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demonstrations are the highlight—depending on the day, you
might see a baker making cookies, candies, or ice cream in an
old-fashioned machine (€5, Tue-Sun 12:00-17:00, closed Mon,
Nieuwstraat 8, tel. 0227/545-014, www.deoudebakkerij.nl).
Two other sights—a steam engine museum and a castle
museum—are too far from the station to visit in the one hour
between the steam train and boat. But if you have more time, the
TI
—at the end of the main street on the right—has information
on both, as well as a €3 self-guided tour brochure for the town
(July-Aug Mon-Sat 10:00-12:30 & 13:00-17:00, May-June and
Sept Mon-Sat 11:00-16:00, April and Oct Mon-Sat 11:00-15:00,
closed Sun and Nov-March, Kaasmarkt 1, tel. 0227/542-852).
Shortcut Back to Hoorn:
If you want to skip the boat trip
and open-air museum at Enkhuizen, and instead go directly back
to Hoorn, you can ride back on the steam train, or catch the bus
(bus #39, 2/hr on weekdays, 1/hr on weekends, 25 min, €2 ticket
from driver is cheaper than 7
strippenkaart
strips; slower milk-run
bus #44 runs hourly weekdays only, 1 hour). Note that there's usu-
ally no direct overland connection from Medemblik to Enkhuizen
(except the boat)—you'll have to take the bus to Hoorn, then the
train or bus from there to Enkhuizen.
Boat from Medemblik to Enkhuizen
Catch the
MS Friesland
to
Enkhuizen
just over the dike from the
train station (you'll see the boat
moored there as the train pulls
in). It's a 90-minute putter
along the coast to Enkhuizen.
If you didn't eat in Medemblik,
you can grab a bite in the boat's
surprisingly comfortable din-
ing room (€2-2.50 sandwiches
and meatloaf-like “hamburgers”). If you've brought a picnic, grab
a wicker chair and enjoy the peaceful, windswept deck. Kids can
safely run around on the open spaces of the top deck, or play
wooden board games in the lounge. In good weather, you'll pass
small pleasure craft—little sailboats and windsurfers—close
enough to shake hands.
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Enkhuizen Zuiderzee Museum
The boat from Medemblik drops you right at the rear entrance of
this wonderful open-air folk museum. It's a low-key, re-created
village patterned after a salty old Dutch fishing town. The muse-
um's original buildings were collected from around the Zuiderzee
(“South Sea”), which was diked off in 1932 to become a lake called
the IJsselmeer. With the ensuing transition from saltwater to
