On one of our previous visits to the Netherlands the good lady had, in a shop, admired a hanging embroidery featuring the eleven “cities” of the Elfstedentocht, five of which we subsequently visited last year. It has since been hanging in our home.

The eleven cities are from top: (coat of arms of Friesland,) Leeuwarden, Bolsward, Sloten, Hindeloopen, IJlst, Workum, Dokkum, Franeker, Stavoren, Harlingen and Sneek. I have recently posted photos of the italicised ones and we went to Sneek in 2017. Five still to go then.

We visited four of the Elfstedentocht “cities” of Friesland in one day. Stavoren was the third of them.

Church of St Nicholas. The church is at the end of a short street off the main street.

A canal at Stavoren:-

One of the buildings:-

Its Elfstedentocht fountain is in the form of a fish:-

Not very prepossessing but striking:-