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KEUKENHOF AND THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

I'm now fully recovered after a ten-hour sleep, partly because I opted out of the Windmills of Lomderdijk tour because I already saw an ancient windmill at Keukenhof.  Yesterday was just too much for an old man.  But let me first quickly review our visit to Keukenhof Gardens, then move on to our Maritshuis Museum exhibition and gala dinner next door at a high end men's club. I left you yesterday with a hodgepodge of photos from Keukenhof.  Today, a more organized and limited summary. The motor coach took us an hour to get to the gardens.  I use motor coach because these buses we're the latest state-of-art vehicles.  Really posh. A couple of shots as we approached Keukenhof. Is there such a thing as a BLACK tulip?  The answer is that the  Paul Sherer tulips can get very dark, but are not quite black. Similarly,  BLUE tulips do not exist .   Nor blue or aqua orchids , Well  this article hints that you can find blue orchids , though they are rare.  Those that you see are dyed