Netherlands Photos by Hetty
3rd July 2024 – Last day of the holiday.
Utrecht’s historic centre is surrounded by a 900 year-old moat that has been restored.
The station has a bike park for 12,500 bikes.
Our only wet morning and a visit to the Museum Speelklok – playing clocks – in an old church with a 12th century tower. It has automated church bells, musical clocks, music boxes, barrel organs, street organs, fairground organs and shows you how they work. We spent a very enjoyable 3 hours there and it had stopped raining when we came out.
Musical coat hooks, a musical chair (when you sit on it) and musical dolls
The canals here have cellars opening onto the canals with a street above
Huis Zoudenbalch built in 1467 has been an orphanage, a school, a house, then rebuilt after a fire in 1903
WW2 Resistance Monument in Cathedral Square
The 600 year old Dom Tower was once connected to the church by a cathedral that was destroyed in a freak storm in 1674
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