It was our earl Floris V (1255-1296) who build a cottage in Vogelesang. Nearby the woods between Alkmaar and Assenheim. Earl Floris 5th of Holland builded a hunting house for his Lords and Knights. Round 1600 the build the Country house Vogelesang. The Dutch dunes are located behind the country.
Een gebouw gesticht door Floris V was 't Huys te Vogelesang (1255-1296). Vogelenzang was vroeger een gedeelte van Den Hout, het grote bos dat zich tussen Alkmaar en Sassenheim uitstrekte. Hier bouwde Floris V een jachthuis waar hij met zijn heren en ridders vertoefde om te jagen. Het Huis te Vogelenzang is omstreeks 1600 gebouwd en 200 jaar later in classicistische stijl herbouwd. Het landgoed is 80 hectare groot en bestaat uit oude strandwallen en strandvlakten met historische veenweiden.
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Lage Vuursche is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Baarn, and lies about 5 km west of Soest, in the middle of the forest. Drakestein, the former residence of Queen Beatrix, is situated just east of the village.
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Kinderdijk in the Alblasserwaard, the area where to Kinderdijk belongs, problems with the water household became more and more apparent from the 13th century. To get rid of the excess water in the polders, long canals were dug. These canals are called "weteringen" and you can find them all over Holland. It was decided to build a series of windmills which would pump the water into a reservoir (boezem) until the level of the river had reached a level that pumping the water into the river was possible again. Legend
According to a legend, Kinderdijk thanks it's name to a special event during the flood. A cradle with a child on the waves was kept in balance by a cat and stranded on the slope of a dike. The spot where this happened was named Kinderdijk...
Yellow flowers: Brassica napus, Koolzaad
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....Just you and me :) Do you see my little house?
Isola Bella is a small island near Taormina, Sicily (Italy). The beautiful island (also known as The Pearl of the Ionian Sea) within a small bay on the Ionian Sea was a private property until 1990, when it was bought by the Region of Sicily and became a nature reserve, administrated by the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature. There is a narrow path that often connects the island to the mainland beach. The island has a small and rather rocky beach which is a popular destination for sunbathers.
Come to my island - KC & Sunshine band ...Come to my island, just you and me (Come on down, come on down) Come to my island where we'll be free
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