Trip to Europe

I just returned yesterday from a trip to Beligum and Holland. The picture of me in front of the windmill at the Duyvus factory is proof that I was really working and not on a vacation. It was built in 1620!

We left Atlanta on Saturday and got to Belgium on Sunday. We were in a town called Luven which is about a half hour from the airport in Brussels. It is a College town and the closest town to the company we were visiting. Belgium Electronic Sorting Technologies has an x-ray machine at which we are looking to use to speed up a 50 year old grading system.

We ended up with about 3 hours to look around Luven one afternoon and about two hours in Brussels the next day before we went to Amsterdam. While in Brussels we visited with the Ag Minister from the US to the European Union. He was from Georgia and was glad to see some home folks. They are really helpful in working through problems that may arise with importing countries in the EU member countries.

In Holland we met with the head peanut buyer for Duyvus which is a Pepsico brand. They make a cracker coated peanut which I wish someone would market in the US. It is almost like a peanut coated with a shell of flavored corn chip. It has a nice crunch and many flavors. Folks all over Europe love them, especially young people.

We had about three hours to tour Amsterdam when we returned from the Duyvus factory. We took a one hour cruise of the canals. It is a typical central European city. We got to see Anne Frank's home on the tour.

Here is a picture of windmills in Holland and of the Cathedral in Luven.