After Alkmaar, our tour went to a windmille at Molen. We learned a lot about how they used dozens of windmills to drain the lakes to create agricultural land. This land is called polders, and they have to continuously drain them to keep them from flooding. Today they use electric pumps instead of windmills though.
This is a 3 minute video I put together of clips I took while touring the windmill.
Is this an idyllic shot, or what?
