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KEUKENHOF: The Tulip Garden of the World

THIS POSTING IS ANOTHER OF MY EXPERIMENTAL FORAYS NECESSITATED BY MY TRAVEL SCHEDULE.  Here is my problem. A Tauck Tulip cruise on the Espirit is filled with too many things to do that I can't find time to do my blog. Today, I will merely provide a bunch of photos, and later come back to make some sense of my day, Keukenhof in Lisse, Netherlands, is the  ultimate tulip garden of the world, and among the most fabulous of any floral park anywhere.  I have rarely been so impressed about anything of this nature in my life.  Covers 79 acres with 7 million flower bulbs. Keukenhof is only open to the general public for 8 weeks during the tulip season, which is mid-March to mid-May.  Mid-April is best, and yes, it was incredible. One comparison is that the Rijksmuseum, which I visited yesterday, receives an average of 8,000 visitors/day.  Keukenhof does 26,000/day. Created by Adriaen Block, governor of the Dutch East India Company in 1641. Restructured in 1857. However, the park, as it now