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Kinderdijk in Light and Lens
A short walk, a long history, and a camera full of windmills
A few months after we arrived in the Netherlands in December 1994, my mother took us to Kinderdijk.
Kinderdijk is a town in South Holland, about 15 km east of Rotterdam, and a bike ride of about 35 minutes from where I live. This town is world famous for their windmills, and it’s still on my bucket list to go there on my bike, and of course have my camera with me.
Kinderdijk is situated in the Alblasserwaard polder at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands. The windmills of Kinderdijk are one of the best-known Dutch tourist sites. They have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. — Wikipedia
I can count the number of times I’ve been to Kinderdijk in the just over 30 years I’ve lived in this country on my two hands, and I will still have some fingers left. A few years ago, in 2019, my husband and I went to Kinderdijk, taking our cameras with us.
