Harlingen, end of the dike trip and departure to Franeker
On the way to Harlingen, a farm road did not always lead directly along the dike, in between I was also guided to the next village. The huge areas of reclaimed land are very fertile. The mud, as the mud is called here and in which one sinks at low tide in places ankle- to almost knee-deep, is full of nutrients. The most cultivated plant of the estates are white flowering potatoes. A field with pink potatoes in front of the village Nes just before Wierum I found especially pretty.
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Another village I passed on the way to Harlingen, Oudebildtzijl, was the first time I felt like in Holland. Canals, closable by lock gates and boats in front of cozy houses, these pictures I had actually made of Holland and here they came true. Stones are rare here, there are no rocky outcrops and the silt does not contain any stones. So you burn bricks. The bricks are used everywhere, for house building, lock building, road building. The bricklayers are true masters of their trade. The very precisely laid brick roads stretch for kilometers.
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