Thursday. Left around 9:45. Blacksmith. Cooler, moderate winds out of the north. Partly cloudy, with mostly white cumulus clouds, but also some other stuff. The smell of coffee roasting at the Gele Brug. Then ARK toward Jutphaas, quiet Schipperspad to the Beatrixsluis which just let a couple of barges onto the canal. Names since forgotten. One barge entering the locks hailing from Switzerland (name ending in ...stad--not stadt). From the Plofsluis a small barge just heading out into an otherwise empty canal toward Tiel, with another small one preparing to do the same. The small barges, those built in the 1950s and '60s, take you back in time, the time of the development of the industrial area at Weesp: from the dike, watching the workers on break swim toward, and try to climb upon, passing barges, ride them for a ways, then being chased off by a member of the crew. Wayen back to town and Mos. Vibrant, what still seemed, rapeseed by the side of the road. In the paper a report on the election platform on the supposedly reasonable populist alternative, the one founded in 2021. Elsewhere we have been able to learn this week that currently there are ten million cars in this small country, and that every year one hundred thousand get added. And yet, this party, which may gain a lot of votes this fall, opposes any measures to discourage the use of cars.
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