Thursday, March 27, 2014

March 27. Arnhem


PHOTOS:  Audrey Hepburn's family home near Arnhem, (large white house); two brick houses on the way to Peleis Het Loo near Appeldoorn.  Fourth photo taken at entrance to the Palace of the royal family, fifth is of part of the gardens at the palace.

Today we were tied up in Arnhem, made famous Operation Market Garden in WW2, and by the movie A Bridge Too Far.  It seems to be a quiet town on the lower Rhine (Rijn) which appears to be a canal here.  The canal is busy with river longships like ours, as well as commercial barges.  We passed through several locks on our overnight sail.

This am we did a tour of the old palace of the Dutch royal family, an imposing building beautifully furnished - and with magnificent gardens which are being renovated/restored.  On the way we passed Audrey Hepburn's family home and other elegant homes, as well as a Dutch/Canadian monument commemorating the Canadian liberation of this area of Holland in WW2.  The afternoon found us wandering Arnhem, with a special stop in a to-die-for kitchen/housewares store that had a million interesting things.  This evening a folklore show is planned for our evening entertainment after dinner.  Please check out my continuation of today's photo record to follow.

Sympathies to those of you in NB who may not even have hydro back on yet!  It sounds dreadful!

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