For a wonderful week I was in the Netherlands. And it was sunny!! I had the chance to bath in culture!
E.g. we visited Voorlinden (Wassenaar, near Den Haag) - the museum which always entchants me. The modern building is surrounded by a beautiful garden designed by the internationally famous garden architect Piet Oudolf. Three seasons in the year this garden is blooming!
I think it is a sympathic trait that most Dutch people are very fond of eating and conviviality - "gezelligheid" - and they not only call delicious eating "lekker!" (which means "yummy!") but people, situations, things or conversations are "lekker!" too.
Thus we visited the Landhuis Restaurant first, a pure English brick manor house (1912), part of the Voorlinden country estate of 40 hectare. R.J.Johnston built it together with the geometric garden.
We got a very refined version of the Dutch Apple tart - an ignoramus might say: "very manageable" - it was the first time that I met this tiny sister of my beloved common Nederlandse apple tart (which is so satisfying, especially topped with cream on the huge cake slice). The sophisticate and very delicious petiteness is only topped by its price.
The museum Voorlinden was opened in September 2016 by King Wilhelm Alexander.
Come on, stroll with me the few steps from the manor house to the fascinating modern architecture of light!
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