Leiden, Netherlands a Dutch haven

Snow dusts trees along a canal in Leiden. The city, about 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam, was a refuge for the Pilgrims, who eventually came to America.Snow dusts trees along a canal in Leiden. The city, about 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam, was a refuge for the Pilgrims, who eventually came to America.
Leiden, which is like a compact Amsterdam, is also laced with canals.
A worker tends a pond containing giant Victoria lilies in the Hortus Botanicus, founded in 1594. The botanical garden cultivated some of Europe's first tulips, a flower emblematic of Holland.