□ Placeholder: 11 — Hoge Veluwe National Park, Netherlands

Finally!

After a month, this weekend we had what I'd like to call: a day with relatively better weather. When I say relatively better weather I meant the day was still gloomy and downcast but what made it relatively better was unlike other days, it wasn't raining. That's all it takes to call a weather relatively better when you have been in the Netherlands for about six months. I hope you understand the underlying pain that I am trying to hide in the play of words.

To bank on the relatively better weather, we drove an hour away from the city to Hoge Veluwe National Park, in Gelderland province. The park is humongous and in this weather we thought we would have the park all to ourselves but as it turned out many people wanted to cash on the relatively better weather day.

Once you get in the park, you can pickup bicycles (for free) and ride around. We didn't have a specific plan but we did know that this park housed the second largest collection of Van Goghs in the world. As we were making our way to the museum, through sand dunes and woodlands, we stumbled into a Christmas market in the middle of nowhere. We parked the bicycles, and did what you're expected to do in a Christmas market: browse, eat, drink.

I had no intentions to click photos so I didn't bring a dedicated camera. However, I did bring an iPhone XR and shot in RAW. Here are some post processed photos for Hoge Veluwe National Park.

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Until next time

K