Zeeland

Zeeland has the distinction of being a relatively difficult province to access. There is only one rail line running through it. Although there are roads, you have to cross a lot of long bridges to get just about anywhere.

All of this has had the effect of protecting the area from a lot of outside influences. I think that this area for the most part has retained a lot of its traditional Dutch culture, which appears to be slowly eroding away in some other parts of the country.

For some reason, we can’t add a web site for a province – yet every single province in the Netherlands has one.

See the official website for Zeeland

I’ve been to Breskens, several times, also Middelburg and Vlissengen. I love it here. Lovely, lovely people, it helps to speak a little Dutch; I speak etwas Deutsch and most Dutch also speak Deutsch and Englisch so communication was no problem; excellent train and bus system; only 45 minutes by bus to Brugges; great fishing festival in August called Visserijfest; met the man of my dreams there but, geography intervened; loved traveling by ferry from Breskens to Vlissengen and watching my guy on the other side as the ferry disappeared over to the other side; amazing tulips; loved biking from Vlissengen to Middelburg; best fish and chips in the market.