This year we spent our Europe holiday in Friesland - together with my sister Rebekka and her fiancé Matthias. None of us had been to Terschelling before, so we took bicycle tours all across the island (by the way: the Netherlands are NOT flat!), got caught up in the middle of nowhere by high tide, ate Hollandse Nieuwe + Kippeling every day, hunted down a million mosquitos, and froze on the beach! The island is exactly how I imagined Friesland to be, in a good sense though.
Also, we've probably been to all "Hoorn's" of the world by now: the original Dutch city of Hoorn, freezing Cape Hoorn in Patagonia, and now even Cape Hoorn Pavillon on Terschelling!
Also, we've probably been to all "Hoorn's" of the world by now: the original Dutch city of Hoorn, freezing Cape Hoorn in Patagonia, and now even Cape Hoorn Pavillon on Terschelling!
The island hosts a cool shipwreck museum. Apparently it happens quite regularly, that big container ships run aground in the Wadden Sea and loose all their cargo! Whole container loads of jogging shoes or bananas have been washed ashore here already. A local woman, who was part of our wad excursion later that night, said, everyone collected the stuff, although the bananas were unripe and all the shoes didn't match. Seems, island life is not so boring, after all...
Here we are on a guided wad tour. Learnings: Wad worms will eat up each other's heads, when put together. Crabs produce foamy bubbles, when angry. And while wad-walking, the danger is not so much stepping on sharp Japanese oysters, but on a drowning bee. Matze can tell you all about it!
