Despite having a lovely mooring, sunshine in the cockpit, wind from the bow and baby grebes to watch, we decided to head an hour down the river to Oudewater. The oldest incorporated village in the Netherlands I think. 750 years a proud local told me. By Catalan standards, not that old, but Catalunya is made from rock and sunshine. There's been habitation since neolithic times and evidence of it. We're 6 meters below sea level here. We kind if don't understand how it's been around for that long, nor how the river we're on is a river not a canal.
Anyway, this is a lovely little town, a lot of older buildings, mostly early 1600s and a rooe kuseum, I'm super excited about this!!!!! There's also a museum which holds the witch scales. Women (and a few men) accused of being witches were made to sit on the scales, if they were too heavy to fly a broom, they weren't witches.
Not a single person was convicted or burnt here. Ever. I already like this place!!!!
Town hall, more photos tomorrow.
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