A Holiday in Hoorn 28 July onwards

Our first evening , July 28, in Hoorn began with another “Cheese Market”, in the town square, which was roped off to provide an arena for the hundreds of eager tourists (including ourselves).

Family fun

A Dutch Treat

 This version, however, was just pure entertainment, family style, with rides for the kiddies, cheese samples for the gourmets, a horse and cart for “authenticity”, and pretty girls in costume to add colour and photogenics. 

Later, we enjoyed the last of the twilight on the balcony of the Yacht Club, and decided to prolong our stay. 

The cheesemaster adjudicates

Which cafe next?

Friday 29th, well rested after a good sleep and a slow morning, the town was a bit quieter, as we observed from the café in the main square.

The shops and the sales occupied the crew quite satisfactorily for a while, and the skipper had a mooch around the harbour, the pleasant surprise of the  park behind the club, and the anchorage in the pre-harbour. 

WSV Hoorn balcony

The anchorage, Hoorn

 It is amazing , with just a few weeks of practice, just how easy it becomes to while away an entire afternoon in the simple enjoyment of  gentle relaxation, and this blog’s policy is to recommend more practice in pursuit of  perfection in the art.

 In the evening, it was “showtime”, and the saloon was re-arranged into cinema format, for the viewing of a couple of DVDs.  But which DVD?  No doubt, some of our readers (assuming there is more than one?) will have noticed that the free DVDs from the “Daily Mail”, or “The Times” can breed in a corner if left undisturbed, and that they are incredibly difficult to throw out (“in case we ever get desperate”). Well, we passed over a couple of Catherine Cooksons (but still didn’t  dump them), and we watched “La Dolce Vita”, in all its 3rd-generation copy fuzziness, as well as an early episode of  “Fools and Horses”. (There was no need to be desperate, as we had lots of good films still unwatched - but the clutter has to be attacked somehow).