Marco and I celebrated our wedding anniversary (19 September) a bit early this year by taking a trip to the north of The Netherlands to visit a city called Groningen. It was a pretty far journey by Dutch standards (2 hours and 40 minutes by train) although by American standards it could be considered a daily commute…?
One of the highlights of the visit was the Prinsentuin in the northern part of the city centre.
This garden was created in 1626 and includes a rose garden, herb garden and “berceaus” (a sort of tree tunnel where trees line both sides and are allowed to grow into each other, creating a tunnel).
Those tunnels are very handy when it begins to rain unexpectedly! If you were hiding in the tunnel you could (mostly) stay dry. This part of the garden gave me Secret Garden vibes (English Wikipedia).
Here is another look at the construction of the “tunnels”.
There was also a special guest running about, trying not to get wet. How nice it must be to have an entire playground and scratch toy to yourself!
Above: a picture taken by Marco of some of the roses in bloom. There weren’t too many left considering the time of the year, but these were beautiful.
Life in the Hague 