Kinderdijk

Last week, I visited Kinderdijk, one of UNESCO World Heritage in The Netherlands. Kinderdijk known as the only place in The Netherlands, even in the world, with many windmills (about 19 windmills) exist in one place. They have been well preserved to the present day.

 If you are talking about windmill, your mind will connect you to the Netherlands. Finding windmill in the Netherlands maybe easy, because in every city or on the way using train or car, there is a windmill stands as a symbol of the Netherlands. But if you want to take a picture with a lot of windmill, than you have to go to Kinderdijk. There is another place with some windmill, it is Zaanze Schans also in Netherlands, but not as many as Kinderdijk.

Dank U wel, Meneer Herman

Namanya adalah Herman Joostens. Gue pertama kali ketemu saat kita berangkat ke Utrecth untuk mengikuti defense PhD-nya Trias. Orangnya sangat ramah dan bisa berbahasa Indonesia sedikit-sedikit. Dia ditemani oleh istrinya Gerda Joostens-de Jong.  Selama perjalanan, topik yang menarik bagi dia adalah tentang Indonesia, mulai dari sejarah, orang Indonesia, politik, dan hal lain yang menyangkut Indonesia. 

Hari kamis, 28 Juni 2007, jam 06.30 malam waktu Enschede, tiba-tiba dia mengetuk kamar apartemen gue (tepatnya memencet bel..hehehe). Ternyata, dia mengajak gue untuk melihat International Festival yang sedang berlangsung di Centrum, Enschede. Wah, kaget juga, padahal kita baru sekali ketemu, cuman gue langsung aja setuju. Memang gue tadinya ada rencana mau liat festival itu sih, cuman engga ada temen aja, begitu ada yang ngajak, ibarat pepatah: pucuk dicinta ulam tiba…hehehehe.