The day started with thick fog all over the polder where the farm is located. Pretty magical stuff, but hard to capture in the camera.
The fog burned off quickly and caused no problems in getting to our first destination for the day: Utrecht.
It was market day in Utrecht.
The main focus in Utrecht is a visit to the places associated with my Mom’s father and mother. My grandfather worked in a bakery located at Oudegracht 319. These days it is an apartment building.
There is more info on this building in a post from our last visit in 2015: Huis Grijsesteijn
The church that you see in the background is the Geertekerk (St. Gertrude’s church). Originally build around 1255, then torn down and built within the city walls, it started as a Roman Catholic parish church. When the Protestant Reformation took hold in the Netherlands in 1578, Catholicism was outlawed and the building was given to the Reformed Church which used it until the 1930s. It then lay dormant and deteriorating until 1954 when it was purchased by the Remonstrant church and restored. This is the church where my grandfather and grandmother met, although they did not marry until they came to the U.S.
No visit to Utrecht would be complete without stopping in at Modelaine, the local knitting shop.
Lunch was a Hemaworst Broodje, enjoyed on the lamp-post bench in front of the store. Lekker!
Here are a few more shots from around Utrecht today. It was a beautiful day and everyone seemed to be out and enjoying it.
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