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The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria as well is the Wadden Sea. For centuries, it is from here that sea explorers, tax evaders, sturdy Arctic whalers, self-righteous women, pirates, privateers, and other vagabonds have come. An archipelago that the Sea Beggars and the earliest trouser-wearing women call home. Even the first atheist of modern times comes from this archipel

On 25 March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was climbing toward its second peak. Uncertainty surrounded how destructive it would prove in the long term. How many family members and loved ones would it claim? It was a force of chaos and destruction that confronted us with the limits of our engineered world. Some declared it a punishment from God. Others saw it as Nature exacting a price for humanity's destruction of the planet. Still others denied its severity, convinced that "the

It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was published in New York in 1865. It is about poor, 15-year-old Hans and his sister, Gretel. Gretel wins the Silver Skates, the prize for winning an ice skating race. After that, everything turns out for the best, and the Brinkers are one big happy family. The book also contains the story of the Hero of Haarlem. It is the world-famous story of

Nordfriesland, or North Frisia, forms the western coastal and island zone of the cultural region of Schleswig. Extending from the Danish town of Tønder in the north to the River Eider in the south, it consists of a broad maritime strip together with fifteen offshore islands and Halligen, or Hallig-islands. It is here that a distinctive bonfire celebration takes place every year on 21 February. Much speculation surrounds the (pagan) origins of these large communal fires and th

This is the story of the land reclaimed from the former Middelzee—a shallow inland sea that once split the present-day province of Friesland in two, separating the ancient pagus Westrachia (modern district Westergo) from pagus Austrachia (modern district Oostergo). The name Middelzee literally means 'middle sea.' Closing this watery rift took centuries. Through a succession of smaller and larger embankments—continuing into the early seventeenth century—new land was steadil

21 August 1930, Wieringermeer in the province of Noord Holland. The reclamation of just another piece of the Zuiderzee 'southern sea' was completed. A wooded area, when it was still land, that was called Creilerwoud. Land lost to the sea eight centuries ago during the most destructive All Saints' Flood in the year 1170. The embanked land—or polder in the Dutch language—is now being named Wieringermeerpolder instead of Creilerwoud. A few years after the reclamation, settlers f

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get down and dirty. Nope, this article is not about lesbians . This dyke is not made of flesh and bones, but it is made of dirt, dung and, ok probably ' bones '. This dyke is actually an old Route 66 . A dyke is an artificial slope to regulate water levels, also called levee in American English. This particular dyke is old. Very old. It has been build roughly between 1000 and 1300 AD. Yes, sure, there are dikes dating back from around 0 A