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The
pre-tour will begin on the evening of Tuesday May 29th, 2007, and
will end on Saturday June 2nd, 2007, after breakfast.
The tour
has Holland’s struggle with the sea and the polder creation process as a main
theme as well as industrial milling in the Dutch Golden (17th/18th)
Century. It will take participants to some of Holland’s most famous,
impressive and ancient “must-see” mills, mostly situated below sea level.
The tour
begins in Alkmaar and ends at the symposium hotel in Putten. A single room can
be requested, but is not guaranteed on two nights owing to limited hotel
accommodation. Mill friends who have visited some of these mills before will
experience during this tour what the difference is between an individual visit
and a specially prepared tour!
Schedule: (still subject to
alteration)
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Tuesday May
29th |
arrival; registration (3.00 -
6.00 pm); dinner and introductory presentation (6.30 pm); hotel in Alkmaar;
please read the information
under How to get there for
travel directions |
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Wednesday May 30th |
(after early wake-up call) the wind-powered
drainage system (drainage mills) of the 17th century
Schermer
polder below sea level, including museum; Zaansche Schans (oil/paint/saw mills and mill museum,
historical village); hotel in Kinderdijk/Alblasserdam
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Thursday May
31st |
world's largest
cornmills in Schiedam; related distillery
museum; working
spice & tobacco windmills in Rotterdam; evening boat tour with a view of the 19 mills of UNESCO World Heritage Kinderdijk
site; hotel in Kinderdijk/Alblasserdam
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Friday June
1st |
visit of Kinderdijk mills and museum and
17th century former
office building (with beautifully decorated and furnished
rooms); hollow post drainage mill and working diesel pumping station at Langerak; post mills on city ramparts of Heusden;
dinner and accommodation at symposium hotel Mooi Veluwe (Putten)
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Saturday June 2nd |
end of pre-tour after breakfast
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Optional
Excursion to the Netherlands Open Air Museum
Saturday
June 2nd 09.00
am – 4.00 pm;
please read the
information
under
About the Symposium.
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