To start off, we took the ferry to Medemblik. The ferry is the 'Friesland', originally built as a ferry between Harlingen and Terschelling.
It was built in 1955 and is now called a 'museum boat', to which I take exception (I was born in 1951!) and hence the title of this blog post.
But I do remember travelling to Terschelling on the Friesland as a young boy, probably in the early 60's.....
What was interesting is that you have a very different view from the top deck of this boat than from Onbekommerd, a few meters above the waterline.
This is the Buitenhaven in Enkhuizen, if you look very carefully you can see Onbekommerd too.
The next part of the trip is on the steam train from Medemblik to Hoorn. It appears this is run by a bunch of middle-aged men (well, at the top end of middle age maybe ..... ;-), 'playing train'. There is an engine driver of course, a stoker shovelling the coal, someone who gets of the train at unguarded level crossings to stop the road traffic with a red flag and a conductor to clip the tickets. And at each of the four stations where you stop, there is a station master with a red cap!
The last part of the trip was a bit of an anticlimax: by Dutch railways back from Hoorn to Enkhuizen (but at least it was on time!)
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