Journey: Giethoorn – Groningen – Winschoten
We were up and organised this morning – keen to see Giethoorn before the rain came. We hired bikes and cycled about the gorgeous thatched houses and canals… Not thinking to stop and take a photo of the lovely town 🙈Dutch bikes are hard work – heavy, cumbersome things that brake by peddling backwards… Still it gave our thighs a good workout.
We then took the pups for a walk and did the van chores, while Ernest watched from his favourite spot. I had originally wanted to go to Groningen to climb their epic climbing wall but hasn’t realised you had to be a pro, so we had a potter about the town and went to a cool exhibition at the university museum about spaceship earth… It contained some of the wierdest and freakiest things I have ever seen. I’m just not use to seeing dead stuff in glass jars 😨😳 (you may not like some of the photos).
We found a lovely vegan cafe and had a tumeric latte which is my new favourite – so warming and good for digestion. From there we went to the Groningen museum which is a really fun modern building but doesn’t have that much in it. Still there were a couple of lovely pieces that stood out for me. I was oddly drawn to the farmers bright handkerchief. Loved that painting by a local artist.
We opted to go to a popular photo spot of colored houses and marina but too be fair the weather doesn’t do it justice so we walked the dogs and Mark delegated coming up with campstop to me while he went food shopping. Other than heading straight to Bremin we hadn’t really got any other places planned for the Netherlands, and I was more than a little annoyed he hadn’t done any route planning while in Arnhem. Still I plumped for a small town and we found a nice enough place to park at the marina so we can explore tomorrow.
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