Give it up, Ronnie.

Then we went to the old trades fair. This guy is shoeing horses.

This guy is demonstrating a machine that makes barbed wire.

These guys are threshing wheat.

These ladies are dressed old-style. And yes, that's metal under her lace cap.

Laundry day. Even today, the Dutch aren't big on electric dryers for environmental reasons... I haven't had one since I left the US.

This guy is weaving kitchen tea-towels.

Some folks just want to have fun.

This woman is practicing as a knight.

She's got to get her lance through that ring.

Traditionally, wooden floors were kept clean by spreading sand, which soaked up the grease and dirt. For festive occasions, these sand designs were created on the floors, to be spread by the visitors' shoes. Lots of bars still use sand on the floor today.

Smoked eel.

This guy is demonstrating how thatched roofs are made.

This woman is beginning a basket from reeds she cut and dried.

This guy is making a musical instrument.

Here's a new trade... someone's been making Dutch klompen for Barbie.

And this is what's known as classic Dutch Oom-pah.

Eventually, we went looking for another hunebed.

And another one... we think this is a baby hunebed.

it's good to go HOME

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