we had a wonderful time at the Amsterdamse Bos yesterday. the Bos is a very very large woodland area situated between Amsterdam, Amstelveen and the Schiphol Airport. it took us about 50 minutes to bike there - mike with the kids in the bakfiets and me on the solo bike. i know i haven't said much about the bakfiets yet, more on that later.
we started at Boerderij Meerzicht, a massive pancake house which boasts 43 types of pancakes, or pannenkoeken in dutch. luckily we got 2 savory pancakes in addition to 2 sweet ones - which after a while was sugar overload. pictured is the pancake making setup - a rotating conveyor belt which takes the pancakes through the oven. as they come out they are flipped and allowed about 20 seconds in the hot pan before taken out.
luckily we went on a weekday because looking at the amount of seating they had and the deli number system for retrieving you pancakes, it looked like it was possible to wait a very very long time for the delicious circles of syrup and powdered sugar.
i read that no visit to the Bos would be complete without a visit to Ridammerhoeve, a beautiful organic goat farm. with a brilliant blue sky as a backdrop the kids got to wander around the goat pens and feed the young goats from bottles. there were roosters and chickens everywhere as well as some pigs and cows. 
the place had a very nice playground and tons of seating - i imagine it is very crowded on a nice saturday afternoon. i would have loved to sample the goat's milk cheese from the shop but we were so stuffed from our pancake lunch that we passed. however, the kids were not too full to try some goat's milk ice cream. they said it did not taste of goats at all.
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