Normally April would be tulip festival time in Holland. But right now, across the country, gardens and displays and the eerie, colour-swatch fields are all empty. I've never been. It's a bit of a silver holidaymaker thing to do; coaches and people with microphones. With the intention of putting a crease in my mind for next year, or the year after if things go very badly wrong, here's a little in the way of trippy trips through tulips from Holland.
This view of the famous Keukenhof garden unfortunately has an audio-backdrop of copyright free loops; these can and should be safely muted. I matched it with Lemon Jelly's Elements instead, for best results start a little before the Keukenhof video.
This dawn drone fly-through and over of the same garden has some proper gasp-out loud moments, and although the colours are muted by the digital eye in the sky's auto-adjustments and the gentle dawn light, this actually adds to the ethereality of the view. The audio-backdrop is not as bad, but anyone who wants to skip the auto-drama-classical and elfy oooing can instead safely substitute Tiny Foldable Cities by Orbital (and if you want a brief urban break from the tulips, that video is ideal).
Finally, a view of the incredible tulip fields, and again I would pull a music substitution - Four Tet's Two Thousand and Seventeen mixes well with this dreamy slice of floral agri-tech. Some lovely views of the little stand-on tulip cutters they use to harvest the blooms in this one, alongside the obligatory windmill action, along with breathtaking close-ups of the blooms in single-variety blocks, fascinating in their absolute perfect sameness.
This view of the famous Keukenhof garden unfortunately has an audio-backdrop of copyright free loops; these can and should be safely muted. I matched it with Lemon Jelly's Elements instead, for best results start a little before the Keukenhof video.
This dawn drone fly-through and over of the same garden has some proper gasp-out loud moments, and although the colours are muted by the digital eye in the sky's auto-adjustments and the gentle dawn light, this actually adds to the ethereality of the view. The audio-backdrop is not as bad, but anyone who wants to skip the auto-drama-classical and elfy oooing can instead safely substitute Tiny Foldable Cities by Orbital (and if you want a brief urban break from the tulips, that video is ideal).
Finally, a view of the incredible tulip fields, and again I would pull a music substitution - Four Tet's Two Thousand and Seventeen mixes well with this dreamy slice of floral agri-tech. Some lovely views of the little stand-on tulip cutters they use to harvest the blooms in this one, alongside the obligatory windmill action, along with breathtaking close-ups of the blooms in single-variety blocks, fascinating in their absolute perfect sameness.
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