My post today at Vision and Verb is about Finding Money and highlights this gevelsteen (gable stone) from this charming city:
De Tijd Vliegt = Time Flies
But first, the city. We were there for only two hours before heading home for the day. It's amazing what you can see in two hours...just like when you meet a friend for the first time and get the "picture" almost immediately.
Monnicken = Monks (who built the dam)
So all over the city you see the city emblem of a monk with his stick.
Smack-dab in city center you see the tall tower of the Speeltoren, a museum.
Right next door to it is the equally famous weighing house, De Waag (below).
This is Astrid's picture from her wide-angle lens.
Here you see both the Speeltoren and De Waag.
Right across the street from De Waag is the Café de Zwaan, where we ate our lunch.
I was more interested in the decor, I see, than in what we actually ate.
Then we were ready to walk around.
Now you know why this is one of those Dutch towns that depends on tourists!
Do you see how crooked the church door-facade is (top-left image)?
And how high that top-middle door is from the ground (in case of flooding)?
The bronze statue is De Palingroker (the eel smoker) in the Oude Haven (old harbor).
Speaking of the Oude Haven (old harbor)...
the town sits on the IJsselmeer in the municipality of Waterland. Exactly.
So all over the city you see the city emblem of a monk with his stick.
Right next door to it is the equally famous weighing house, De Waag (below).
This is Astrid's picture from her wide-angle lens.
Here you see both the Speeltoren and De Waag.
Right across the street from De Waag is the Café de Zwaan, where we ate our lunch.
I was more interested in the decor, I see, than in what we actually ate.
Now you know why this is one of those Dutch towns that depends on tourists!
Do you see how crooked the church door-facade is (top-left image)?
And how high that top-middle door is from the ground (in case of flooding)?
The bronze statue is De Palingroker (the eel smoker) in the Oude Haven (old harbor).
the town sits on the IJsselmeer in the municipality of Waterland. Exactly.
Now, getting back to my Vision and Verb post today on Finding Money. Of the 60+ gevelstenen (gable stones) in the town, which you can see here in the Dutch database, I found 33 (some of which are in the collages above):
That middle cow gevelsteen is from 1611!
See why I feel like I've hit the jackpot in towns like this!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Do I need to translate that Clothes make the man?
That middle cow gevelsteen is from 1611!
See why I feel like I've hit the jackpot in towns like this!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Speaking of hitting the jackpot, by the time we were finished that day, between Durgerdam and Monnickendam, with Marken in between, we also found a handful of weathervanes:
