when you're on vacation does it really matter what day it is?
It doesn't really! Especially if everything is covered.
Vacations have this special effect that makes us realize how arbitrary the concept of time is.
Thank you for such a detailed tour; such beautiful and high-quality pictures (which make me feel embarrassed at the kind of pictures I have had to post. Some day I'll get a good phone with a good camera).
Both, the images from the urban areas and the rural ones are mesmerizing.
I have always admired European arquitecture; their sense of harmony, beauty and order.
I remember as i was growing up people debated our third-world status and blamed the lack of development to first world exploitation, bla, bla, bla.
I think that latinamerica in particular has had the chance (politically and economically) to develop their version of progress and prosperity and opted for corruption, chaos, ugliness, and mediocrity.
When I see images, like the ones you've posted, I feel so frustrated at the prospects of our culture never achieving that state of development.
I wonder, though, if people in the Netherlands, in this particular case, feel that they live in the place we perceive from here.
On a different note, I had read some time ago about
The New York Harlem neighborhood got its name after the Dutch city of Haarlem
Studying African American literature I ran into interesting facts like this. Allegedly, the place became a "negro" neighborhood after whites started to move out when they noticed the first blacks moved in.
I loved the picture of the De Adriaan Windmill. Such a neat structure!