side of the town hall you will find this on its exterior wall.

    Note the clock, the bells below it (rung electrically) and the scene below, figures on either side of a red/white door.

    Something nice goes on just a 2 minutes after each whole hour...
    (see next tip)

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    Door is closed and...
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  • By ATLC on April 19, 2003
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  • GOUDA TOWN HALL - Gouda
    GOUDA TOWN HALL
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    For the most part of each hour the figures (a knight, some citizens, on either side of the door stand still. The door is closed......
    but when the bells start ringing the figures move and turn towards the door which opens...
    (see next tip)

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    Bell ringing (2)
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  • By ATLC on April 19, 2003
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  • GOUDA TOWN HALL - Gouda
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    If you're walking along the Markt square and see a group of people, children included, concentratingly lookin up at the town hall wall, then stop too and wait.... until two minutes past the whole hour....
    (see next tip)

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    Filming in the oven
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  • By ATLC on April 18, 2003
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  • GOUDA STROOPWAFEL OVEN - Gouda
    GOUDA STROOPWAFEL OVEN
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    Quite a hot place, that bakery. Which had the cameraman break out in a sweat when filming inside the oven.

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    Let's bake some treacle waffles (Stroopwafels)
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  • Updated By ATLC on May 18, 2007
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  • GOUDA STROOPWAFEL MACHINE - Gouda
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    This and following tips are about the traditional Dutch cookie called stroopwafel.

    Tearoom Van den Berg
    Lange Groenendaal 32
    GOUDA
    2801 LT
    Nederland

    Tel: +31 182-529975

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    The stroopwafel baker
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  • By ATLC on April 18, 2003
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  • GOUDA STROOPWAFEL BAKER - Gouda
    GOUDA STROOPWAFEL BAKER
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    told me the machine bakes 2200 waffles an hour. The dough he made this morning was of 48 kilo flour!

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    Canals - in common with the...
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  • By cheekymarieh on September 7, 2002
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    Canals - in common with the rest of the Netherlands there are numerous canals around the city. So much water is a beautiful sight but remember - water can mean floods and mosquitoes.

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    The Shield
  • By Nathalie_B on December 30, 2006
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    by Nathalie_B
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    A side Gouda museum, over a cute bridge that leads into a garden you’ll find the shield (coat of arms) of Gouda. Do not confuse it with the Archers shield, they only look the same but if you look closely you’ll notice the lions face different direction. The same shield can be seen on top of the weigh house (De Waag)
    Not always it looked like it is now, some parts were added and some don’t exist anymore. First there were only two stars they became six only in 15th century. The silver sward in the middle of the shield resembles Jan Van der Goude’s weapon. The thorns were added later. Two climbing lions at some point had a motto written under them: Per Aspera at Astra which means through the thorn to the stars. There are stars above the thorns, but no motto is seen anywhere, which makes us wonder if it was ever added.

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