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Well! we hadn't been in Utrecht very long before another old friend
of Anneke's, and her family, offered
us the fantastic opportunity to join them on a 3-day excursion in their own personal sailboat. We were still exhausted from a month of train travel, and I was having nasty bouts of hay fever, but we didn't want to pass up this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the northern waters of Holland. You see in the upper map, Holland, with Friesland the green spot up north. Friesland has its own language and national identity, although it is now a part of the Netherlands. We took the boat from the Fries town Heeg (Heech in Fries), out across the Ijsel Meer, this body of water,
which used to be the Zuider Zee (South Sea), before it was closed off by the Afsluitdijk (Closing-off dike). We sailed across to this little old town called Enkhuizen, where we saw museums depicting the way the Dutch lived long ago, and how they fought their age-old battle against the Sea.
That's me, at the front of our boat, sailing through some of the channels that cut through Friesland. Windmill in the background, of course.
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