Forget the little farm in Imkerij-Poppendamme with fresh honey and candles made from bees wax (we now know that they're closed on Sundays), forget the evening visit to Antwerp's Christmas market (Tobi suggested we do it next weekend due to the rain & wind).
Instead, we drove through the Zeeland countryside, admiring the sunshine and blue skies (their


We didn't spend nearly enough time exploring the facility, and although it was a nice introductory visit, I was quite disappointed that the 3D film and guided tours are only offered in Dutch (unless you're with a group and arrange the tour ahead of time). What a pity! The film offered to English and German speakers was created in the early 1980s and was very dated... time to invest in a new one, I'd say! We did enjoy visiting the family of seals, though, who seemed to put on a bit of a show when we stopped by to say hello (below).




There was certainly no shortage of wind yesterday to power the turbines. It felt like we were in ice-cold, hurricane strength winds (not that I would know what that felt like, but we were certainly struggling to walk)!
So despite our exciting afternoon, you can imagine how pleased we were to come home, get the fire going, and watch Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer with Lukas. Adventures are great, but there truly is no place like home.
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