Wednesday, July 15

Before Kees and Joke left, they showed us a Tea Garden in Eemnes and suggested we go over there for lunch some day. We have been thinking about going, and even though it was off and on rain today, we decided today was the day.

Even in the wet, its a beautiful setting.

We enter and realize it is self-service. We read the menu and then order at the counter. 

The menu is a reasonable size and it includes lots of sweets, like these.

I order what I think is a hamburger and Linda orders a tunafish sandwich. When I order it, the girl tells me its hard to explain what its like and I say its ok. Well, once it arrives, I see what her problem is: its tartar. 

Oh well - I decide to try it and its ok. We share our sandwich - half and half. Just fine.


The view from our table.

After we eat, we walk around the grounds.

Bathrooms are always interesting.










This sophisticated vehicle is a Rosengarte

This little red gem is an old Triumph. It was in really good condition. I wonder if it ran.

The black one in the rear is a B-Ford.

Don't know any years.

On the way out, Linda spotted a chicken pen with 3 roosters guarding the hens from the outside. One of these birds had a fancy headdress, but its hard to see. What was this all about?

The skies start to clear a little and we head back to Soest. Here is what that looks like.

A mid-afternoon confab.

This is something like a silo.  When it is full, the roof is all the way to the top of the posts.

Beautiful gardens are very important to the Dutch.  They are everywhere!

Bill thought this house looked like a cottage in the middle ages.  

The Soestijk palace where no one lives now but its the reason the train station is named Soestijk.

This is what you were supposed to see yesterday at the end of the column of trees.

The very popular ice cream store as you enter Soest.

Back at the house and Joke's lovely garden.