My Trip's Last Country

Arriving in the Netherlands (the final country of my trip) meant psyching up for another day of biking with Uncle Tim and Aunt Noreen.  We spent the day in Hoge Veluwe National Park, biking through varying environments -- grasslands, deserts, forests, etc. -- and visiting the Kroller-Muller Museum (my apologies that both names are missing an umlaut), a great modern art museum that has the second largest collection of Van Gogh's in the world (along with a bunch of other amazing works by Mondrian, Picasso and the likes).

The sculpture garden outside of the museum was interesting; it mostly included works that made no sense to me, even after reading the little sign in the grass nearby.  However the coolest was one that you were supposed to climb up onto and be part of the sculpture.

Van Gogh's famous 'Cafe
Terrace at Night'

After about ten minutes of wandering through the sculpture garden, Aunt Noreen and I had lost Uncle Tim, who moved at a much slower pace.  With some extra time, I introduced Aunt Noreen to my favorite museum game: which would you put in your house?  A fabulous way to not only see the art, but to really gauge your reaction to the pieces by deciding which you would want to keep or could best tolerate, depending on the room's collection.  We had a great time making (and debating) our choices.

We stopped into the other museum in the park, a small science museum focused on ecology and geology, but only for a short visit.  The rest of the day was spent on our bikes, upon which we covered roughly 20 miles, all of which were accident-free!

Free white bikes to borrow while in the park!

Happy travelers!