After another slow start we start driving over to Spakenburg for a Saturday market. I end up on the wrong road, but I don't want to turn around. We ended up driving in a circle around Eemnes. Then out in the country past horses - both ridden and in the field, cows, and sheep and birds.
Linda was sure we were close to a ferry that we could take instead of heading back. We asked a couple of young women leading their horses down the road and they verified she was right and told us how to get there.
Down one narrow road and then one more. We are dodging lots of bikers with the river up on our left and the fields below us on the right. Yes, the river was up.
That's the river up on the other side of that bank. This is Holland.
Not too far down the road was Eemdijk and the ferry. You could only fit two vehicles but lots of bikes on the boat. It was pulled over to the other bank with a cable, so the captain collected the toll (2.40 euros even though we thought the sign said it would cost 6 euros) and chatted with passengers. 5 minutes. This is the same ferry that Kees and Joke took us this year before they left.
Another 10 minutes and we're in Spakenburg.
Besides shopping at the market, we intended to eat lunch there. It didn't look like we could get a beer to go, so we ordered fish and chips at a food truck and ate it on a bench in the shade. The sauce they gave us was very tasty.
We packed leftovers and headed down the street to a cafe where we could have a beer to wash down our lunch.
The two of us walked around a little more and Linda bought a pair of leggings which would prove to be too small when we got home.
We followed our noses to get out of town (we've been there at least once every year we've been in Holland) and get back to Soest pretty quickly.
Later I mow the yard and we eat our leftovers with a little white wine in the garden.
The day's weather had been perfect and we enjoyed all of it.
Sunday:
Wimbledon finals were on today but it took me some time to find it. I watched while Linda visited the neighbors. She took cookies (stroopwafels) to Noor and Duco.
Then she went down to see Hans and Jose and invite them to go with us later this week to the tea garden at Eemnes. They kept her a long time and they decided on a date for visiting the botanical gardens in Utrecht instead. They had been wanting to do something with us.
We saw this last year. The high school graduates hang book bags from the flag poles on their houses. We have one on our block.
Linda is doing a great job taking care of Joke's orchid.
So, Federer lost - what a shame.
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