Netherlands 
Photos by Hetty
29 June 2024 – A day trip by train from Gouda
Leiden is the birth place of Rembrandt. It has a mound with a motte castle and botanical gardens founded in 1590 at the oldest university in the Netherlands. There is a moat around the historic centre, canals and grand merchants’ houses.
Leiden Google map
Left – Molen de Valk – a flour mill that is a museum. Right – A city gate -1619
Postmill De Put – a flour mill from the 1600s, reconstructed in 1987
Young Rembrandt – born in 1606 in Leiden
Hortus Botanicus – botanical gardens founded in 1590 at the university
beehives
The moat around the historic centre and the observatory
Setting up a stage on the canal
Left – Pieterskerk dates from 1390. Right – City hall
De Burcht was the castle of Leiden – a keep on a motte in the 11th century – and a view
Museum of science and medicine
Lakenhal was the centre of Leiden’s textile industry, now a museum
A typewriter in a barrel and “Sit here”
