{"id":59,"date":"2008-08-24T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2intandem.net\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-07-28T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:41:31","slug":"day-6-the-hoge-veluwe-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 (21\/8) &#8211; The Hoge Veluwe National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We expected this visit to be the high point of the tour for us, and it certainly did not disappoint. The Hoge Veluwe National Park and the Kroller-Muller museum and Art Gallery at its centre are absolutely stunning and we enjoyed our best day of the holiday so far.<\/p>\n<p>The park itself is enormous, and can only be visited on foot or by bicycle. To give an idea of the size, a tour of the park by bike involves completing a ride of around 35Km. The Kroller-Muller museum and Art Gallery contain numerous works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Mondrian, Rodin, Moore and Hepworth among others.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the park by visiting its website, which includes a live webcam, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogeveluwe.nl\/default.asp?language=2\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who arrive by car must park at the entrance and take one of the famous &#8216;white bikes&#8217; to tour the park&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1041-hogeveluwe-bikes.jpg\",\"The white bikes in the Hoge Veluwe National Park\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>The white bikes in the Hoge Veluwe National Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1057-hogeveluwe-beehives.jpg\",\"Beehives in the Hoge Veluwe National Park\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1735-hogeveluwe-view.jpg\",\"View of the Hoge Veluwe National Park\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>Views of the Hoge Veluwe National Park including the beehives<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A selection of sculptures from the Sculpture Garden at the Kroller-Muller museum&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1422-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture.jpg\",\"Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden, Hoge Veluwe National Park\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1434-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture2.jpg\",\"Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden, Hoge Veluwe National Park\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1127-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture3.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1128-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture4.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1129-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture5.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1138-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture6.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1408-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture7.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1408-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture8.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1409-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture9.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1410-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture10.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1411-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture11.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1414-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture12.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1416-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture13.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1424-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture14.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/1454-hogeveluwe-krollermullersculpture15.jpg\",\"A sculpture at the Kroller-Muller museum\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\nWe dined at the Buffet restaurant near the entrance to the park. Steve paid another of his visits to the Slagroom&#8230; I should hastily point out that this is not a colloquial term for a &#8216;house of ill repute&#8217;, but Dutch for whipped cream. The Dutch certainly do their cholesterol in style &#8211; diverse cheese and eggs at breakfast, toasted cheese sandwiches (&#8216;tostis&#8217;) for lunch and whipped cream on the hot chocolate, Dutch apple cake (a speciality), and in this case, profiteroles!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nimg(\"2008\/08\/21\/ht\/2016-hogeveluwe-steveslagroom.jpg\",\"Steve pays a visit to the slagroom...\")\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>Steve pays a visit to the slagroom&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We expected this visit to be the high point of the tour for us, and it certainly did not disappoint. The Hoge Veluwe National Park and the Kroller-Muller museum and Art Gallery at its centre are absolutely stunning and we enjoyed our best day of the holiday so far. The park itself is enormous, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,10,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2intandem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}