July 6th 2019
When we were planning the next passage yesterday, we discovered a part of the Zuiderzee museum on the map where we haven’t seen yet and we’re curious to what we would find there. Since we have a museum card we can go in without paying again, so we went to the museum in search for the undiscovered site. It was a Bronze Age farm with surroundings, a very tranquil place. It’s set apart quite far from the rest of the museum, and not many people take the effort to walk all the way up here. We sat there for a moment imagining ourselves living in such a house secluded by the tall trees. Maybe one day, when we’re done travelling.
When we went to the indoor part of the museum it slowly started to rain. Great timing. Through the windows of the museum we could see our own boat. There was another special ship to be seen in the museum. The Hawke (or Sperwer in Dutch) is a flatboat which was according to the story the property of Merlin Minshal, who sailed it through Europe to the Black Sea. Minshall revealed himself to be a secret agent with the code name 007 in “Guilt-Edged”, a book he wrote about his adventures. Ian Fleming used to be his superior during the Second World War, and Minshall is indeed one of the real life characters that have inspired Ian Fleming to create the character James Bond. Who knows, maybe our adventures might be a source of inspiration to someone else one day.