Flower Auction Room

FLOWERS, FLOWERS & MORE FLOWERS

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May 25th 2014
I mentioned in the previous blog that we are in the middle of the flower growing area but we didn’t realise what a big business it is. From Braasemeer we went to the next, and even bigger, meer, Westeinder Plassen, an amazing area of water along the West side of which is the river that is the mast up route to Amsterdam, and then, looking at the chart there is an unfathomable area of straight lin ... read more

Europe » Netherlands » North Holland » Schiphol-Rijk

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more