{"id":6578,"date":"2025-05-01T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:32:42","slug":"keukenhof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6578","title":{"rendered":"Keukenhof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My thing for the day was a visit to Keukenhof, which I knew involved flowers, but not a lot else. I’d sort of assumed it was a garden of some kind, and while that’s correct, it’s not entirely correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip included a bus tour on the way out there, with commentary about the place; In simple terms, it’s a flower festival in a tulip growing area, lasting for 8 weeks, and we were in the last week. Outside of the festival grounds are the tulip fields, but almost all of that long stripes of colour <\/em>thing was gone, because they cut the flowers as part of bulb propagation. You could see the occasional one that was presumably a late bloomer, and in one place a small patch of colour stripes, but most of the rest was green or brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The site is quite large, with a number of pavillions dotted around holding different exhibitions. Also there’s a windmill, which I somehow didn’t take a picture of from the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finding the bus was a bit chaotic. The instructions seemed to be directing me to somewhere a bus couldn’t get to, but it turns out that was directions to the tour company office, where I’d check in, show my e-ticket, then get a paper ticket & be sent to one of the bus station stands to get the bus. The stand was not well organised; It’s possible that there were calls for the 1200 Keukenhof tour going on, but it’s a bus station, so nobody can hear a damn thing. I showed my ticket to someone to confirm I was in the right queue, got told that I wasn’t, and got to the correct place; No idea how I or anyone else was supposed to know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tour commentary was mostly recorded, but the driver did the intro & gave some advice on the site. He also stressed that the departure time was the departure time, and he would not be waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s not much I can say about it, to be honest. There are flowers and gardens, and paths you can wander down, and sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And at times crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And somewhat inflated prices for food & drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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