ESN Trip to Volendam

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It was a nice Saturday, warm with fleeting glimpses of the sun. A friend and I were hurrying — unnecessarily quickly — from our dormitory to Centraal Station to meet up with a group of two dozen members of the Erasmus Student Network. A few hours of waiting and a bus ride later, the big group of us arrived in a town of 20,000 people. It’s called Volendam (full dam) because they built a big dam and filled it with clay. Everyone who was born there stayed there, more or less, and became fishermen.

We immediately started on a tour with a guy (a real Volendammer, born and raised) dressed in the traditional fishing outfit. The town was really cute and had a tiny city center.

I tried raw herring from a fish stand (very Dutch) for the first time. It was surprisingly good! And salty.

Then we dressed up in traditional costumes for fishermen and their wives and took a group photo.

All in all it was a great day, perfect for recharging my batteries from nonstop thesis work.

Undressing from our costumes in Volendam:

Party bus of some sporty guys drove by:

March 30, 2008 | Filed Under Miscellaneous Blogging, Video Blogs

 

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