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#giethoorn
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It is so peaceful, so different and has such simple beauty that it hardly seems real - gently gliding along small canals past old but pretty thatched-roof farmhouses.
You can turn down a “side street” (another small canal) and drift under a wooden bridge where an elderly resident may be strolling over to see a neighbor. No this is not Venice, or Amsterdam. It is the Giethoorn village in Netherlands.
It is too quiet, too serene and remote. It is so calm that its nickname of the “Dutch Venice” may give a false impression of size and crowds and commercialism.
Here in Netherlands’s water village of Giethoorn the loudest sound you can normally hear is the quacking of a duck or the noise made by other birds.
Giethoorn is located in the province of Overijssel in the east of the Netherlands, a green and still area.
It is at the centre of Overijssel’s canal system. Indeed, the little village is so dependent on its waterways, many of the houses cannot be reached by road. When the postman delivers the mail he travels by punt.