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Today we're in Giethoorn, which is in the Netherlands.
in the province of Overijssel. Giethoorn directly translates into 'goat horn',
which is a real unique name for a town and it's a very unique town or village. It's a
village that's much like Venice was, but on a smaller scale and a much less developed
scale. Or what we would actually imagine Venice to
have been in its early years. Exactly, yea, exactly.
And what you'll see is, you'll see these little islands and a lot of times these islands will
have maybe one house, or two or three houses on these little islands. And then there's
canals and then bridges connect these islands together.
Wooden bridges. Very narrow; one or two people walking together could go over, but not much
more than that. Yea, not like the brick or stone bridges in
Venice. But, it's a very small rural place with a lot of land and marsh land around.
Farm land, too. I've seen livestock and farm animals.
Lots of geese, we saw obviously some goats, some sheep, and cows. We saw a lot of different
things there. But, it's a really unique place, and very popular especially amongst the Asian
tourists. We saw a lot of Asian tourists there. We actually saw some of the menu boards translated
into what I've read was Mandarin Chinese. So, it's a really unique place. It's definitely
worth seeing. Now, if you're from the U.S., I'd probably say this is not worth seeing
because it's a little out of the way. You can't get here easily with public transportation
and there's other places I'd recommend people see. I'd definitely recommend people see Zaanse
Schans and Amsterdam and maybe Delft. And this is definitely out of the way to visit.
But, if you are here and living in Europe. Let's say you live in the Netherlands or you
live in Germany or in Belgium or anywhere around here and you're in this area of the
country, I'd highly recommend swinging by. It's an interesting place to see.
It definitely is, and if the weather is nice and it's a nice beautiful day, this is a good
place to visit. And just the style of architecture was different.
Quite a few of the houses have a thatched roof, which is not something you see typically
across the country. Well, what's interesting is there was actually
one house being repaired and they were actually remvoing the thatch-work. And, they had the
old spent material on a barge and they had the new material also on that barge. You could
see for construction purposes they still use boats, they rely on water, to get their heavier
construction material around. Now most of the time now it seems like the boats are mainly
used for the tourists and you can rent a boat; you can rent an electric boat, or a kayak,
a canoe as well, but you could also ride boats as well; there are tour boats that go around.
So that's definitely an interesting way to ride and get around town.
But, it's a real nice place to visit and we'd definitely recommend people swing by.
But you also went to another community nearby, Dwarsgracht, 3 kilometers away.
It's very similar; the only difference is there's not as many tourists there. It's more
set up on bike paths, so there's a bike path coming in and out of it and I saw people flying
over that bridge. And the bridges don't necessarily go to individual houses like they go in Giethoorn.
They just cross over the canal. So if you could imagine this would be more like the
streets,instead of being paved roads, they'd actually be the canals, and you'd have houses
on both sides of these canals with their own sidewalks for walking through. So that's the
little bit difference, but the rest of it is somewhat similar, but smaller with less
tourists. Ok.
But, anyway, that's it for today. Thanks for joining us.
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