Dokkum

The town is known as one of the 11 cities on our Eleven Cities skating tour, which used to be held every so many years in the winter, but with climate change the chance of it every happening again are nearly zero. The last one was in 1997! It was also were Bonifacius was killed when he was trying to Christianise the pagan Frisians.

Intermezzo XXII

September 11th 2023
Another long interval has passed since my last blog. Some of you might have thought I had stopped blogging, or, god forbid, stopped travelling. Neither is the case. It's more that I have yet to return to my old travel schedule. The pre-Covid one. I was travelling more then. It's taking some time to get back to that. But I haven't been idle. Since Saudi Arabia there was a Christmas and New Year spe ... read more

Europe » Netherlands » Gelderland » Gaanderen

The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more

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