De Koepoort Enkhuizen

Today I met with one of Gyongyi's colleagues, Hans, and his wife Irene, and they took me to Enkhuizen. We visited the Land of Water Museum which is a lovely, old village that is a great representation of a typical early 1900s fishing/farming village. It is my understanding that they actually disassembled houses, shops, etc. and reassembled them on this site to make it as authentic as it possibly could be. There are vegetable gardens ...

... a Ferry that takes people to the Zuiderzeemuseum.This is a large outdoor museum showing the history of Northern Holland with historic buildings and displays. This took me 3 hours to look around. When Tine finished work she drove me back to her home and I met her daughter and Grand daughter. Today Tine took me on a tour of all the sites that where special to the 2 Johns and me ...

... maar bedauert sehr dat ze eigenlijk geen tijd hebben. Wij kijken sip ( W kijkt héél sip) en meneer gaat enigszins door de bocht. OK, ze kunnen wel even kijken, want nee, dit ziet er inderdaad niet goed uit. Roept er een monteurbij, die vordert de sleuteltjes en rijdt weg. Níet naar de andere ingang nee. Gewoon weg, hélemaal weg. Oh jé, is dit een nieuwe truc om je auto te pikken?? Die man zag er nog wel zo anständig uit! En T was al zo prettig verrast dat hij een ...

... them and kept grabbing their ball. Of course, the ball was chewed up after. ;( But the boys had a good laugh. We walked to a beautiful windmill from Tina's house, and after we went for a nice supper! Adam fell asleep because of the jet lag.

Yo people...J*clyn here! Sooo...this is the *msterd*m blog but currently I *m in Berlin Germ*ny, its h*rd to do the blogs in * timely m*nner given me losing h*lf of them, trying to find time, *nd m*shing *round *s h*rd *s I h*ve been. Sooo here is * quick upd*te, the r*in h*s followed us everywhere, i dont think I ever mentioned th*t my w*tch of like 6 ye*rs broke, the f*ce sh*ttered on the second d*y of the trip....*nd if you know *nything *bout me...you know I *lw*ys we*r ...

Hello again, We're in Berlin currently, pardon my typing on this computer, things are in sttrange places and the typing shows up so small on the screen I can barely read it. :) So, we toured Amsterdam after I wrote, we started at the Anne Frank house and then went by other historical buildings. I really liked the city, everything is historical and there are no real moden buildings mixed in with the old ones so ...

... May. In between booking our trip and actually going we received a nice surprise in that my cousin Chris was coming to Amsterdam with a friend and would stay with us. Chris' good friend's sister is living in Amsterdam with her boyfriend while they finish their studies. Chris' good friend Carla and he were going to come for a week. They ...

... jazz bar. Found it, but they weren't playing any live music as our group of 13 or 14 (quite drunk @ this point) were the only people in the joint. After some drinks, decide to go back to the hotel, absolutely convinced i knew my way there... After a whole heck of a lot of wandering, finally decide to ask the help of a friendly looking prostitute who happened to be on the corner (i swear officer!). Asked her where the hotel was, she had a pretty good idea ...

... gevulde koek in the tea garden at the bakkerijmuseum - that was fun! And the biscuit was still warm.... mmm! Then we drove back to enkhuizen, where we were having our last family meal together! Jose stopped off briefly at the side of the IJsselmeer, its very important that i get a glood glimpse of that famous lake before I leave - though i couldn't see the ships sailing in the sky this time: that is a sight well worth seeing! (When you look out over the water ...

Today Jose took myself and Olaf on a tour of Hoorn! We caught the train in, and first went to the Westfries Museum - in the most amazing building I have everseen! ( http://www.wfm.nl/english/info_e.htm ) They had the most random collection of items in there - a recreation of the dodo, furniture, clothing, bedding, coffee/tea/tobacco, clocks, preserved animal foetuses (?), the leathered skin of an eskimo (??), crockery, torture implements, coffins, etc etc - basically ...