{"id":10380,"date":"2016-11-11T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2016-11-11T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:44:14","slug":"oysters-and-mussels-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=10380","title":{"rendered":"Oysters and Mussels, October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Aric and I had planned to visit the Netherlands in August, to attend the Mussel day<\/a> in Yerseke (August 20), but for various reasons we had to postpone our visit one month. Both of us love seafood and one of the first meals I prepared after our arrival in Amsterdam was a delicious mussel dinner.<\/p>\n

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But Yerseke is also famous for its oysters and the oyster season starts in October!<\/p>\n

At the end of Aric’s stay we rented a car and made a two-day trip to Zeeland, the most Western province of the Netherlands, where Yerseke is located.<\/p>\n

It was a trip full of variety with historical towns, the Delta Works<\/a> and of course oysters and mussels \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Our first stop was in Halsteren to visit the Moses bridge! The Moses bridge? I had never heard about it until Aric discovered an interesting website Atlas Obscura<\/a> with unusual\/unknown tourist attractions all over the world. When you search for the Netherlands, you will find the Moses Bridge<\/a> as one of them. Here it is.<\/p>\n

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The bridge spans the moat of a\u00a017th century entrenchment Fort de Roovere<\/a>\u00a0near Halsteren. It is partially submerged in the water of the moat, giving the impression that you “split” the waters when crossing, like when Moses crossed\u00a0the Red Sea<\/a> \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Here are a few more pictures<\/p>\n\n\t\t