normandcindysadventures

Tuesday, April 25, 2006



First stop Hoorn walking tour. This town is said to have 365 monuments and historical buildings. One for each day of the year. We saw the “Old Ladies Home” and an old church that has been turned into shops, including a baby store. This is due to the large decline in church attendance throughout Holland and they needed something to do with the churches. Hoorn is a former sea port and home of Jan Pieterszoon Coen who was the first governor of Indonesia and the founder of Jakarta (it was called Batavia in the beginning). Hoorn is also the place that gave the name to Cape Horn in Chile. We passed the tower defense system of the original city. After strolling through the old section and some of the newer store areas, we stopped for a cup of coffee at a Tex-Mex restaurant on the square where the statue to Jan Coen stands.

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