Vollenhove, Netherlands

Dancing with the departed

That evening we are treated to a walking tour of the city by author Wim Willemse. He explains that Vollenhove was once a port on the Zuider Zee, a prosperous Hanseatic League city with an important fish industry, and later a peat industry. 600 years later, fleeting fortune, the sea is turned...

written by

roel krabbendam on June 24, 2007 from Vollenhove, Netherlands

from the travel blog: Heaven

Things

Polly’s purple lump is moving south, descending towards her left eye, and I harbor ignorant concerns about what happens when they collide. We head north to Giethoorn, tourist mecca. The day is hot and sunny, and I will end the day with the sunburn I never got in the Sahara. At Jonen we...

written by

roel krabbendam on June 24, 2007 from Vollenhove, Netherlands

from the travel blog: Heaven

Viewing 1 - 2 of 2 Entries
first | previous | next | last