Kitchen Garden

This is what a tulip bulb looks like. They only grow in cool weather like the spring in Europe right now. Some people did try to grow it back home, but the bulb quickly wilted away unless you put in an air-conditioned glass house!

It was quite interesting to see some Dutch coming out to the flower park in full traditional costume. One family had the entire family members in the attire, very nice indeed. And obviously they quickly became the centre of attraction. Everybody wanted to take photos with them. And this is not easy as the area is swarmed by lots of visitors from overseas…mainly Japanese and Chinese but also Malaysian plus a handful of Bruneian (it’s us) amongst the crowd.

Our youngest taught us something about the background of Keukenhof. He said Keukenhof means kitchen garden. It came about it being nearby to a castle and the folks from the castle collected herbs and hunted the animal there for cooking in the kitchen, hence it’s called the kitchen garden. There you are…we always learn something new everyday.