Club member Jane Schelly will present on her travels to the Netherlands.  Trips include 3 different bike/barge trips: 

1) a 7-day trip to North Holland through Zaanse Schans, Alkmaar, small villages, fishing harbors, the island of Texel and lovely farmland.  

2)  Called "Authentic Holland", this journey passed through several national parks and focused on the Hanseatic towns along the Dutch Rhine valley, Ijssel River and the border lakes - between the "old" mainland and the reclaimed land.  The rich trade towns were, in a way, the precursor of the EU in trading centers.

3) Amsterdam to Bruges thru Dutch and Flemish landscape, with focus on the Golden age

 of the 17th Century when art and architecture flourished. 

Also included will be independent travel:  biking and touring in Amsterdam, to the flower market in Aalsmeer, to Haarlem, Leiden, Keukenhof gardens, biking thru bulb fields, along the sand dune areas and nature reserves, and viewing the annual Flower Parade!!