sitkakoala: Utrecht Dom Tower and Pom

September 19th 2017

The Airbnb we are staying at has a really cute cat host named Pom!
This might have been the reason we picked this place, don't judge!!

It was nice to get some playing and kitty interaction in the middle of our trip. Of course one of the most challenging things for us to travel is: we have animals!

Finding a housesitter can be challenging! But we are lucky to have a really really great one. For this trip our regular housesitter could only do 3/4 of the time we are gone, so we have another one stepping in today......Hope all goes according to plan!!!

So much entertainment! But, we must go explore!! It is truly Autumn here- beautiful sunflower!!

And we came across a shop that sells only hand made by local items, the person that made this lock studied this in university! They also crafted the AMAZING safe(that actually works!!!) in the picture above. Ken wanted to take it home!! Its true, I liked it too.

Burgers at Ludens for lunch!

The amazing thing I find about both Belgium and the Netherlands is they are proud of where their food comes from, they take time to explain the breeds and the care involved in where their food comes from!!

Then we visited the historic Dom Tower. Also known as the Domkerk (Dom Chuch) History states it was founded in 43 AD! But its growth happened over many of the following years.

The highest "tower" in the Netherlands, standing at 112.5 metres (368 feet) in height. 465 narrow steps brings you to the top! Sadly, this was under construction while we visited. I was ready for some stairs!!

In 1674 there was a huge storm that knocked down one of the naves. It was never rebuilt due to lack of funding.

The stained glass was magnificent.

Then, we stumbled upon a gaming store! Packed to the brim, everywhere you turned more and more games and puzzles and gag gifts. Really neat place to stumble upon!!

The train Museum was a highly recommended place, but we arrived quite late in the day and they were honest with us and said we did not have time to see the museum in its entirety, but they let us in for free to see what we could in the 40 minutes we had!!

Ken with his translation software again!

Manual change signs telling you were the train is going, I wonder if people got on the wrong trains back in the day? No, of course we have not done that(yet!)

Even the bathrooms were built with functionality as if for a train! Pull the lever to flush!! Luggage storage display......

Then dinner at the restaurant that Xandy recommended, inside a cave like structure below the street! We never would have found this place on our own!!