Easter sunday clocks changed here too

Driving northwards and along this long sea dyke. 
I'm staying in Bolsward but took a trip around south Friesland where the grass is amazing and the cattle sheds huge
They are attached to the square farm houses with their pyramid rooves. The soft soil necessitated a different construction from our stone or brick buildings with concrete foundations.
There is also a different language I here

This glass roofed church is in. Bolsward. It is hundreds of years old but when it burnt down and was left a ruin it was bought and restored though the glass roof only went on a few years ago.
This is a typical small town on canals
The odd looking basket thing is actually a nest for ducks I think.
Staying in an old orphanage with a pretty orchard in a vast iron bed in a suite of rooms as the only ground floor one and a huge walk on shower.

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