Vollhave & Giethorn

 After a restless night, listening to the mopeds drive around town, we went down for breakfast. It was another great European breakfast with breads, fruit, meat, cheese, tea, juice, etc. there is also a big group, probably locals there for a day breakfast as they were all dressed in orange. Before breakfast, hostess showed us a back room, where apparently the first king of Holland had slept. It is now a dining room. There was a large picture that reminded me of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it actually turned out to be his brother. The woman told us that Napoleon Bonapart gave his brother a country, the Netherlands, so lived in this Palace for a while. After breakfast, we went for a walk and we followed the trail to the ruins, it really was not much of a ruin. It was just mostly one side from there. We walked downtown and who should we see but four young guys drinking beer sitting by their mopeds. We asked if they were responsible for last nights noise and they laughed, and Bradley said yes , they also told us they read the village of ghost. It was really funny to run into them and we couldn’t be too mad about the lost sleep because it was such a ridiculous tradition. We drove to and took a boat tour around Venice like village. It really is very beautiful as it was very green with the spring trees popping out in the thatched roofs on the houses sitting on small small islands among the canals. We got the feeling that this must be a rather expensive place to live. A attached roof cost €120 per square meter. Houses in the last two years have risen from an average cost of four00,000 to 600,000 euros. The village definitely depends on tourists. Apparently, centuries ago, people from the Mediterranean arrived in this area and discovered that the ground was made of peat. they dug out the Peat and  sold it to other Europeans and made a lot of money. The canals are no more than a meter deep. we then drove the car to North horn and parked and walked into town not realizing we could’ve actually parked closer. Our time ending and I’m still slow at walking from my fall so Scotty walked back to get the car and I walked slowly along the village, taking a few more pictures program the car to the airport and arrived at The beautiful Hilton located at the ship airport.