Many of the towns and villages here still retain their traditional buildings. The government seems able to manage urban progress and yet retaining its heritage. Although these buildings have now been tranformed into shops and other businesses, they still retain the same century old traditional character. In fact most of the buildings were built as far back as the 17th Century. And what really striking is that most of these buildings are in miniature. And it's not surprising to find stairways in these buildings to be quite narrow. Squeezed alongside canals, these traditonal buildings really make a spectacular Dutch landscape.
It's a very busy sports weekend. Everyone's eyes are on the Ryder cup. This year may not going to be the fourth time win in a row for Europe. Unless the Americans are back to their self destructing mode again. Talking about the Americans, yesterday the US government announced a 700 billon dollars bail-out to rescue the current credit and mortgage crisis in the states. What an amazing amount - really mind boggling. Also just before the weekend saw a massive jump in the stock market up 8 to 9%, the biggest jump ever in a single day, helps to boost back confidence. Hope everything is back to normal now.
Many of the towns and villages here still retain their traditional buildings. The government seems able to manage urban progress and yet retaining its heritage. Although these buildings have now been tranformed into shops and other businesses, they still retain the same century old traditional character. In fact most of the buildings were built as far back as the 17th Century. And what really striking is that most of these buildings are in miniature. And it's not surprising to find stairways in these buildings to be quite narrow. Squeezed alongside canals, these traditonal buildings really make a spectacular Dutch landscape.
It's a very busy sports weekend. Everyone's eyes are on the Ryder cup. This year may not going to be the fourth time win in a row for Europe. Unless the Americans are back to their self destructing mode again. Talking about the Americans, yesterday the US government announced a 700 billon dollars bail-out to rescue the current credit and mortgage crisis in the states. What an amazing amount - really mind boggling. Also just before the weekend saw a massive jump in the stock market up 8 to 9%, the biggest jump ever in a single day, helps to boost back confidence. Hope everything is back to normal now.
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