A cheese market

We went to Alkmaar to see a cheese market.   This is where the cheese makers bring their cheeses to be weighed and prepared to sell on the market.  Here you see the cheeses brought to the market, laid out and then the men with the cheese carriers on their shoulders take a stack of them to the scales.

After they have been weighed they are carried out to be packed up for shipping or selling.  

Here we see some of the girls dressed in typical dutch clothing who go around to 

take orders from the tourists and people who are watching.