Inside Sebaldeburen Windmill there were several windmill related displays.

Models of windmills:-

Another set of windmill models had electrically driven sails:-

Cutaway model:-

Collectables:-

Hanging embroidery depicting various Dutch windmills. (Hanging embroideries like this seem to be a Dutch thing):-

Pictures of windmills:-

Windmill shaft. Note thatch on walls:-

Apparatus:-

Steps. We would call this a ladder really, but stairs in Dutch houses tend to be very steep:-

One of the walls on the upper floor had a couple of paintings of the windmill:-

View from window:-

And as a plus here’s a video of the outflow into the canal:-

I posted photos of the windmill’s exterior here.

Internal machinery:-

Again this video is on its side:-

There’s a glass “window” in the windmill’s floor so that you can see the water flowing under it:-

Video. The flow is quite noisy:-

There were live cams round the windmill with their feeds displayed on a screen:-

The Netherlands are famous for windmills but though we had been in that country several times we hadn’t actually visited a windmill there till last June. It was the one at Sebaldeburen in Groningen Province. There was some kind of open day on so we could see inside.

There is a model of the windmill just at the end of the drive:-

In this photo the operator is adjusting the angle the windmill makes with the wind to maximise efficiency. Windmill model to right:-

The windmill lifts water from a ditch (to the left in background) into a canal 1½ metres higher (to the right) by means of an Archimedes screw. A full size model of the screw is at left of photo.

The canal:-

This is the Archimedes screw in operation:-

Windmill turning. For some reason the video is turned by 90 degrees:-

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:-

Hindeloopen is a town/village on the IJselmeer (formerly known as the Zuiderzee) in The Netherlands. It is one of the eleven “cities” of the Elfstedentocht.

IJselmeer from seadyke at Hindeloopen:-

A Hindeloopen Street to left of above:-

Going round to the right leads to the harbour and this Lifeboat House. KNRM is the Dutch eqivalent of the RNLI:-

Old lifeboat on slipway down to harbour:-

Moving on round the road is this canal bridge and bell tower:-

View along canal from bridge above:-

Workum is another of the eleven cities known as the Elfstedentocht, in Friesland, The Netherlands, but it’s more of a village really.

The tower in Workum:-

It s Elfstedentocht Fountain is in the form of two stylised rampant lions:-

The pond area to the left above:-

The canal just behind with small road bridge centre and wooden bridge to right:-

In June last year we visited The Netherlands again. One of the day trips we took was to Dokkum, in Friesland.

On the way in to the town fom the car park, along the canal, I spotted this house (in that Dutch fashion known as De Stijl?) which is so Art Deco looking:-

Further on was this scene which is so Dutch it’s almost a cliché, canal and windmill – with lovely bridge added in:-

The Town House in Dokkum has a carillon tower:-

Town House:-

A sculpture in the twon:-

Side view:-

Another almost deco building:-

Dokkum is one of Friesland’s eleven cities between which an ice-skating race known as the Elfstedentocht used to take place when there was ice on the canals. I suspect it’s extremely unlikely ever to be held again as the winters are no longer cold enough long enough for any ice to be safe to skate on. In honour of that history, though, the canal side benches in Dokkum are in the shape of an ice skate:-

In 2018 eleven artists designed a fountain each for the eleven cities. Dokkum’s is known as the Ice Fountain:-

Ice Fountain information:-

Closer views of the Airborne Monument, Oosterbeek, the Netherlands.

Details on base:-

British poppy wreaths and Dutch wreaths~:-