Ben Oostdam's Autobiography:

SUMMER 1963 TOUR, p.2

Monday, July 1: On our first full day in Holland, my Dad, Principal of the Wilhelmina School in Amstelveen, took a vacation day to treat us to a car-tour to the other side of the IJ, i.e. north of Amsterdam ("l'eau dela de l'Y") starting at Durgerdam and Ransdorp, well-known for its tower - a landmark for our many father-and-son bike tours in the 1940's :


tower of Ransdorp, 1502
Durgerdam's
medal of honor 2001 winner:
Wil Sartorius 		"Van keel,
beladen met
een zwaan
van zilver,
houdende in
zijn
regterpoot
de
eendrachts-
pijlen
van goud"

It was fun to find on the WWW that one can now make bicycle tours to four churches
with 20 minute musical surprises on the hour! (13:00-16:00)


BLO fecit 20030218
Carla's jirje 		Other places we visited
(with 2003 WWW-links):
Oranjesluizen
Broek in Waterland
De Zaanse Molen (Mill)
Schellingwoude
Monnickendam
Marken & Volendam
harbors of the former
Zuyderzee; so, of course
 my Dad and I gorged
on smoked eel (paling)
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