Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
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You do realise the whole of the Zaanse Schans is just a Tourist trap? The windmils were transported and re-build there in the 60-70's to preserve and act like a museum.
There are sooo many windmills in Netherlands, why not just visit a "real" working one? I guess the Zaanse Schans does make for good pictures if you can escape the 2 million tourists that visit there a year.
All the stores are tourist stores, and there is nothing local about the "local Dutch cheese shop". A real Dutch cheese store does not only have the plastic wrapped small cheeses.
And no-one would buy "cow cheese" what even is that? Most of our cheeses are from cow milk, but they would be labeled as jong, belegen, oud, boeren kaas etc. etc.