Burghsluis

Whist on our way to Burghsluis yesterday, we contacted our friends Jan Edu and his wife Manon. Jan Edu and I sailed Europe dinghies in the distant past and on two occasions I joined him with a bunch of students on a skiing trip to Adelboden where his family had a house.
We arranged that he would collect us from the harbour for a meal at their house nearby. We did not know about the existence of the 'Oosterscheldekreeft', a lobster which is caught in the part of the Delta where we are. But now we know all about these creatures:





Jan Edu had organised five of them to be eaten by us (including his daughter Martine, who is a doctor working in nearby Goes). It was a most memorable meal.






We decided to spend another day in Burghsluis, it is a nice, small and quiet harbour. The weather was sunny (but very cold) and it was blowing quite hard, about 20 knots.




The plan was to have mussels at the restaurant on the harbour, but it appears that fresh mussels are out of season until June (or so the restaurant manager told us). So we had different fish instead.

Tomorrow the plan is to leave early and return to Willemstad. We need to commence the trip 'back North' so that we are back in Monnickendam in time to catch our flight back to London on 25 April.

Location:Groenlandsweg,Burgh-Haamstede,The Netherlands