Floriade 2012, etc.

The central event for this trip was Floriade, the once per decade horticulture show the Dutch put on, and that was Friday’s destination. This year’s six month exhibition is being hosted in Venlo, near the eastern border of the Netherlands and about 45 minutes north of our hotel in Maastricht. It’s always an incredible collection of all things growing, but for us the 2012 event was a perhaps a bit less dramatic than the one in 2002. With that being said, it is still an amazing collection of exhibits and we had great time.

Today it was off to the center of Maastricht to take in a few roman ruins, churches, etc. The town was packed with shoppers, tourists and folks just enjoying the warm, overcast spring day. To be noted, Monday is Queen’s Day in the Netherlands and Tuesday is May Day, aka Worker’s Day, in much of the enlightened world, so the visitor count around here is not trivial.

Today’s only bummer is that my new Tamron 35mm camera lens has failed. It still works, but after every image I get a failure message from the camera and either have to wait a minute for the message display to time out or cycle the camera power. I was determined to only schlep one lens this trip, so either the shooting will be slower or Laurel’s Shure-shot will be the only recorder, which is probably a good idea anyway.

I’m skipping the Google plus idea.

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