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And here are some of the scenes from the museums:
At the Open-Air museum, a statue of a woman cleaning a baby's butt…
and then, below, a collection of gapers, which means "gapers" or "yawners". What they're actually doing is sticking out their tongue to the health professional, some of them receiving pills on their tongues...It's what they had in those days in those places instead of barbershop poles. Symbol of health care.
The Open-Air museum is one of these places where you can see folks dressed up in the old Dutch clothes, in old Dutch buildings, showing the way the old sea-side communities used to go about business. What impressed me most was the fresh smoked kippers, smoked in a steel drum right there and served fresh, three guilders apiece. I've had them from cans before, but freshly smoked -- absolutely fantastic! Below that, a tobacco ad. On the trip back, we passed over the great Afsluitdijk. Here's a statue dedicated to those who built it -- a guy lifting a stone. Like the common bronze pig's nose, this fellow also had a shiny spot, but on the other end.
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