Tulip mania or tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637, tulip contracts sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble.
We took a train to Leiden and then a bus through the heart of the bulb-growing region of Holland to the Keukenhof, near Lisse. This huge garden is only open mid-March to mid-May, has 9 miles of footpaths (I converted the kilometers for you, reader!) and 4.5 million tulips in 100 varieties. We took out our camera and the rest is history.
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