Most people that we talked to said to "skip" Den Helder. The city lies at the very tip of North Holland and is dominated by a Royal Navy base. The city itself wasn't anything to write home about, but the setting was beautiful. We walked along a huge man-made seawall for 2 or 3 miles the whole way around the arc of the coastline against the North Sea. We stopped at "the point" to watch seals playing in the surf on the western coast, ferry boats taking vacationers to the island of Texel on the Northern coast, and a large herd of horses galloping full stride across the polder below us to the East. The wind almost knocked us off the bluff, but it was a spectacular view.
We took the long way home and stopped for dinner on the old harbor of Hoorn...still my favorite city in The Netherlands.
Lekker!
P.S. - I don't know why the lighthouse looks like it is leaning here. It wasn't. My camera has been giving me grief recently so maybe it is distorting the pictures.
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