Slow cruise today of only about 1 1/2 hours and one of the towns that was a must see is Giethoorn. We actually had much less sailing time than that because we had to wait for half an hour for the bridge master to come back from lunch to open for us near Blaue Hande. So you just park off and make a cup of coffee and wait. No problem.
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| Bridge Master Was On Lunch |
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| Marina at Giethoorn |
Richard is getting pretty experienced with the locks and the bridges story and cruises through like he's been doing it all his life.
The marina is clean and spacious with beautiful lawns and soon we were on our bikes again to see the town. I will let the pics speak for them self but it is truly a fairylands experience to ride through this village.
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| Giethoorn |
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| First Time We Saw Clogs |
Giethoorn used to be a car free town known in the Netherlands as "Venice of the North"
or "Venice of the Netherlands".
Giethoorn has over 180 bridges.
In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals.
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| Waiting on our Bikes This Time |
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| Giethoorn |
The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat
unearthing.
Giethoorn was founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230.
Today while shopping in the supermarket was the first time we saw anyone here wearing clogs. I didn't think the still wore them.
We might just stay another day and do some more sight seeing.
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