Utrecht & Gouda

My apologies, this post and the following ones are a little overdue... Patience to upload the pictures and discuss them has not been present in my spirit. But, here it goes.

So during Easter break, a group of us decided to take the opportunity to get to know the country we are living in a little better. There were other groups that decided to go visit other countries, but I think those can wait for later... better seize the chance to get to know more that the Dutch people themselves :) 

First stop: Utrecht

This city was described by my teacher of Dutch as Amsterdam but with less tourists :P

 bike parking at the station

 the group but me (I'm the one taking the picture)

First time I saw one of these! A 3 person bike! Very cool...

Initially we were going to spend the whole day in Utrecht, however, since we carefully planned everything there was still enough time to hop on the 20 minute train to Gouda and take a look around the city of cheese :P

Second stop: Gouda

Curiously enough, we found out that Erasmus also spent some time in Gouda, which is why in a little part of the city you can find a bridge with his name and his statue. Of course we took a picture there!

Another windmill! Actually it was 2 :) Not bad... Living in the land of windmills and having pictures of a total of 3 windmills. I have seen more, of course, on the train rides...

@ city hall

The old city hall, built around 1450, is one of the oldest Gothic city halls in the Netherlands.

All in all (which basically means, despite the weather) it was a well spent day :) The company was good and even though it was pretty tiresome to walk around in 2 cities, we managed to come back in one piece.