Unique Places in Provincie Friesland

Lots of people walked on the dykes to and from Stavoren.
Must be great to walk along the IJsselmeer lake-side.
Driving our car back home we saw sheep and cows walk freely and especially this picture caught my eye: two sheep going left, 2 humans going to the right.

It's so hard to see on this picture, but these are seals in front of the coast of the island. It's so beautiful to watch them. They are on a sandbank and you can actually walk overthere. But you have to keep track of the tides though or you'll get stuck on the sandbank when the tide gets up.

Reaklif - a historic monument just outside of Warns, Netherlands in the Nijefurd municipality of Fryslân province; is a symbol of Fryslân independence and their battle with the Dutch. It's a monumental rock, that tells the tale when Count Willem IV of Holland tried to invade Fryslân in 1345. It was on this spot and in Warns that Willem and his knights were beaten comprehensively by the Fryslân and the count was killed. It is here that "1345 leawer dea as slaef" (1345 rather dead than slave) is chiseled and remembered every 26 September till 1500, and was named "Fryske Leaffrouwedei" (Frisian Blessed Virgin's day). The power of the spot is overwhelming as it sits overlooking the large lake that is endless and could be confused with the ocean. Incredible site and monument. A must visit when in the area.

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Tersoal, Friesland, The Nederlands
Boarnsterhim municipality, Fryslân province
Tersoal (in Dutch it's Terzool), us a quaint little charming village in the Boarnsterhim municipality in Fryslân that used to be in the former municipality of Rauwerderhem, northeast of the city of Sneek, in the region known as the "Lege geaën" (see Poppenwier), with a Hervormde and a Gereformeerde church. Like Grou it was an "archpelago village", cut through by a lot of canals, but this character has been ruined by the "ruilverkaveling" (re-allotment of agricultural grounds). It's Nickname is Koalraepen (cabbages, especially turnip-cabbages, were grown plentiful in Tersoal). The Coat of Arms of Tersoal is in red three golden turnips, placed 1-2; in base a silver cabbage and is inspired by the rime:
"Trije rapen en in koal,
steane yn it wapen fan Tersoal"
(three turnips and a cabbage are on the arms of Tersoal). The Fryske Rie foar Heraldyk did first enquire whether the honorable people of Tersoal were not affronted by that rime, but the villagers told that they were mighty proud of the arms.
Flag: two vertical stripes of red and yellow, proportioned 2:1; in the red stripe a cabbage.
Source: Genealogysk Jierboekje 1986.
Encyclopedie van Friesland, 1958.
Jarig Bakker, 21 Aug 2003.
I found the village quite nice. Reminded me of many small town European village movies. The only store I saw in the village was an antique store. There was a school, a church, a grave yard, and other than that - all i saw were houses and farmland. I suppose if you were driving through town and have a heavy sneeze that made you close your eyes, you would have literally missed the town. Population around 300. The village is full of little traditional practices like the wooden Dutch shoes outside the doors, wreaths on the outside of the doors of the village athlete, grave goods outside a recent grave, etc.