Eliot's Travels

On our way back to 't Loo from the Weerribben, Mary and Jim took us on a more scenic route. I had lost my navigator privledges earlier in the trip. For some reason, I have had the worst luck navigating and have added time and km unnecessarily. So, John and I happily followed (with AC) the VW Fox out in front (without AC). We headed along country roads just on the other side of the hay land we had canoed past an hour before. This was the same section showed in the picture where I am standing in the canoe.

We followed N334 down into what we came to learn is the "Dutch Venice" - village of Geithoorn (at least according to the Dutch and maybe the thousands of Germans swarming to the village in the summer.) We had no idea this was even here but there were thousands of people along the waterways as we drove by. From Lonely Planet - Giethoorn has been discovered in a big way, appearing in summer to be peopled entirely by sun-burnt holiday-makers, parked cheek-by-jowl in miles of identical camper-vans along the ample canalside space. This does sum it up. Campers, RVs, moored boats, yachts, large sailboats, tents, people fishing and hanging out, bikes, and more boats. It was quite a scene. This area is an expanse of lake, pond, canal, and river that's been formed by centuries of haphazard peat digging. Geithoorn, opposite to most Dutch geography, is built on water cossed by a few bits of land.

After driving through the urban sprawl of Zwolle (it must house workers from Amsterdam), we reached the Landal park. We cooked a nice spaghetti dinner and went for a family bike ride around the town of 't Loo. Eliot even rode on his bike.

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