17/06/2016 Flowers, flowers everywhere......... after arriving in Amsterdam, we made for the world renowned flower market & auction rooms........flabbergasted would be an understatement. Better decribed as immense, amazing and mind-boggling. Every conceivable variety, colour and length as far as the eye could see. Staff whizzing about on one man stand up segway looking vehicles, weaving in and out like a multi lane freeway, few hand signals here and there, collecting their computerised orders & stacking them collectively on the trolley in tow, to be consolidated, containerised and delivered to clients around rhe world. Sophisticated, polished & a spectacle (as only the Dutch can do) to watch, almost a ballet in operation. Well, as one would have it, the morning the 4 of us started on our ride North to Hrtsals/Denmark, it clouded over, grey & gloomy
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