Windmills, really

By stan. Filed in Family Fun, History, Museum  |  
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Holland was first with wind energy and now the  rest of us are playing catch up. If you want to see some of the original kind, it’s a quick 20 minutes from downtown Amsterdam to Zaanse Schans www.zaanseschans.nl

Windmills were built as mini factories making the products of daily life with free energy. At this outdoor museum, you can still see a half dozen of them making spices, paint, linseed oil and doing wood cutting. There’s an indoor museum, a cheese building, one for wooden shoes and village houses.

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