"Willem Van der Voort" schreef in
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O my God...... Indeed it is very colorful, I believe the Dutch made the
green paint from it. They paint theyr wooden houses green in the old days,
you can still see them in Holland, specially at the Zaanse Schans, a
industrial area with more than thousand windmills to power the machines in
those days.
I've been their Wilem and its very interesting, however I never heard we
were making green paint out of that green stuff.
I want to know so I'll try to Google on it;-)
The Zaanse Schans is a delightful old hamlet on the banks of the river
Zaan
with characteristic green wooden houses, charming styalised gardens, small
hump-backed bridges, tradesmen's workshops, historic windmills and
engaging
little shops. This enchanting hamlet gives an excellent impression of how
a
typical Zaanse village must have looked like in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Apart from the cluster of windmills and houses there
are also several museums, restaurants and a visitors' centre to be found
as
well as the possibility of taking a boat trip on the river. The Zaanse
Schans has become one of the top tourist destinations in the Netherlands.
Indeed we have a small country, but very special;-)
--
Groeten
Bouler (The Netherlands)