Week 30

Week 30 Kid's weekend again - a bit extended because of school holidays. I read a lot of Dutch History, mostly boating/naval stuff, I suppose... This photo caught my attention because Robin, Lyall and I had been there on Jacoba in 2018. Ter Apel was also the registration centre when we had our Golden Years of refugees. It is still the registration centre for refugees and has been much in the news lately due to overcrowding. ...and we go to or through Blokzijl quite a lot - usually eating at the pub by the lock. This story is about a statue that we have seen there - it stands next to a Michelin Star restaurant - which we have never been to! In the picturesque Overijssel town of Blokzijl, a small statue of a woman can be found. The statue is located near the Blokzijl lock. According to legend, a woman named Kaatje ran her own inn there in the early eighteenth century. Things went well for Kaatje for a long time, but things eventually turned out badly for her… After her mother...