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| Sailing boat out on the Waddensee |
Sunny spells and breezy. I made some sandwiches and we went out for a ride in
the car, north to Sneek on to the A7 motorway across the Afsluitdijk, pausing
to have a look at the Waddensee and the islands plus all the sailing ships,
then again to photograph the statue of Dr Cornelius Lely (1854-1929), the engineer
who introduced the plan to create the Afsluitdijk. On via Medemblik to the
Markerwaarddijk, a causeway across to Flevoland at Lelystadt, then a short
diversion to see if we could see anyone in clogs and traditional dress at Urk.
No chance. The place was heaving
with tourists and it seemed that they’d
changed the place a lot. I was sure that in the past we’d been along a small
quay where there were just fishing boats and old men in traditional working
clothes, black baggy trousers, black shirts and clogs. Now there were just a
few fishing boats at one end of a long quay where many yachts, cruisers and DBs
were moored. We drove through the village which is on a small hill which was once an
island that towered 30 feet above what was then the Zuiderzee.
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| Dr Cornelius Lely |
Click here to see what Wiki says about Urk
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| The Afsluitdijk - on the left Waddensee on the right Ijsselmeer |
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| Fishing boats at Urk |
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| Killer whale and moored yacht in Urk |
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| Lighthouse in Urk |
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| Monument in Urk |
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