This years trips! Volendam!

It's always amazing to get away from the daily life and see something new or at least something else than the same 4 walls of your own home! With Covid, it's hard to do many things but going away in your own country is still a fun thing to do!

My partner found a great weekend trip for a even better price! Together with 2 friends, also a couple, we packed the car and drove to Volendam! Friday till Monday and I really enjoyed it!

Everything was closed! No open shops, no restaurants to eat, and the swimming pool was also closed! But let me tell you, we had a marvelous weekend! We took nice walks to nearby spots and my partner and I also did a lot of geo caching in and around Volendam and because of that we saw wonderful spots where we normally would have never been!

We cooked in the kitchen, ordered food online from Van Der Valk and let me tell you, I have never eaten anything better than that snitsel! Of course we all made sure to stay true to the restrictions that come with Covid but we still managed to really get away and have a fun time!

Above you see the view we had from our building! We had the second and third floor! It was clean and big enough for at least 8 persons lol!

Here you see how the building looked! Build in the same style of mostly the whole toerist parts of Volendam! We had the second and third floor of the house right next to the stairs!

On day one we found a sad duck! People walked past him like it was normal but I saw right away that his leg and wing were badly broken and with bad I mean really bad! Someone who had already been at the parc for a few days said, she had seen the sad duck for 3 days now! Wow! She had no clue that she broke my heart at that moment! I picked up my phone and called the animal ambulance service. Within an hour there were three amzing females trying to catch a duck! They were honest and told me what I already knew, sad duck will not make it! But, at least he would be taken out of his suffering! Being close up showed indeed how badly he was wounded! I do for love of everything holy, NOT understand how people can let animals suffer and just shrug their shoulders! I did not take pictures of the duck nor do I wish I had. I just wanted him taken care off!

With our friends we took a nice walk on the dyke next to the Gouw zee! It was a tad cold but so amazing! We saw wild pheasants who kept escaping before we could take pictures! To me, walking on the dyke felt so free and I was able to forget all the covid trouble for an hour!

I had a great time and I am already looking forward to my next trip in 4 weeks!