Thursday 13th April 2023
Kuekenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe is one of the worlds largest flower gardens. According to its official website Kuekenhof Park covers an area of 32 hectares and approximately 7 million flower bulbs are planted in the gardens annually. There are a variety of 800 different tulips plus all the other type of spring flowers, it is only open from mid March until mid May.
It was a cold blustery day today and we had to wrap up warm, have to keep reminding myself it’s still only April. We had pre booked the entrance and parking so we were very impressed by the organisation and friendliness of staff guiding us to parking and swiftly into the park.
It is difficult without spending hours avoiding happy snappers to take photographs that do justice to what you see, it was however a delight to stand and stare at the displays. The wind dispersed some of the stronger scent such as hyacinths which normally set my hay fever off however it didn’t totally disperse the whiff of cannabis. Not only were there the outdoor gardens but also pavilions with extra displays, one with orchids, one with daffodils and a large one with a huge range of tulips.
Layla was allowed to accompany us everywhere except into two pavilions and she as always drew admiring glance and comments with people stopping to stroke her, she wasn’t too impressed.
As you can imagine we took many photos between us too many to add here.
From Keukenhof we drove north to tonight’s stopover in the grounds of a sports park in Alkmaar.
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