European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse South Holly fld Gouda s store link museum contains a Large collection of paintings As Well As gruesome instruments of torture. Touring dutch town is fast fun and fillings a photos by Dave Casey the old town Hall built around 1450, was once surrounded by a Moat. By Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau to tour Gouda in the Netherlands is to depart satisfied free from the common lament of a trip too Short. Tourists toting Michelin guides still Crisp from the store know the words too Well. They go something like this sure wish we could spend another Day or two Here. You really need it to see that this dutch town 33 Miles South of Amsterdam can be visited in less time than it takes to tour just one of Paris Many Art museums adds to its Appeal. In fact its. Quaint City Center and wide variety of typically dutch sights Charm about a half million visitors a year and keep them coming Back. Anne Allen with her Friend sue Whiteside from Kel Lavik Iceland did just that recently. The women were in the Netherlands chaperoning Kel Lavik High school students who were taking part in a simulation of the United nations organi action in the Hague. Allen said she wanted Whiteside to experience Coda As she had done when she and her air Force husband lived in Soester Beig about or Miles away. Coda has my Many of the qualities of the Netherlands that i Loe Allen explained. You in Ako see it in hours whether you have two hours or a Hole leisurely Day Start your visit in the town s Market Square of a term in the Middle of Coda. You la know Vohen y be found the Square bet Ause t billed by tourism off it tals As the oldest free standing gothic town Hall country. The Hall s Carillon Chimes every half hour after which a figurine of count Vioris a emerges from a door on the East Side of the building to present Coda with its City charter As the dignitary did in 1272. Behind the town Hall on the Square you la find the tourist office in a White building marked with a Blue and White sign with the letters vow. Try to make it your first Stop but Don t be surprised when employees there Start referring to what sounds like another town. In dutch Coda is pronounced How for 1 dutch Guilder about 55 cent you can buy a pamphlet that highlights 14. Recommended sights on a a map of the old City Center. Among its listings Are of course the town Hall with several rooms that can be toured and St. Jan a Church a gothic Basilica with 70 giant breathtaking stained Glass windows. Surprisingly the 1 la Century windows look vibrant even on Gray Days which Are fairly commonplace in Coda thanks to its proximity to the North sea. Officials removed and safely stored the windows during world War ii thus explaining their Pristine condition. In addition to its noteworthy windows the Church also enjoys the reputation As i Lolland s longest stretching the length of 1 american football Fields. On thursdays and saturdays you can enjoy concerts played by the " own Carillon eur on the Church s 1 Bell Carillon from april to september visiting dutch musicians perform on one of the Church s two pipe organs every week. Thursday mornings in july and August visitors to Coda can watch As Farmers sell their cheese at the 1 7th-Century weigh House on the Market Square. The cheese Market in Coda is not As Large an event As its counterpart in Alkmaar said tourism spokeswoman i Lemi Etle Steenkamer. In that Puu h town pairs of men dressed in White with wide brimmed Gould ids so inane of the uses of the Netherlands that i love a s american tourist Anne Allen. Coloured fits run wildly about carrying wheels of c Heese to the Scales aboard sleds. In Coda continue Ilon i Jutt i a Druary 25, i j / j if be n Jug i be
