Damain Murphy, Karen's brother , very genously fore went his brother in law's birthday lunch to take me for a drive . We
hit the Koffie and applebak trailand visited the beautfu, village of Muiden with the Muiderslot (castle ) built by some clever bloke in the 1200's who slung a chain across te river and charged boats to cross. This is the more recent version of the castle which was occupiedfrm th 1500's by the family of a P.C. Hoost , a writer and administrator who had a cultural salon there. This was at time when Holland was incredibly wealthy due to the spice trade and wealthy merchants had to do something with their money so bought paintings...which were formerly only created for religious purposes. They commissioned paintings of their own lives and portraits...pity Chris wasn't born in those times!
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