The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

$3.50 IN the afternoon ana II was
still raining and very cold. We
stayed at the Hotel Witteburg, q
beautiful hotel, and we noticed as
we registered that many American
personalities including President
Eisenhower, General Ridgeway
and may others had stayed there
from time to time.
FleWsr Auction
On Monday, June LIST, we went
for q full days tour. It was still
raining very hard and very cold.
During the day, the temperature
was as low as ~ degrees. First we
went to see the flower auction
where we saw many persons who
we're selling flowers at auction and
others who were bringing them in
by boat.
At this auction, after the
flowers are bought by the diff
ferent flower dealers, they are i'm
mediately prepared and made rea.
dy for shipment to different mar.
kets throughout the world.
From there we went through
beautiful countryside where we saw
hundreds and hundreds of hot
houses, for the growing Of flowers.
We then went to Amsterdam where
we had lunch after which we went
sightseeing around the City and
saw the beautiful canals, the beau.
tiful houses and the clean streets.
After visiting around Amsterdam,
we started towards volendam. Vol.
endam is very picturesque viii
lage and the natives still wear
their traditional costumes.
From there we crossed by boat
to the Island Of Marker where the
natives also still wear their ira
ditional quaint costumes including
wooden shoes which are a little
different from those in other parts
of the country. It was very cold on
the Island of Marker probably a.
bout 40 degrees and from there we
went back to The Hague. The Coun.
try of Holland is very pretty, very
clean, the people seem friendly and
are neat and well dressed. The ca
mails are picturesque and the coun-
tryside is beautiful.
Coronation on ~
Tuesday, June 2, we spent at the
hotel where we were able to see
the coronation Of Queen Elizabeth
II, Of England by television. The
hotel had arranged for six tele-
vision sets to be placed in the din
ing room so that starting at 800
o'clock most of the guests started
to watch the coronation ceremon-
les. We saw the parade TO West
minister Abbey, the complete coro-
nation at Westminster Abbey, then
the parade back to Buckingham
Palace and then at night heard
Queen Elizabeth speak to the ma
ton.
On Wednesday, June 3, we left
The Hague at $3.50 in the morning
for Coblenz. 1t was very cold and
rainy. We changed trains at Gou-
da and at Utrecht we saw some
more Dutch farms with many beau
tiful trees, many flowers and crops
growing. On the way to Coblenz,
we passed by Cologne and Bonn.
Cologne still shows plenty of the
bombing, much of which has not
been repaired; you can still see
the ruhble and the big damage that
was done during the war. As a
matter of fact, it was said that it
was approximately IS per cent
bombed. We continued on the train
going along the Rhine and we pass.
ed by B mn, the capital of Western
Germany. There we saw quite a
number of the buildings or the re-
mains of buildings that. had been
bombed but there is quite lot of
repair work going on there.
We arrived at Coblenz at approx.
imatelv 100 o'clock and went to
our hotel. There is where we really
noticed the damage that had been