Embroidered Collage

This wasn't quite what I expected when the guidebook said castle.  I usually think fortified structure of stone, but this was more like a large brick manor house.  Yet, it also had a moat along three sides and the entrance to the fourth was protected by a guard post.  It had also been the residence a local noble until the mid 1900s.

It was definitely the most local experience of my trip.  The tour of the house was in Dutch, with English hand outs and the occasional opportunity to ask and have a question answered.  I enjoyed seeing the different rooms and there was some interesting history associated with them.  The way the rooms were put together and furnished had a disctinctly different feel than visiting American homes of quality from a similar era, partly from the additional layers of history in the building, perhaps.