Worth checking out the park to the rear, especially in the Spring, as well as the windmill itself.
Red Lion Windmill (Molen De Roode Leeuw)的点评
点评:Our self guided walk also brought us to the riverside, to the Hollandsche Ijssel and from here to the former Gouda Castle where a windmill now stands.
The castle was built back in the mid 1300's complete with six towers overlooking both the river and the then town. The count who built it rarely lived there feeling it was too cold and damp.
Eventually, some 200 years later it was torn down by the city council and permission was given to build the windmill that stands on the site today. It was here that we learnt that every windmill in The Netherlands has a name in this case "t Slot" or The Lock referring to the locks that allowed passing boats to access the inner city from the river we had just passed.
To the right of the windmill is the miller's house under which some of the castles cellars are still located. There is a park to the rear of the windmill, which in the Spring is full of traditional Dutch bulbs which allowed us a welcome rest and a quiet place for reflection before continuing on to finish our walk.
翻译:我们的自助徒步之旅还带我们来到了河畔,来到荷兰艾瑟尔河,并从这里来到昔日的豪达城堡,那里如今矗立着一座风车。
这座城堡建于14世纪中期,拥有六座塔楼,俯瞰着河流和当时的城镇。建造城堡的伯爵很少在那里居住,因为他觉得那里太冷太潮湿。
最终,大约200年后,市议会拆除了城堡,并批准建造如今矗立在原址的风车。正是在这里,我们了解到,荷兰的每座风车都有一个名字,这里的名字是“t Slot”,即“The Lock”,指的是允许过往船只从我们刚刚经过的那条河进入内城的船闸。
风车的右侧是磨坊主的房子,城堡的一些地窖至今仍位于其下。风车后面有一个公园,春天的时候,公园里种满了传统的荷兰球茎花卉,让我们在继续徒步结束之前,可以在这里好好休息,静静地思考一番。