A day at the beach – a beautiful day at the beach.
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- Ready to go to the Beach at Parnassia
A day at the beach – a beautiful day at the beach. We rode our bikes out here, through the sand dunes (and it was very very hot), past all the animals which roam freely in the Kennemer Duinen (Dunes). On the way into the park we stopped at a rather quaint oldfashioned Kiosk and had an icecream each. Then we continued to ride through the park. We met the horses by the path. I love horses so had go and talk to them. One of the little girls there was a little freaked out by them, which unsettled the horses and they just meandered away.
The Scottish Highland Cattle, were not really very big but those horns were huge. We stopped by the bike path and Best Beloved took the photos of those in and around the lake. The one in the photo all by itself, came up to the bike path, and started pawing the ground behind Best Beloved, who just kept on taking photos. He hadn’t seen it of course. Me, I said, Think it is time we left, yeah yeah he said, I’ll just take a few more.
I picked my bike up as a protector, beast kept pawing the ground and started shaking his head from side to side, boy those horns looked menacing – less than 10 feet away. I said I’m going now, Best Beloved said in a minute. He must have suddenly sensed the minor discomfort I was experiencing – and he turned around, snapped the picture, got on his bike and went – in a very fluid motion. With me – following as fast as my short legs could cycle.
When we arrived at the beach we sat behind the glass wall protecting us from wind and sand and we enjoyed the smell of the sea, sand and sun and a cold beer with lunch, with seagulls sqwarking overhead.
Only the very hardy were on the beach and others were back behind the glass wall. The Dutch are very hardy. IF you click on the picture of the beach a couple of times to enlarge it – you will see there are plenty of people, no one is in the water -that my eyes can see.
We rode back on the bike path by the road and not through the park again as it is quite a ride for an oldy – but we (I) will get better with time.
Don’t we all improve with age?
It was a glorious day
The Kennemer Duinen (Dunes) were not always a great day out.
This link is to a report on the assassination of Dutch Nationals – resistance fighters during WWII
Excerpt taken from the Haarlems daily newspaper 4 May 1993.
reporter – Willemien Spook
Where the May blossom now starts to come into flower, and the sea breeze shaves the top of the marram grass, hundreds of Dutch nationals, whom for whatever reason upset the oppressor, – were assassinated, murdered or dumped sometimes ten at once, sometimes just a single person -.
They were found in early May of 1945, 422 individuals. Most of them had found their end in the last few weeks, days and months, before the liberation.
Tags: beach, Bike Rides, Kennemer Duinen, Kennemer Dunes, Parnassia, Scottish Highland Cattle
