We stayed at a new marina just outside the town center. Looking back, that was a mistake. We should always try to stay tied along the wall in the town centers, the same places where ships have docked for centuries.

Part of the fun in each new town is shopping for food. After almost 20 years of rarely cooking at home, now we make almost all our meals on board and it's become something that we anticipate and enjoy. Each town has different choices and quality of items, so we decide what our meals will be when we are in the market. Jim likes cooking whatever it is in the wok and serving it with steamed rice.

Bread anywhere is pretty darn good. Unlike America it's always bought fresh and without preservatives. We haven't had to learn how to bake that on board yet. Someday we'll have to....

Katie finds it easy to make friends wherever we go

	. The highlight of Enkhuizen is the Open Air Museum. In the 1930's, when the Zuiderzee was being closed off from the North Sea to form the Isselmeer, it not only threatened the livelihood of the fishing villages but also the buildings. Before this happened many were dismantled (or even shipped standing on pontoons) and rebuilt in Enkhuizen. Today there are 130 buildings along streets and canals giving a view of life in the late 1800's and the early 1900's.   The Indoor Museum is located in the Peperhuis, once the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. There is a full hall of old ships and many rooms filled with 700 years of history.

Our original plan was to stop in Medemblik and other towns in the Isselmeer but we decided that we should try to get to the Waddenzee and visit one of the islands in the north of the country so we set sail in poor visibility for Den Oever, about 20 miles away.