Flowers

   

A flower box on a railing overlooking one of the canals.

 The Netherlands is flower heaven.   You see flowers everywhere, even decorating bicycles.   Most of the bridges over the canals have planter boxes filled with flowers.  In the floating Bloomenmarket (flower market) on Singel Canal, is every type of garden flower you could possibly want; from seed packages to multi bulb plants ready to put into the ground, including a myriad of tulip bulbs in every size shape and description.  Unfortunately the tulip bulbs for sale now are for EU use only and not available for export.  The vendor we chatted with told us that the tulip bulbs for export were not available.  They were yet to pass inspection and be cleared for import into the US.  When they are cleared the packages will have an special sheet attached denoting the bulbs have been inspected and are ok'd for US tourists like us, to take home.

This bike will be hard to lose!