Hoge Bergse Bos.

The weather is finally summer-like! So hours are to be spent outside, making the most of it. On Sunday Phil proposed to take a detour on our way to Kralingse Bos and we ended up in Hoge Bergse Bos and its surroundings. The views were ideal, little canals everywhere, windmills and happy faces soaking up the sun. 

Couldn't get much more picturesque than this. 

Close up with shallow depth of field. I warned you these kind of pictures would be coming up on my blog...

Camouflaged containers. 

Horsey with highlights in its hair.

Me in my summer outfit. Photo by Phil. 

Hello, sheep.

Blindfolded horses.  No, they aren't actually blindfolded. I learned (I love the internet!) that these masks are to prevent flies getting to the poor horses' eyes. Horses can see through them. 

Artificial ski slope. 

Zevenhuizerplas.

Nice and fresh tootsies. 

My first café con hielo of the year. 

I'm guessing this must be a sign to a chicken farm, but I'm not sure. Update! No, it isn't! Dre says: 

"The sign of the chicken and eggs is the enterance of the petting zoo i used to go as a child. Making cheese, drinking fresh goat milk (milked by yourself) and playing with all the animals. It used to be really nice. I should
go back one day."

The Manna Monument to commemorate the Operations Manna. Some wiki info: 

Operations Manna and Chowhound took place from 29 April to the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May 1945. These two operations—Manna by the Royal Air Force (29 April – 7 May) and Chowhound by the U.S. Air Force (1–8 May)—dropped a total of 11,000 tons of food into the still-unliberated western part of the Netherlands, with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to help feed civilians who were in danger of starvation in the Dutch famine.