Kinderdijk in Holland was about an hour away from Antwerp - close enough for a day trip. It is one of the few places in the world where you can still take a picture of windmills while inside another windmill:
They were beautiful - check out the videos below:
Who would've thought back then that structures originally built for flood control would be preserved and become tourist spots later on.
p.s. even though it was very tempting, I purposely omitted any mention of Don Quixote de la Mancha, or the song Windmills of my Mind (by Grady Tate). This is the reason why this post on windmills is long on pictures and video, and short on text and stories.
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