No Tulips

For one week of our trip, we did a bike and barge tour in Southern Holland. On one of the days we guided ourselves, we went through the area that is famous for growing tulips. Seeing as we were there in June, the tulips were already spent and we did not see rows and rows of beautiful tulips. We didn't mind.

However, around the towns and houses, other flowers were in bloom. All through our trip, I noticed how beautiful the hydrangeas were there. Beautiful variations of colors would be in the same row with huge balls of flowers weighing the plant down. I remembered toward the end of the trip (and when we were on our own) to finally take pictures. And these weren't even the best ones we saw. The last picture was of bunches they were selling in a market in one of the small towns.




Frank has put some of the many pictures we took on our website. You can read his synopsis of our trip on the main page and then look in the photo gallery under trip photos, 2007, Europe to see the pictures. His selection may or may not include what I put here on the blog.