The second day of our stay in Holland

The second day-Sunday-13 March

The weather was perfect( sunny without the strong wind) for a trekking tour and visit the National Park “Drentsche Aa”, which is situated in Assen.

 

The whole group of Polish, Turkish, Dutch and German teachers left the Hotel de Jange and went on a tour at 11 o’clock a.m. and came back at around 6.00 o’clock in the evening.

 

 

The first part of the tour led to the sheep farm where we saw sheep, rams and little lambs. They were many children, who were playing with the lambs.

 

There were some exhibitions in the nearby buildings where we could see different kinds of woolen products like: socks, scarves, toys, gloves and sweaters.

After visiting the farm  Dutch teachers: Willem Borghuis and Ellen, gave us a pedometers for  counting our steps during our tour of the park. We were walking, rather marching along the paths in the fields and forests admiring the Dutch countryside. We could see farm houses whose roofs were made of straws and beautiful horses in the fields.

 

 

 

 

 

                          There were some big stones, which come from the ancient times in the park.

 

                                      We stopped in front of the windmill, which was in the park as well.

At the end of our tour we checked our pedometers and they indicated that we made more than 10000 steps. That’s why we deserved a good lunch, which was given us in the nearby restaurant and we tried typical Dutch meals. While we were waiting for the lunch we were talking about educational systems in our countries.

We could feel and see:

-fresh and clean air,

-clean paths in the forests,

-flat fields everywhere,

-a lot farm buildings changed into houses,

-no dark smoke from the chimneys,

-some cows, horses,sheep and storks in the fields.