View from a bridge

With its canals, historical buildings and narrow streets, Delft has pretty views. A boat trip on the canals is very popular among tourists.

Zandvoort love locks

Love locks along the boulevard in Zandvoort, with the North Sea in the background..

Apparently this small part of the km-long fence was especially prepared for the love padlocks with a concrete mesh, we didn't see them on the rest of the fence.

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Museum island

I'm standing on a footbridge here with the Groninger Museum on my right. The museum buildings are located on an island that connects the Central Station with the city centre. As you can see it's a colourful area, with a bright blue concrete walkway and blue fences. The photo with the stand up paddlers that I showed you yesterday was also taken from this spot, looking over the water to my right.

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See-through fence

I'm standing outside the Jacob Cramerpark here, next to the museum in Assen (see also my posts from last Monday and Tuesday). Somehow the hanging branches fit very well with the fence.

Prison Museum Veenhuizen

Last Sunday we visited the National Prison Museum in Veenhuizen. This village in the province of Drenthe was and is known for the prison complexes, of which one is still in use. The other one, named ´complex no. 2´ that you see on the photo, is now the National Prison Museum. From the 19th century the Department of Justice used it as a penal colony, so it was not an ´ordinary´ prison.

Veenhuizen used to be closed off to everyone but the inmates, and the staff and their families who lived in houses provided by the department. Since 1984 the village is freely accessible for all, which in fact doesn´t really seem that long ago..

Valkhof Park gate

The entrance to the Valkhof Park in Nijmegen has an impressive gate, a bridge, and fences on both sides.

Linking to Good Fences #21.

Lion heads

Detail of a fence with 2 lion heads, along one of the many canals in Bruges.

Four frogs and a cat

At the Garden Flower Show in Papenburg were lots of things to lighten up your garden, like these happy figures for your fence!

Linking to good fences #14

From the archives #21

U.K. (2011)

Entrance to a backgarden in a tiny village called Two Dales, in the Peak District.

lace patterned fence

Following up on yesterday's post about the Sint-Janshuismolen (the Saint-John's house mill) in Bruges, this is a detail of the fence with the pattern.

feet on a fence

A very nice fence with feet outside a shoe shop in Coevorden.


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view from a bridge

Leeuwarden city centre. And aren't these fences perfect to park you bicycle while you shop.. :)

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Ontvangershuis Assen

The 'ontvangershuis' (lit: 'reception house') is the oldest private residence in Assen and can be found at the Brink. Once it was one of the buildings of the Maria in Campis Monastery and has most likely been the home of a priest. Many years later the local authoroties used it as an office as well as a guesthouse for important guests.
The province of Drenthe bought the house in 1955, and soon after that it became a part of the Drents Museum. It still is today.

Look at the pretty fence on both sides of the steps leading to the front door. The fence once belonged to a manor in Zuidlaren.

  

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Reiderwolderpolder

View from the dike in the vast Reiderwolderpolder, in the far north east of the province Groningen. Fences divide the grounds for sheep.

Hikers are welcome, you cross the fence by stepping over it.

Linking to Friday's fences #109

hearts and anchors

During an evening walk last Summer through the small village of Hölick, located on the Swedish peninsula Hornslandet, we passed this house. Doesn't it have a amazing view on the Gulf of Bothnia, and doesn't it have a wonderful gate/fence with all these hearts and anchors!   :)

Linking to Friday's fences #106

museum garden fence

We found this eye catching ornamental fence at the back side of the garden belonging to Museum De Buitenplaats in Eelde, which we visited last Sunday. It's lovely, isn't it?

Linking to Friday's Fences #104.

Ruvallen

When we stayed in Funäsdalen in Sweden last August, this group of houses called 'Ruvallen' was a starting point of one of the hikes we made. In Swedish it is called a 'fäbod': a place were farmers and their families live during the summer to have their livestock graze common land. 

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Tijdens ons verblijf in Funäsdalen in Zweden afgelopen augustus, was dit groepje huizen met de naam 'Ruvallen' het startpunt van één van de wandelingen die we gemaakt hebben. In het Zweeds wordt dit 'fäbod' genoemd: een plek waar boeren met hun familie tijdens de zomer wonen om hun vee te laten grazen op een gemeenschappelijke weide.

These kind of fences are very common in Sweden. They must be very strong, as they have to carry a lot of snow in the Winter.

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Dit soort hekken zie je overal in Zweden. Ze moeten wel sterk zijn, om tijdens de winter de vele sneeuw te kunnen dragen.

Ruvallen is a private area. To reach it from the main road you have to drive a toll road for 2 km.

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Ruvallen is privégebied. Om er vanaf de doorgaande weg te komen moet je de laatste 2 km over een tolweg.

Linking to Friday's Fences #100.

what a fence

Another holiday photo from Sweden, this is in Hudiksvall.

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Nog een vakantiefoto uit Zweden, dit is in Hudiksvall.

Linking to Friday's Fences #95