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Holland is a country of water. As the French put it: ‘God created the world, but the Dutch made Holland’. A quarter of Holland is below sea level. Arriving at Schiphol Airport you are more than four meters below sea level. The many canals, lakes, dikes, bridges and polders give the Netherlands its special character and of course there is the constant struggle with the sea. After many years of absence, it hit me once again how much water there is and how green the country looks. In this gallery I've tried to show in a small way, the beauty of the lowlands.