Hi Jean,
This is a great Idea and I will contribute on my return from holiday.

Should be interesting. We have three more of our grandchildren for a fortnight and have spent the first week together near Skegness in the windmill district of the Lincolnshire Wold.

Today, most of them visited Bury's famous Market, while I was left behind to visit our local medical centre. Unfortunately, the letter from the Skegness doctor had not yet arrived, so I may have to go again.

Mine's a little outdated, but was awesome...

In late May/early June I went with a friend to Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Geneva, and Amsterdam. I was gone for 3 weeks and it flew by - trip of a lifetime!

Out of those I'd only been to Amsterdam before (and many other places in the Netherlands; lived there briefly), so it was really cool to visit all those places for the first time.

Hi! there esoteric. Did you see the Rijksmuseum? The "Nightwatch" occupies a whole wall and the burghers refused to pay for it because they were not all in the foreground!

Hi! Jean. Yes, that is the famous market. The steam railway station is nearby. The railway is one of the few remaining steam systems in the country and is run by amateur sparetimers.

It is the right Skegness also. It was here that William Butlin built one of his first Holiday camps. A couple of years later, war broke out and the camp became H.M.S. Royal Arthur, a training camp for sailors. A similar camp near Liverpool became H.M.S. Nelson and William became Sir Billy Butlin.

Hey haldav,

Yes I went to the Rijksmuseum when I was in the Netherlands 4 years ago - it was pretty cool; I do remember that painting - it was huge!

Baron Samedi:

I love the Netherlands - one of my favorite places in the world. I lived in Leiden for a few months while I was studying abroad in undergrad. The Dutch were always very kind