With only a few hours to spare today we returned to capital via Lelystad to visit a real sized sailing pirate ship and a few more of the countries major dykes and locks.
Being back in Amsterdam after a few days seeing the rest of the country makes you feel how unrepresentative Amsterdam is of the rest of the country. Im so glad we saw the real Netherlands as its such as interesting and different place to anywhere else in the world. Its also been so great that wherever we go all the locals speak English. In Germany a lot of people speak English, but here everyone does, even the oldies which has made travelling here a breeze.
The Houtribdijk dyke from Grootebroek to Lelystad only lets water out to the sea.
The Batavia shipyard in Ledystad where they were building a new old style 17th century sailing ship
There were a lot of people working here and we saw how all the parts of the ship were made. They workers were shaping the wood for the hull.
The impressive back of the finished ship
The climbing nets up to the lookout posts
It was really exciting going through each of the levels of the ship. There were little rooms and cubby holes everywhere. This is the second levels where the cannons were kept
The third level
On the main deck. Im surprised they could even drive these boats as they were so complicated and detailed
Thats one massive anchor
The reconstruction of the VOC (United Dutch India Company) ship.
This area of the city on the waterfront was full of shops and there was this massive whale which spurted water every few minutes
A cool sculpture of the end of one of the locks
A night out on the town in the red light district
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