20140429 Tuesday Enkhuizen Scroll down.
Overnight, the ship has a long passage from Arnhem through Amsterdam to Enkhuizen in the north.
Vantage: Enkhuizen
Cultural Connection: This morning, you’ll learn about the Dutch gardens phenomenon, Tulipmania. In the 17th century, get-rich-quick schemes involved frenzied wheeling and dealing of rare tulip bulbs at exorbitant prices — until the tulip bulb market crashed in 1637. Next, take pleasure in a visit to the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen, a lovely, open-air village that recreates life in the region at the turn of the last century. Cultural Connection: You’ll also be invited into a local home for appetizers with area families. Later, enjoy live entertainment on board.
Amsterdam - Hoorn - Enkhuizen overview:
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We woke up on our own a little early. Breakfast, of course. The day is foggy and moist. For a bit the sun came out and fooled everyone into thinking it would be a good day.
Then we went by small ferry to the Zuiderzee Museum and it turned cool and foggy again. But the museum is a fantastic effort at taking old homes and shops and bringing them together in little villages representing towns of the times prior to 1932, when the dike was completed and Enkhuizen was sealed off from the sea. The fishermen and all who supported them had to change their way of life or move.
You’ll have to look at the pictures (when I get them up) to see all the sites (and there were many we did not take pictures of). It’s also children-oriented in that there are many things for them to do.
Dolores got in all the walking she wanted to do, so we returned to the ferry and to Enkhuizen and to the River Navigator.
We went to lunch with Wally & Mary Kay, who got wet because they walked back to the ship through town. Had cheeseburger, which tasted very good. We got lined up to do the afternoon thing. Most were going to native-home visits, I went to walk the town.
I walked toward the sea about four blocks then left and right up the shopping area. The downtowns have great shopping areas here - perhaps the suburbs haven’t begun the exodus that destroys the town. I looked in several stores for souvenirs, but it looks like this town is much less a tourist town than the others. I walked back to the train station and had a beer. A train came in and let off several people. Then I walked back to the ship to begin the data entry and write this epistle.
Dolores came in about then and said she’d had a good time and had two alcoholic drinks plus nibblies. She says the house was beautiful.
Things got a little wilder at 1700 when the Captain’s cocktails were served followed by the Captains dinner. The drinks and wine were all on the house, and flowed freely.
We had a long dinner with talking, so we went to bed after that.