Road Trip North-Holland

This weekend I went on another roadtrip with (from the left); Nicola, Joan, Ivan, Giovanni, Franceska and me.
On Saturday we went to Alkmaar, the Afsluitdijks and a couple of small towns in Friesland; Bolsward and Gaastmeer. We stayed over night on an island called Ameland, in a hostel among the dunes facing the North-Sea.

Alkmaar

The dikes



Bolsward

A guy shouting the latest news of the village
A church that had burned once, loosing everything but the frame; now it has been restored with a glass-roof, it was spectacular

Friesland
Summarized in windmills and cows

Ameland
Our Hostel

On Sunday we first checked out the island. It was small, flat and full of horses and sheep. Then we ferried back to the mainland, and visited the seal-park of Pieterburen

The seals have been saved from nets etc, so even if they don't look extremely happy, they're probably better of (and more alive) here.

Then we went to Groningen, which is quite nice but very dead on a Sunday.
The museum (closed, off course)

Shoes on a line (which seems quite common in Holland. I don't know why... But I'm really curious, so if anyone can provide information, please do so!)

The University

The Red Light District

We ended up in Assen, to have dinner. That's seriously a small town!! Nothing to see, really. But we were lucky with the restaurant; a rather shabby looking italian, which turned out to be great! We came back to Amsterdam around midnight.
From the trip I've learned that most of the dutch villages and contryside look exactly the same, some italian (since we were on a trip with 4 of them) and that I will definately eat Friesian Sugarbread again!