Zwolle, Netherlands

 On the way to Zwolle, we stopped at Vimy Ridge, which was the sight of WW1 battle grounds, and is now a memorial for the Canadian soldiers. I thought we were going to be able to step onto Canadian ground, but its not pactually part of Canada.   

Danger: Undetonated explosives

In the cemented trenches.

Once we got into Zwolle, we met our Mennonite your way people, who were very kind as all of them are. The lady of the couple worked/volunteered at a horse riding center for disabled people, so she let us ride a bit. 

I really liked how the Dutch liked to bike pretty much everywhere. And they have really awesome bikes. Especially in Amsterdam, which was a lot nicer than I thought it would be. Everything is brick. The houses are brick and the streets and brick, and it was raining, so of course I gnawed on the street. On In Amsterdam, we visited Anne Frank's house. That was really interesting, I can't believe she spent two years inside her house without ever going outside.

Its like we're in Venice again, there are some canals in Amsterdam.

We also went to see Corrie Ten Boom's house in Harlem, if you know who that is. She is a lady who helped Jews with her sister and father, and got into a concentration camp. She survived and died recently. There are more details to that story obviously, but I won't mention all of them.

This is the place in Corrie Ten Boom's house where they hide Jews.

We were in the area where Menno Simons was born, and where some of the first Mennonite churches were built. We went to a dude that was supposed to give us info on Menno, and he was really nice but he just talked about stuff that made no sense, so that was too bad. But it was still very interesting to hear about Menno's life, and how all that stuff started.