All towns are double named in Friesland. Dutch and Friesan. The lady in the library spoke Friesan as her first language and most Dutch can’t understand a word of it. It’s a 45km round trip to Drachten coming home a different way.
This town is so pretty. Rows and rows of canals and a lovely town centre. It’s part of the Friesland lake area but on a limb so doesn’t get a lot of through traffic
It’s very quiet today as at least half the shops are closed Monday’s .
Luckily for me the barbers shop was open because it’s getting very hot. 
We were home by 2 so I went for a walk while it was quiet. I came across this memorial to the local Jews sent from here to death camps. I had to go to the library for a translation and came away with a lot more information than the museum had.
May we never forget O Israel . Your shine, your downfall and your cruel destruction. He is looking down on us guarding, as a witness.. Your eternal sign of god. David’s star
I found it extraordinary that the museum didn’t have a thing on the occupation during the war, about the Jews deportation and nothing about a local resistance fighter 
Gerk Numan. The lifting bridge is named after him but no accompanying story to say he was executed on the bridge just as the war was ending. Just this little plaque. The helpful librarian also told me about the ‘Stolpersteine’ ( tumbling stones). A German artist has gone to enormous lengths to place a hand made brass plaque (stones ) with the name of the Jews who owned and lived in the shop of which the stone was outside.
Yes I know it’s depressing but history is meant to keep the bad memories alive as well as the good ones. Gunter Denmig is the artists name and he has placed these stones outside every Jews house throughout Europe . Tens of thousands of them.
The evenings are the best time to get out and walk the streets when it’s cooled down . You can really appreciate the old architecture. This old building was a surveyors judging by the tools on its facade. 1762. The building next door is much newer at 1793 !
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