We headed east out of Roden. I had always wanted to visit Bourtange since I read about the fortress city in the Lonely Planet guide to the Netherlands. Since our journey had already taken us so far north and east within Holland, we figured what's another 60 km! We looked for hunebudden that supposedly dotted highway N34. The stones weren't obvious from the highway, so we went off highway once to catch one of the hunebudden.
The prehistoric hunebudden were described as impressive groupings of sombre grey stones. Little is know about the builders, except that they took burying their dead very seriously. The arrangement of huge stones were each used to bury many people, along with their personal items. I was expecting something larger, but it was still neat to see one. Apparently, some stones are as heavy as 20,000 kg. We decided that our final destination would not be the hunebudden, but rather Bourtange.
The town we detoured at had many typical farm community houses, with great examples of interesting window decorations, as well as beautiful thick thatch roofs.
posted by Whitney @ 5:45 PM
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