{"id":31433,"date":"2016-01-28T22:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/day-trip-the-zaanse-schans-the-netherlands-at-its-most-beautiful\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T23:58:00","slug":"day-trip-the-zaanse-schans-the-netherlands-at-its-most-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/day-trip-the-zaanse-schans-the-netherlands-at-its-most-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip | The Zaanse Schans: traditional Netherlands and windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"

There we are. On the couch at my parents’ house. We spent four days in the Netherlands<\/a><\/strong>: what are we going to do? Brother and sister-in-law have to be somewhere near Zaandam that afternoon. So why not go to the Zaanse Schans? Thus, it is suggested. Well, the Zaanse Schans. Never been there before. When I think of the Zaanse Schans, I always think of millions of Japanese with a few windmills in the background. Would that really be the case? Now I’m curious, though. So we split into two cars and drive north in an hour. Once parked (9 euros!) and got out, we walk in the cold with sunshine towards the Zaanse Schans. The windmills loom. An image suddenly very different from the one in my mind. It reminds me of old pictures of Holland, skating on wooden slats, history. Without Japanese. I stop abruptly and behold with pride this extraordinary scene: this is love at first sight.<\/p>\n\n\t\t