Wunderschön! - Vacation in North Holland
Miles of dune landscapes, canals, windmills and picturesque villages - there are many reasons why Germans spend their vacations in North Holland. Tamina Kallert goes in search of the "Holland feeling" and asks the locals: Why do our neighbors allow a clear view into their living rooms and don't wear bicycle helmets? She learns how to make Gouda and experiences a vegetable auction in the "realm of 1,000 islands", just like in the old days. She climbs the lighthouse in Egmond and takes a look at the coastal region from high above, climbs the dune glacier in Schoorl and explores the sea and its inhabitants with the help of a trawl net.
Together with her WDR colleague Simone Sombecki, Tamina Kallert cycles through the UNESCO World Heritage Site Beemster Polder, a fertile, strictly geometric landscape that was still a lake in the 17th century and was drained with the help of 43 windmills. Climbing the "dune glacier" In the "Schoorlse Duinen" nature reserve, the widest dune area on the Dutch coast at five kilometers, Tamina Kallert learns that the Dutch are doing something unusual here: they are breaking up the dunes to let the sea flow into the land. Where trees were once planted to bind the sand, the land is now being renaturalized. The 51-metre-high "dune glacier" in Schoorl is also fun for the whole family to climb.
All cheese ... The cheese market in Alkmaar is a huge spectacle: 30,000 kilograms of cheese are displayed in long rows on the square, cheese carriers hurry through the rows and juggle the huge wheels of cheese on swaying stretchers. In a workshop, Tamina Kallert learns how Gouda is produced. And in the municipality of Beemster, where cheese production has a long tradition, she visits a cooperative that also supplies the king and his family. De Rijp and Twisk - excursions into the past In Holland's "Golden Age", the 17th century, many sailors, deep-sea fishermen and whalers lived in De Rijp. Today, the small village with its canals and historic houses with wooden gables looks like an open-air museum. Twisk with its listed, lovingly renovated gulf houses is also a lovely place to visit.
Broadcasting on 24th of January 2024 at 08.15pm, on 27th of January 2024 at 11.15am + on 29th of January 2024 at 06.15pm on ARD.alpha
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