{"id":23814,"date":"2018-06-27T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=23814"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:39:04","slug":"needles-and-pins-and-woyww-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/needles-and-pins-and-woyww-473\/","title":{"rendered":"Needles and pins (and woyww #473)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodmorning lovely ones!
\nIt’s a sunny morning in the Netherlands, in fact, it has been sunny all week. My beloved and I took advantage of it by going for a long walk last weekend and I took my camera with me to show you another part of Middelburg.<\/p>\n

Before I come to that, here’s my ‘workdesk’ photo – my workdesk this week is the little table in the living room ’cause I’m still working on the ‘clothing’ for my son’s birthday (it’s going to be a jacket, he already knows that so I don’t spoil a thing by telling you…) that will get some\/a lot of Japanese embroidery (“Sashiko” – see last post<\/a>.) I ordered special Sashiko needles to work with and I’m in love with the Japanese packaging!<\/p>\n

WOYWW #473<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Oh, and that brown ‘thingie’ that looks like a piece of chocolate? That’s a leather thimble I made myself to protect my thumb. So I’m sitting in the living room stitching away while watching the World Cup Football on the television.<\/p>\n

However, one cannot sit inside all day so my beloved and I go out for walks sometimes. Last Sunday I took my camera with me – you may remember the photos of the ‘tourist trip<\/a>‘ I made through my little town a couple of weeks ago? A lot of you commented on the star-shaped ‘ring of canals’ around the town that could be seen on the arial photo.<\/p>\n

Here’s the photo again and I marked the route my beloved and I walked.<\/p>\n

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Yep, we walked all around the ‘star’. Before we start our walk at the ‘Bolwerk’ as it is called (Bastion –<\/em> the star shaped canal was dug to protect the city. More history about the town can be found here<\/a>) we walk through our neighbourhood to get there.<\/p>\n

I talked about the big church “Tall John” that stands a few steps from our appartment in a former post, but on the East side my home is protected by a church that I find even more beautiful than my tall friend… when I step out of the front door I can see it’s roof. See that, right in the middle of the photo? That’s the Oostkerk<\/strong><\/em> (Eastern church<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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To get to this church, we walk through the Spanjaardstraat<\/strong><\/em>, a historical street with beautiful houses and monuments. (The Eastern Church looms already in the distance.)<\/p>\n

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We take a small detour and walk through the Verwerijstraat<\/strong><\/em> to approach the church from the other side.<\/p>\n

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… and here it is in it’s full glory, my fave building of this town, the Oostkerk<\/em>. <\/strong>Where tall John behaves as a vain young girl, flaunting her looks, the Eastern church is rooted and stands strong, like a big, broad protector. Is it strange to say that I ‘trust it more’…? (On this internet page<\/a> someone commented giving some nice, historical info on this church.)<\/p>\n

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I just find the Eastern church more ‘honest’…. look, there’s a skeleton sculpture above the door that reminds us of human mortality…<\/p>\n

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… there are more sculptures on it’s walls, showing different figures and shapes.
\nThis one shows all kinds of shells.<\/p>\n

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I wave ‘my big protector’ goodbye and with a few steps we stand on the star-shaped ‘bastion’ and start our walk along the water.
\n“Walking the star” takes about an hour and I took several photos along the way.<\/p>\n

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There’s a mill standing on the bastion (if fact, there’s two windmills on the bastion, this one is called Seismolen<\/strong><\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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I love those little houses on the water, there are several floating in the canal and it’s home to the ducks.<\/p>\n

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Coming at the end of the bastion we cross the city centre to get home again and yes, there’s “the vain lady, flaunting her looks” Tall John<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The weather today is as nice as on the photos and I’m going to settle with needle and thread in the easy chair on the balcony. I wish you all a day as beautiful as mine!<\/p>\n

Edited August 2018<\/strong>: I received a lovely email from ‘Bookmundi’ who got inspired by my ‘tourist blogposts’ to write\u00a0an awesome guide (CLICK)<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>on the Netherlands, it’s worth a read if you’re planning to visit The Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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