Sunday July 10, 2016

By: Jud Niven

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands. Friesland has 646,092 inhabitants. The capital is Leeuwarden – from wikipedia

Sunday we got up after a decent sleep.  Jet-lag was still kinda messing with us, but we got ourselves organized and headed out on the road. We traveled north to the Province of Friesland, the birthplace of Gloria’s Mom and Dad-Harry and Tina. They have their own language and it is quite different from Dutch.  The first leg of the trip we stopped at the McDonald’s in Joure, which has become a bit of a tradition.

From there we headed to Nijland (pronounced N-eye-loan), Tina’s birthplace.  We visited the Church where a lot of Tina’s family are buried.  We also tried and were unsuccessful at finding a Geocache in the area.

It was a quick 10 km drive west to Harry’s hometown of Parrega and also did a little tour of his old house and his Church.  Their hometowns and every little village that we drive through just amazes us with how they look.  So old and so well cared for and SUCH narrow streets.  Everyone here has grown up with no fear of the very small window of error you’re afforded while driving down a small town road.

Now look north and west and head up another winding, narrow little road 10 kilometers to Makkum for the last town of today’s travels. We grabbed an icecream and then walked along the inlet.