Our second last tour drive day – Hoorah!! Today was one of the most uneventful drive days we have had. The day pretty much just involved sitting on a bus with two 15 minute service stops and a half an hour lunch break.
Before reaching Amsterdam we called in at a place which produced their own cheese and wooden clogs. As we drove into the showroom I think I saw a slight tear in Jess’ eyes as there, in a wintering shed, were some very cute Friesian cows and calves. The husband and wife combo split and gave us different presentations. The wife’s blurb on cheese was brief and informative whereas the crazy-dutch husband complete with lipstick marks on his cheek gave us a taste of the dutch humour and an interesting explanation and demonstration of the construction of clogs.
Factoid: There are five shoemakers that make clogs by hand, these take can take up to five hours to shape with hand tools, with the use of machinery this process is now done in 3 minutes.
Yellow for working, red for dancing, the fancypants painted for the tourists and the pretty carved ones for weddings, (Sorry Esther but we could fit in a red pair in for Peter).
For tea we were charmed by a young dutch gentleman in an Irish bar who Kath was fairly sure had an Irish accent. Kath has now decided that Dutch men can be added to the list of hot accents.
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