Life in a Dutch Windmill


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Item: #517, Posted: 13/11/05
The September 2005 edition of Roundabout, an English language magazine published in the Netherlands carries an article about Molen van Piet in Alkmaar, and the couple Cees and Rayann Piet who live in it. However, this is no house conversion - it's a working mill, which in order to be eligible for government subsidies, has a counter installed to ensure the sails make the minimum 500,000 revolutions a year to qualify.
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