Holiday Day 6

Today we went to see more hunebedden (stone age passage graves). \o/ We went to Borger in Drenthe province, which is home to the largest and one of the best preserved hunebedden. There are also several others in the area that we walked to, for a total of 6 hunebedden visited today. The pictures I've uploaded all show the largest hunebed, apart from the last one, which is of another hunebed that now consists of only of two capstones, but has a rather spooky-looking lightning-struck tree next to it. I'm fascinated by how the construction of the hunebedden is both the same and yet different from the other stone-age tombs I've visited, influenced by the available building material.

There are photos that are not "heaps of stones", too. On our walk around Borger, we passed the memorial to the Jewish residents who were sent to concentration camps during the Second World War. (Most towns and villages in the Netherlands have a memorial of this kind - there was also one at Bourtange.) There is a small Jewish cemetery in Borger as well. Other photos show parts of the walk that took us along some very long straight and quite narrow roads that are characteristic of roads in Drenthe province, and along the canalized Hunze river, which used to carry a large amount of water traffic but now simply provides drainage.



Click here for more photos from Borger

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Holiday Day 6

Today we went to see more hunebedden (stone age passage graves). \o/ We went to Borger in Drenthe province, which is home to the largest and one of the best preserved hunebedden. There are also several others in the area that we walked to, for a total of 6 hunebedden visited today. The pictures I've uploaded all show the largest hunebed, apart from the last one, which is of another hunebed that now consists of only of two capstones, but has a rather spooky-looking lightning-struck tree next to it. I'm fascinated by how the construction of the hunebedden is both the same and yet different from the other stone-age tombs I've visited, influenced by the available building material.

There are photos that are not "heaps of stones", too. On our walk around Borger, we passed the memorial to the Jewish residents who were sent to concentration camps during the Second World War. (Most towns and villages in the Netherlands have a memorial of this kind - there was also one at Bourtange.) There is a small Jewish cemetery in Borger as well. Other photos show parts of the walk that took us along some very long straight and quite narrow roads that are characteristic of roads in Drenthe province, and along the canalized Hunze river, which used to carry a large amount of water traffic but now simply provides drainage.



Click here for more photos from Borger

This entry was originally posted at http://tanaqui.dreamwidth.org/184488.html. You can comment here or comment there using OpenID. people have commented there.