We had promised the kids that we'd go back to the magnificent Zuiderzee Museum. Thankfully the day was fine and we drove to Enkhuizen and parked at the station (free). It is only a short walk to the pier from where we could catch the ferry to the museum which we didn't do last time. It is always nice to go on water, and especially as it didn't cost any extra to take the boat with our Museumkaarts. The other nice thing about taking the ferry is that it dropped us off close to the row boats which were high on the list of priorities for the kids today.
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| Waiting for the Zuiderzee Museum ferry |
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| Loaded up with the picnic and coats |
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| The Ijsselmeer |
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| Eating chocolate hagel! |
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| The serenity.... |
We all hopped in the boats and enjoyed rowing about the
water area. The kids stopped off at the various islands and only when
the next ferry boat, with more eager would be rowers arrived did they
bring their boats to shore.
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| Row boat fun |
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| Boys playing on the islands |
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| Fishing! |
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| Old shops in the village |
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| Fun wagons |
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| Sunday hat and klompen |
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| Crazy Mama |
Back to the village we went
and saw buildings we hadn't seen last time. The museum was much more
busy today, perhaps because it was a Sunday. After a little coaxing,
Luke agreed to dress in traditional Dutch costume and looked
exceptionally cute! He spent ages milking the "goat" balanced on the
one legged stool.
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| Milking the goat on a one legged stool |
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| Cute as... |
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| He'd save a village from a flood any day...wouldn't he? |
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| In the old church |
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| Stark interior of the church |
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| Villagers... |
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| Checking the klompen for the right sizes |
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| Brothers in klompen |
It was a great day there and we walked back past the
Dromadaris, stopping for ice creams and watching the drawbridge in
action. We could see a boat waiting to go through and up zipped the
harbour mistress on her bike, precisely at 3 PM as the bells tolled, and
opened the drawbridge!
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| Ice creams at the Dromadaris - Tim chose a stroop waffel flavour - DELICIOUS |
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| Through the draw bridge |
Next stop was at Karl's cousin's house in Andijk. Karl, who name is
actually Karel has three cousins called Karel, an uncle and also his
grandfather called Karel! We don't think anyone in the Keesman family
named any of the children of the current generation Karel! We had met
Oom (Uncle) Karel twice before in Australia and he is a spritely 84 year
old who rides his bike 20kms with no trouble. Cousin Karel and his
wife Petra and daughter Linda, welcomed us warmly with coffee and Dutch
biscuits. We ended up staying for some delicious chicken soup and rolls
with Tim enjoying the guitar and Karel also playing!
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| 3 Karel Keesmans |
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| At the Keesmans house in Andijk |
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| Guitar friends |
We were aware of over staying our welcome with Luke covorting around the
place. Tim had kindly taken him to the local park where,
unfortunately, he had slipped in some dog poo and had to have an
emergency shower before we headed home! Never a boring moment!
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| Andik, bulb fields, and hedges |
The journey home was pale and misty until the dark rain clouds gathered quite rapidly as we approached Amsterdam, then the half moon came out and all seemed still.
this looks like a really lovely day Helen. Fun and family :)
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