TTT 2020 03 West Friesland vanuit Hoorn
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RouteXpert Hans vd Ven (Mr.MRA)
Last edit: 03-04-2021
Route Summary
Since the early 90s of the last century, ANWB / Promotor has put out the so-called Tank Bag Tours (TTT). You understand that the name dates from the GPS-less era, when motorcyclists still made their way on back roads with a roadbook in the tank bag or route roll. These TTT are tours through the Netherlands with an occasional trip to Belgium, Germany or even Luxembourg, which are held 6 to 7 times a year. The 1st around March and the last around October. These TTT have a starting point, a pause point and an end point. It is nice to discover what you have not seen in your own country and which nice roads you did not know.
This TTT may differ slightly from the original.
I have checked all route points and placed them neatly on the road where necessary. Also, if necessary, I set the starting point and end point of the route a bit further apart to avoid navigating directly to the end point and added the POI files of the start and end point as well as possible pause point (s).
Finally, I made the route the same for TomTom, Garmin and MRA Navigation users.
Thanks to Promotor.
Pay attention! Due to the stricter measures due to the Corona crisis, you may need to reserve a plate on the terrace, so bring some food and drinks with you on the way.
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Duration
4h 21m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
150.51 km
Countries
Medemblik
RouteXpert Review
This third Tank Bag Tour takes you through West Friesland. Take Hoorn, the Veermanskade. Of course you have seen it before but it remains a breathtaking facade, opposite the water of the inner harbor. And the West Frisian Omringdijk, so high above the polder land. Not to mention the trip on the former island of Wieringen. Stop at the Gemeenelandsweg and be amazed by that undulating and wide landscape. Whatever remains, all those Dik-Trom-like ribbon villages are on the way, ash lanes with locks on the left and right behind which the bell-jar farms string together, with underneath them real beauties such as the Welgelegen farm, in the heart of Wognum. And beyond, beyond the villages, the untouchable land awaits, open and empty and stretched out, over which the wind has free rein. All you have to do is hold on tight and provide plenty of counter-steering. We start this tour in the Museum of the Twentieth Century, in a fantastic location, in the former prison of Hoorn, surrounded by the water of the IJsselmeer. Beautiful of course, to see the first TV, and the first pick-up, and the first PC, but it is Truus Koopmans' voice that really counts for me. Truus Koopmans, who sang on the radio of "Well, well, well, what will you eat?" and 'Remember well, remember well, it is the vegetable that does it'. My first crush, I realize now. In 1956 she seems to have had another hit, together with De Windmolens: 'I want to kiss your pillow, I want to kiss you, I am in love'. God save me, Truus, after all these years…
After another salute on the Bierkade, the Oude Doelenkade and Nieuwendam, it is time to leave Hoorn. We are here in the heart of Scheringa-country, the man who took West Friesland with him in his great dreams and in his downfall. The sad testimony of this is in humble Opmeer, just outside the center, next to the fire station. It is there what the Scheringa Museum for Realism should have become, but an enormous clump of stones has remained, a somewhat obese building. Pathetic.
Wieringen is also such a place where you like to come back. You immediately know when you will be there, when the long straight polder roads of the Wieringermeer give way to narrow winding mountains. Ancient landscape - the boulder embolism formed during the penultimate ice age - that managed to survive as an island when the raging sea knocked out the lower grounds around it. Now you can tour quiet roads and be amazed how a few meters of relief can create a completely different landscape. On the way I see another curlew, which pleased me very much. Or was it a tüüt as they say here, a whimbrel?
You will notice that it is still a real community at Wieringen if you join Teetjes Vis en Dis in Hippolytushoef (Hippo, for intimates). In all the hustle and bustle, Teetje finds the time to get out from behind her counter and crouch down with a little girl on a pink balance bike. "Are you happy with your sister?" She asks. Her father, hands in the pockets of his blue overalls, watches quietly.
At Den Oever you dive back into the Wieringermeer. Kilometers of buffalo on straight roads with names that show a chilling sobriety. The Sluitgatweg, the Oosterkwelweg, the Oom Keesweg. The pinnacle of this boned reality is Kreileroord, with its Korenstraat and its Vlasstraat and its Landbouwstraat; terraced houses with front gardens, in which black clicks with blue and orange covers determine the image. Even more alienating: here you will find quite a few cars with a Hungarian number plate. Hungarians? Here? Yes, seasonal work, I understand, but still.
After a few wanderings you end up tired in the Dutch Steam Engine Museum, on the Oosterdijk, under Medemblik. And let that be a nice place to relax, under the hiss and stamping of the various steam engines, while the wind rolls over the roofs outside. This type of museum can always count on undivided sympathy, not least because of the type of men who maintain the machines there unpaid and update the visitors. You will be updated about flywheel and pulley, eccentric and the balls of what.
Excuse me? The balls of what? "Van Watt," it is said. "Do you see those two steel balls around a vertical axis, on top of the steam engine? They rotate at a certain speed. When the speed increases, those balls deflect through the centrifugal force. Elsewhere, a valve in the steam supply closes slightly, causing the speed to drop. And you understand what happens then. If the number of revolutions decreases, the balls will rotate less quickly and they will drop back down slightly, due to gravity. As a result of which the valve in the steam supply opens a bit and the speed increases. In this way, the machine controls its own speed. "
That you can tame such primal forces with these kinds of simple means! How beautiful technology can be!
Because I have not (yet) driven this route, this route gets 3 stars.
(Source: Promoter 2020-4)
Museum van de Twintigste Eeuw
Stoomgemaal Medemblik
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