You can feel summer coming to an end here. We still like to leave early but at 6.30 it’s still only getting light and there’s an Autumn nip in the air. 
There’s a ring of flood banks around the Dollart estuary that tells of earlier reclamation’s . Each with a set of boards ready to block out the sea
I find it fascinating the way the polders they built have increasingly pushed the sea back. On the rings inside the green line ( the original flood bank) you can see lines with a date on them telling the year it was built.
right to the present day giants with massive flood gates and pump houses
The sheep like to sleep on the path where it’s warm. I only wish they would walk to the side to crap though. It can get very messy.
Termunterzijl. We stopped for coffee by the bridge. The old harbour was formed when that stop gate was built in 1601. 
complete with fancy carvings to show how important it was at the time
Its all on smooth bike paths today. 
I stopped to watch this potatoe digger working. I remember when 6 people would stand on the back of the old diggers sorting them as they came up a Shute. me being one of them once. One man operates this fully automated machine and holds it in a hopper until the tractor and trailer turns up to take them to the shed
he then tips them into an automatic bin filler so another worker on a fork lift can take them away and stack them to dry. Nosy aren’t I 
Schildwolde. Of course there’s other uses for potatoe bins as well.
Slochteren. We have a really cute little Flat on the left side of the house. Geert was happy to bring his Prefect 100E out for a photo shoot and then took me for a tour in it. My brother had one of these
Our hosts Geert and Geesje. The nice thing about BnB s is getting to stay with nice people
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