Wednesday 9 May 2012
Vollendam was the seaside town Deborah and Paulo took us to for eel sandwiches and bitter ballens. We found a humorous dentist and patient statue that we just HAD to get for Herman at one of the shops and it turned out he loved it and said he would put it in his office. Walking around Nicole got extremely close to a great blue heron (her aunt Monica’s favorite animal totem) and got some close ups of it’s face and “pony tail”. The town had some wonderful singers who became famous but still chose to live there. There was a longstanding reputation for good house cleaners that came from there and in the old days, fish (actually fish were still caught, especially eel.) It was a very charming town and afterwards we drove to a farmers market Deborah had heard of for groceries.
Dinner was delicious pasta with Bolognese sauce made by Deborah whose father had been an opera singer brought up in Italy hence the culinary prowess with an Italian meal. We chatted and then some went to bed early while others stayed up all night. Guess who?!
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| Folks getting the scum eaten off their feet by little fish. They have paid for this experience. |
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| At the organic local market |
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| Herman opening a gift we bought him |
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