Yesterday, we discovered there is a big music festival on Vlieland this coming weekend. It's possibly called "Into the wide open", but we're not 100% sure about that, although that was the text in big letters in the dunes when we left.
Quite a big and important event, it appears. Our neighbour in the harbour told us that 6000 tickets were made available on-line and that these were sold out in 3 minutes!
The ferries arriving yesterday (the ferry berth is about a KM from the yacht harbour but the ferry passes very close) were packed with people and there were additional ferry sailings too.
As all accommodation was booked out, there were a few 'sleep ships' in the harbour, where you usually find the 'charters' (see the previous blogpost). On these sleep ships, one can rent a bed for the night.
So quite a change from the usual harbour scene!
Around 6pm the 'sound checks' started. The concert venue was quite a distance away, but the electronics did their stuff.... But although we could hear it, it was not that bad!
The festival had nothing to do with us leaving today: that had been planned a few days ago. So after visiting the "Tromp's Huis" museum (small, but nice, especially their collection of old maps of Vlieland) and some last shopping, we left the harbour around 1 on the incoming tide. The visibility was not that great, but one could comfortably see the ships nearby and any marks needed for navigation. Plus we had the AIS and even the radar.
Not a breath of wind the whole way and before 4pm we were at Kornwerderzand. Going through the lock was effortless (although it was quite busy) and as we were quite tired we opted to stop in Makkum which is just a few miles beyond the lock.
So we are back on the IJsselmeer. We'll probably enter The Frisian inland waters tomorrow, either at Workum or Stavoren and take it from there.
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