Travelog Kembara EJ: holiday in amsterdam

Houseboat di Amsterdam

Tak sangka juga di tengah bandar Amsterdam ini, ada pelabuhan yang menempatkan houseboat. Letaknya berhadapan dengan bangunan Nemo. Kitorang sewa bilik di houseboat yang dinamakan 'Holland' ini untuk 2 malam. Mahal ooiii sewanya...

Terdapat lebih kurang 2,500 houseboat di bandar Amsterdam. Houseboat yang kitorang sewa tu terletak di kawasan yang bernama Oosterdox.

Janganlah nak membayangkan keselesaan houseboat di situ besar ye... macam di Kashmir.. hahahaaa.. kerana biliknya, ibarat sekangkang kera, nak buka pintu pun ngam ngam jer, letak sebuah katil double decker je dah penuh bilik tu. Bukak pintu bilik air pun dah kena katil. Nak solat pun sangat susah, tak de space.. asik terantuk kepala dan terkial kaki jer...

Dari deck atas houseboat, buka pintu dan turun tangga ke bawah. Di sebelah kiri ini ialah corridor di hadapan bilik.

Amacam.. sempit kan?

Di sebelah kanan pula, turun tangga sikit, sampai lah ke ruangan rehatnya. Bersusun beberapa buah meja dan kerusi. Ada TV... Di sini jugalah tempat untuk breakfast pagi nanti.

Gambar atas ialah husband & wife, owner houseboat ni.

Dorang ni not that friendly..

lebih-lebih lagi tengok kita ni berhijab..hmm..

Gambar bawah ni pula ialah anak dorang.

Geram tengok rambut anak lelaki dia.. curly curly one... 😉

Breakfast macam-macam hado...

Dapat kawan baru.. japanese

ni rice cooker yang kitorang bawak... heheeee...

Walau pun sempit, alhamdulillah dapat pengalaman stay dalam houseboat di Amsterdam ini...

Anda juga mungkin berminat dengan...

-> Zaanse Schans, Beautiful Windmills Village

-> Volendam Fishing Village

-> Cheese Factory, Volendam

-> Clog Shoes Factory, Volendam

-> Sightseeing Volendam

-> The Beatles Cafe, Volendam

-> Holland Aku Datang

-> Ronda-ronda Amsterdam

Zaanse Schans- A Beautiful Dutch Windmill Village

Zaanse Schans memang sebuah perkampungan windmill yang sangat cantik. Tak jemu memandang sepanjang berjalan di situ.

Waktu ku berbackpack ke sana pada tahun 2015, kitorang naik train, berhenti di station Zaandijk dan lepas tu, sila lah menapak dalam 15-20 minit ke dalam.. tapi tak pe.. cuaca sejuk nyaman... sambil-sambil berjalan tu, banyak view cantik.. bolehlah posing sana, posing sini.. hehee..

Zaanse Schans is a small village on the banks of the Zaan river, complete with tidy green houses, real working windmills, and small topical museums such as the Clock Museum and the first Albert Heijn store.

In the 17th and 18th century there were thousands of windmills along the dykes; sawmills, dye mills, oil mills etc that powered the Dutch economy. The Zaanse Schans village gives you a picture of what it must have been like. Not all the windmills and buildings started out in Zaanse Schans, many of them were moved here from the region as they came under threat from urban development across North Holland.

Dah tiba di windmill besar, boleh masuk ke dalam dan naik sampai tingkat atas tengok view..

The windmills are all working mills, and the perform various functions, including a saw mill, a paint mill (grinding pigments), and oil mill (grinding linseed or peanuts to draw off the oil).

On the ground floor of the oil mill for example, you can see huge grindstones crushing peanuts which were then roasted and pressed so that the oil could be extracted. Both the grindstones and the press are driven by the windmill.

Climbing a narrow ladder to the first floor gives a view of the huge wooden cogs that transform the wind energy down to the grindstone. From this floor small doors lead onto the outside platform where you can watch the sails of the windmill go past. They fly past - really quickly! One full rotation took 16 seconds, this dropped to about 10 seconds as the wind picked up.

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