Finally, it
was time to visit Björn again! We got a 50€ return ticket from EasyJet and
arrived on Friday in Schiphol. After a 40 min ride with the Bus 300, we arrived
in beautiful Haarlem city center. It has really a very nice historic city Centre
with small streets and small houses, which are usually very old. Björn for
example is living in a ~ 300-year-old tiny house, which was once used for horses
and now very nicely restored:
The city
has also a very old church from the 13th century in front of the
city market. The ground floor consists of graves, so you are really walking
about dead bodies or whatever is left from them! Most impressive is an old
Organ at one end of the church and the ancient ships, donated from the Dutch
captains many years ago.
The market
in front of the church is wonderful and you can buy of course cheese, sausages,
bread, etc. for a very good quality. Later we relaxed in a nice Pub and Shelly
talked the bartender into starting the old music machine:
We also
rented a little boat and cruised through the canals of Haarlem. There are
numerous bridges and they all open in different ways to let bigger ships
through.
Very nice!
Here are
some more impressions of this very nice city Centre:
Thanks
Björn for this wonderful weekend trip and good luck with visiting all 191
countries of the world! I think, he has traveled so far 132 of them…
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