We liked Netherlands after all. At first we thought we would pass by quickly through Netherlands to Belgium and finally to France where we enjoyed our almost month-long RVing in June this year.
We visited Groningen and liked the old buildings and the cheap breakfast at IKEA. We then drove past Amsterdam because we had been there twice. We were not in a hurry though and stopped at a beach which GPS showed to be interesting, so we made a detour and found Brouwersdam beach and it's gigantic parking spaces. We were amazed - there were a lot of RVs parked vertically or horizontally along the beach seemingly not concerned about occupying too much space. It was a very pleasant place to park because everyone seems to be having a good time swimming, watching the sunset, just relaxing and at about 10pm there was about fifty hook and line fishermen in a row in an opening from the other side of the dam. We watched most of them caught one of two salmon, we guessed. We hang out till about 12 midnight then we went to a small village of Scharendijke and park there to spend the night.
We started liking Netherlands and reading about the country. We learned that 25 percent of their land is below sea level and 50 percent is just 1 meter above sea level. We read about Delta Works which is a series of dams, bridges and barriers designed to protect their country from flooding. Due to global warming, should the North Sea rise, these Delta Works should be able to protect them, at least this century, their government said. I then, admired the Dutch people for their resilience and tenacity to fight the nature as best they can and their being able to be a rich country despite this huge challenge.
We drove to Middelburg where by stroke of good luck, we where pointed to where to park legally at night for free by a policeman, so we made Middelburg our homebase. We visited neighboring villages/town mostly along the coast like Vlissingen, Westkapelle and Veere. Some more towns we visited are Oostkapelle, Zoutelande and Biggerkerke, Goes, and Krabbendijke..
Coming to Middelburg, we crossed Dammenweg, Brouwersdam and Pijlerdam. We became very impressed with Netherlands. So we decided before leaving Zeeland, we might as well cross the other dams/briges/barriers. One sunny day we did - we crossed Zealandbrug, Rijksweg, Philipsdam and finally Oesterdam (Oyster Dam) which is the longest dam with a length of 11 kms.
We have a huge respect and admiration for the Dutch people and even ourselves were surprised, we like Netherlands.
We visited Groningen and liked the old buildings and the cheap breakfast at IKEA. We then drove past Amsterdam because we had been there twice. We were not in a hurry though and stopped at a beach which GPS showed to be interesting, so we made a detour and found Brouwersdam beach and it's gigantic parking spaces. We were amazed - there were a lot of RVs parked vertically or horizontally along the beach seemingly not concerned about occupying too much space. It was a very pleasant place to park because everyone seems to be having a good time swimming, watching the sunset, just relaxing and at about 10pm there was about fifty hook and line fishermen in a row in an opening from the other side of the dam. We watched most of them caught one of two salmon, we guessed. We hang out till about 12 midnight then we went to a small village of Scharendijke and park there to spend the night.
We started liking Netherlands and reading about the country. We learned that 25 percent of their land is below sea level and 50 percent is just 1 meter above sea level. We read about Delta Works which is a series of dams, bridges and barriers designed to protect their country from flooding. Due to global warming, should the North Sea rise, these Delta Works should be able to protect them, at least this century, their government said. I then, admired the Dutch people for their resilience and tenacity to fight the nature as best they can and their being able to be a rich country despite this huge challenge.
We drove to Middelburg where by stroke of good luck, we where pointed to where to park legally at night for free by a policeman, so we made Middelburg our homebase. We visited neighboring villages/town mostly along the coast like Vlissingen, Westkapelle and Veere. Some more towns we visited are Oostkapelle, Zoutelande and Biggerkerke, Goes, and Krabbendijke..
Coming to Middelburg, we crossed Dammenweg, Brouwersdam and Pijlerdam. We became very impressed with Netherlands. So we decided before leaving Zeeland, we might as well cross the other dams/briges/barriers. One sunny day we did - we crossed Zealandbrug, Rijksweg, Philipsdam and finally Oesterdam (Oyster Dam) which is the longest dam with a length of 11 kms.
We have a huge respect and admiration for the Dutch people and even ourselves were surprised, we like Netherlands.
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