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The flower market

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  • You have to rise early and arrive by car ( 6am) to see this amazing site, things get going from 4 am when the traders participate in the famous dutch auction (ie backwards- high price to lowest), millions of flowers are shipped in from all over the world and sold by auction, staff travel around on electrified trolleys at amazing speed in all directions ( it looks like a scene from metropolis) and the sold flowers are sent in batches overhead to the lorries to be sent around europe. The colours and smell is lovely and the level of organisation stupifying!

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  • aalsmeer international flower market
  • Postbus 1000
  • 1430 BA Aalsmeer
  • 0297 - 39 39 39
  • http://www.aalsmeer.com/
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