On Friday, Mr. Traveler and I checked another "must see" off our list with a visit to the Alkmaar Cheese Market. We read about the market back in November, but it only runs from April to September, so we had to wait a while before making our visit. Then, we had to figure out a time that Mr. Traveler was available on a Friday morning. He was off for Good Friday, so we decided to finally make the hour long trip to Alkmaar.
There were piles of cheese in old fashion wagons.
Women and men dressed in traditional costumes.
And lots and lots of cheese.
Sounds pretty fun, huh? Well, we took all these pictures by raising the camera above people's heads. So instead of all that above, what we saw looked more like this:
That's right! The back of people's heads. We did get a few sneak peeks of the cheese, and I'm really not sure it would have been all that interesting even if we could have seen what was going on. Either way it was a let down. I guess it was just a little touristy for my taste.
After we'd had enough of the pushing and shoving crowd, we visited the
Biermuseum (which explained the historical brewing process) and the
Kaasmuseum (which had information about the production of cheese). Both were free with our Museumkaart, and we even got a free sample at the cheese museum. We then had lunch at a lovely little restaurant outside of the main tourist area.
Although the cheese market was definitely not all we thought it would be, once the day was over, I did feel like we'd had a nice outing. If nothing else, the weather cooperated and we got out of the house!
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