Welcome to Friesland

Let’s visit our neighbors! In Leeuwarden, the capital city of the Dutch province of Friesland which is located in the northern part of the country, we celebrated the beginning of the weekend by dining in a snugly restaurant. 

At 3 a.m. – so in the middle of the night – we woke up in order to get to the coast of the Wadden Sea for mudflat hiking. With the aid of a time table mudflat hikers use a period of low water to walk and wade on the watershed of the mudflats. It was completely dark when we started and with each slippery step in the mud of low tide we got dirtier. After a while we could watch the sunrise over the ebbed sea. People got stuck, fell down, or got completely wet while crossing some small river like currents. It was huge fun.
After a couple of hours (maybe 4) we reached Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands that consists mostly of sand dunes. There we hiked to the other side of the island and got picked up by a tractor which brought us to the next village where we enjoyed our sweet breakfast before we started our bicycle tour. With the ferry we went back to the mainland. The rest of the weekend got filled by having a nice dinner, listening to international musicians we've invited, kayaking as well as having a picnic with barbecue at a river.
What a weekend!