The museum is a collection of homes and businesses from the last 100-150 years from around the area. It was so interesting to see how people lived and the influence of fishing on so much of what they did. They even had people working in some of the businesses like the cleaners, sail making, barrel making, etc. Many of them spoke some English and were able to teach us a lot. It was a beautiful museum.
After we had a nice lunch there and looked around a bit more we went to the house of one of John's friends, Jan. Jan (you pronounce it "yawn") gives walking tours of the town and knows so much about the history of everything. He has health problems and rides on an e-bike. It was so incredibly interesting and we learned so much about the country.
When we finished with the tour we sat out on a terrace and had a few drinks and watched people. John seems to know everyone so it was quite entertaining. When Vicky got off work she met us and the four of us went to a nice dinner. It was a great chance to get to know each other a bit better considering we had only spent a few hours together in the previous times we have been together. We finished the night at The Dubliner, a pub where John plays sometimes and they know the owner. There were two young guys playing guitar and singing and it was such a nice, relaxing end to the day.
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| We were too late for tulip season but this is a nursery that has some fields of experimental flowers growing |
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| Original city gate to Enkhuizen |
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| Enkhuizen is along the Ijsomeer lake which was part of the North Sea before it was dijked so ships and fishing huge |
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| Me and John on the boat to the museum |
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| One of the streets in the museum |
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| Bedchambers from the lat 1800/early 1900's with Vince as a reference for how tiny they were |
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| Oma has some ice skates like those |
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| One of the harbors |
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| Museum |
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| Coal operated cleaners where they would have done the wealthy people's laundry in the early 1900's |
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| Display of how the books at the bank used to work |
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| A mill at the museum |
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| Pharmacy |
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| All of the pharmacies (even present day because we saw one in Amsterdam) have these "Moore's Heads" outside with their mouths open. No one could tell us why but my theory is that you have to say "ahh" when you go to the doctor??? |
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| Cheese!!!! (this is fake because it's a museum but store like this really exist) |
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| Home of a wealthy paint distributor, hence the colorful walls |
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| Where they made sails for the ships. The man working here with the museum has an actual job of making replacement sails for the old ships by hand. |
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| An old barber shop - that's what Joop used to do but he was a few years later than this one. |
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| Barrel maker (I can't remember the official name right now) - this guy has a degree in political science or something and then quit and bought a farm. Now he's in training to learn how to make barrels and things that he can use on the farm. |
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| Old cameras |
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| An old school house - reenacting how we met |
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| The home of the man who started the Dutch East (or West??) Indies Trading company. Enkhuizen was the biggest port in the world for a while. |
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| The prison |
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| Original carvings on the prison walls |
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| Beautiful city hall |
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| One of the three big churches - none of them function as churches anymore but they have all been preserve and are used for musical performances and things like that now |
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| This corner building used to be Joop's barber shop |
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| Neat streets in Enkhuizen |
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| In the park |
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| Hey Derkat you pronounce it "snook" |
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| The bridge is open to let the ships into the canals or polders |
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| Here's Jan on his bike |
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| Walking in Enkhuizen |
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| Heineken Extra Cold served at zero degrees |
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| The Dubliner for after dinner drinks and music |
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