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Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 5 km southwest of Steenwijk.
Giethoorn used to be a carfree town known in the Netherlands as "Venice of the North" or "Venice of the Netherlands". It became locally famous, especially after 1958, when the Dutch film maker Bert Haanstra made his famous comedy "Fanfare" there. In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals. The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat unearthing.
Giethoorn was founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230.Giethoorn was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became part of Brederwiede
Mercedes Benz Vito's from the VOA (Traffic and Accident Analyses and Technical Support), region Gelderland Midden/Zuid.
Europe - Holland / Giethoorn
Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 5 km southwest of Steenwijk.
Giethoorn used to be a carfree town known in the Netherlands as "Venice of the North" or "Venice of the Netherlands". It became locally famous, especially after 1958, when the Dutch film maker Bert Haanstra made his famous comedy "Fanfare" there. In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals. The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat unearthing.
Giethoorn was founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230.Giethoorn was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became part of Brederwiede
Slightly edited random shot of Amsterdam. Taken with my HTC Desire using the Camera360 Android app. Some added contrast and saturation.
Yesterday was such a perfect, lovely day for me that I almost forgot that it was Friday the 13th, I took lots of wicked reflection pictures, got plenty of things done, talked to nice people, spend some quality time biking through the best city in the world, had delicious food and watched some really nice movies. Overall a very cool day that showed me some easy-going pleasures and convinced me once again that this special day does not need to be a bad one, I even bought a lotterly ticket, just to be on the safe side, because it felt like such a lovely day, wish me luck, I need the money, lol :D
Have a wicked weekend!
Holland Brook winds lazily through the low rolling countryside of northeast Essex, England. This is an old watermeadow, a form of land management which started around the 15th century and carried on into the 19th century involving optimising land irrigation through the diversion and channeling of natural rivers, brooks and streams to help drain the marshy lowlands and water the higher fields and meadows. This watermead is now derelict and Holland Brook has returned more to its natural state but still feeds the agricultural land it divides...as is evident by the lush greenery and breaks of willow trees seen in the landscape surrounding it. Modern farmers still dig and maintain irrigation canals from the brook to provide watering places for grazing sheep, cattle and horses.Footpaths and byways are allowed through the land, and canoeists and kayakers can be seen paddling the waters on weekends and in good weather. A landscape that benefits everyone, old watermeadows are found in river valleys around Essex and the east of England.
Dutch Flat, established around 1851 as a California Gold Rush mining camp high on the Bear River, was named after German brothers Joseph and Charles Dorbach, who set up a general store and way station. Unlike most of the Gold Rush era towns in the state, Dutch Flat had never suffered a devastating fire that wiped out most of its downtown (though the First Chinatown burned down in Sept 10, 1887 and in 1898 several public buildings burned down, both suspected to be from arson). Consequently the small downtown seen here has several buildings dating from the early 1850s.
As the first large town to the West of Emigrant Gap, Dutch Flat became the site of surveying expeditions by Theodore Judah of the Central Pacific Railroad for the final Transcontinental route. Enthusiastically pushed by locals, the route East was mapped to indeed pass by the town. Many Californians vocally opposed the "Great Dutch Flat Swindle", thinking the route was impassible and that the rail lines would stop at the town and force travelers to cross over the Sierras by company stagecoaches, but the First Transcontinental Railroad indeed came by, the construction work making Dutch Flat one of the largest cities in the state in the 1860s, with a population of 6000, 3500 Chinese. However as the railroads went further East, Dutch Flat began to decline in importance.
Dutch Flat, California