First weekend trip to Leiden

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Today Dale and I took a quick 15 min trip north (towards Amsterdam) and visited the city of Leiden. The weather was total crap...about 45 and raining, but what the heck, it's my first weekend and I gotta make the most of it right?

We picked up a walking tour map and with Dale as navigator, I took up to providing tour-guide style info about each of the attractions we hit. Along the way in we saw our first windmill, which we later found was the town windmill museum. Pics of the De Valk windmill and other Leiden stuff is here: Brian's Netherlands trip photos

Along the way we saw the first university established in the Netherlands, visited the area where Rembrandt was born, and also saw the church of St. Peter. Because of the church of St. Peter, the city of Leiden has the keys to the gates of heaven incorporated into their city crest, so keys are everywhere.

The rain sucked, but i picked up a rain jacket, which will definitely come in handy while I'm here!

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