Northern Fryslân

The north of Fryslân, roughly north of the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden or Ljouwert is a relatively lightly populated land, a land of meadows, windmills, quiet villages and old churches, some on top of "terpen", the artificial hills dating from the middle ages, when the Frisians constructed these to escape to when the land was flooded during storms.

The largest town here is Dokkum, an old fortified town that was built on two "terpen". It is near this town that in the year 754 Boniface, an Anglosaxon abbot from Exeter (Wessex, England) who had been sent to convert the heathen Frisians, was killed by hostile Frisian warriors. On the spot where this took place, Christian Frisians built a terp with a memorial church on top of that.

Not far from Dokkum is the village of Holwerd with nearby the mooring of the ferry to the island of Ameland and northeast of this, near the village of Lauwersoog (actually in Groningen province) is the point where the ferry to Schiermonnikoog leaves from.

	Canal, Ritsemazijl	Mooring in Eernewoude	Frisian farm	View to Deinum
	Wijnaldum	Water pump, Dokkum	Dokkum Town Hall	Market, Dokkum
	Windmill, Ternaard	Canal in Dokkum	Church, Wierum	Schiermonnikoog ferry

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