Kröller-Müller museum

Peter of the Old House recommended a cash and carry for beer buying in Veurne and we bought a modest supply. They had a new way of operating the check-out. You wheel up the trolley beside an empty one. The operator transfers everything to a second trolley using a portable scanner. You move the trolley to the cash desk and pay up. It means the operators get strong muscles.
Getting to Otterlo in Holland was trouble free but boring. Dutch motorways seem to be on a grid pattern so lots of interchanges. We stayed at Carnegie Cottage with a small if comfortable room and an excellent dining room/art gallery just on the edge of the National Park and very convenient for getting into the Kröller-Müller Museum at 10:00 the next day behind two coachloads of Japanese tourists.
I must try and discover what it is about Japanese society that makes it more important for them to photograph each other in front of things than actually look at what they've come so far to see. They are incredibly good at modelling; falling into poses very quickly.

We escaped the Japanese by going out into the very cold gardens and enjoying some of our favourite sculptures especially Lipfschitz (sic) and discovered a new sculpture of a large red painted boiler suspended from trees and with a maximum occupancy of two, but then retreated inside to look at Van Goghs in a rather differently arranged exhibition with some we had never seen before.