Netherlands Travel Pictures

Marken, Enkhuizen, Franeker, Zutphen

Part 2 of a 3-day road trip through parts of the Netherlands.

Part 1: Woerden, Leiden, Haarlem
Part 2 on this page: Marken, Enkhuizen, Franeker, Zutphen
Part 3: Pictures of Amsterdam from an earlier trip

Marken

Quaint wooden houses all over

Marken facade

The harbour

House with postbox

Manicured porch

Enkhuizen

Entrance of the Weeshuis, former orphanage

The Westerkerk tower

Look at the forward lean on these facades!

The real cat's just out.

Canal scene. Most of the houses lining it are beautifully kept and seem to be competing with each other for primness

One of the many nicely restored houses. I didn't seem to find a lot of straight lines on this one, most were somehow bent...

Holland wasn't out of the EM 2004 at this time yet...

The Drommedaris defence tower, a former prison

Fruit truck near the market

Door of the alms house

The house of "Disco Eend" (Disco Duck) in one of the canals

The brood of the Disco Duck

Afsluitdijk

On the 30 km long Afsluitdijk (closing dike), at the spot where it was closed in 1932

The dike-closing memorial

I was impressed by these pictures of the closing of the Afsluitdijk

Franeker

Olde restored house, which used to contain a family of 13 (!!) is open to the public. It doesn't seem that anything is straight or at right angles in this quaint little building

The facade of the Eise Eisinga Planetarium. He commenced building an intricate model of the heavenly bodies on his own in 1774 to convince believers of an imminent end-of-the-world acocalypse of the contrary

Inside the town hall, a painting of Eise Eisinga

Bronkhorst

Straw-roofed house

Idyllic yard

Zutphen

The Walburgskerk is now a library

A old, tall facade

Continue on to Part 3: Pictures of Amsterdam from an earlier trip