Friesian walks: Finkum : 13-02-06.

Finkum: Finkum belongs to the munnicipality Leeuwarderadeel (it is the smallest village of the munnicipality Leeuwarderadeel), and has  a small community of which a majority are farmers and rest made of resident and outside resident citizens, (meaning people from other dorpen or towns outside Finkum).Most of their produce is koolzaad en granen. (I do not know it in english). When we first entered Finkum, I was amazed at what we first thought would be a small village, walk in one end and five minutes later walk out the other end, but this village was not like that at all.  It captivated me.The village has grown over the years and is mainly consisted of farms, it is very much a farming community. <a href="http://friesianwalks.web-log.nl/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/09/28/finkum111.jpg"><img border="0" height="261" width="300" alt="Finkum111" src="http://friesianwalks.weblog.nl/files/2009/09/75b515f185" /></a> As times fliesSaint Vintus Church.There was a church that was very old and I believe they hold a Dutch reform service, (hervormde kerkdienst), twice a year.  The church was built in around 1200-1250, it is built in a roman style and its name is Saint Vitus Church (Sint Vituskerk Finkum).This church was built by monks, (it used to be Roman Catholic), though most of the Hervormde churches have been Catholic in the past. You can just imagine farmers going to mass on the way to work in the fields in the morning and  at the end of the day to give thanks, (how I would love to have lived in these times). If you want to visit the church you can get the key by Holdingawei 8.apparently, (though I did not know this at the time or I would have collected the key). The cementry was very big considering it is such a small village.On the tower was a clock it was unusual, the portico on the side is also very interesting.We then continued our walk and saw that the rail line that used to run from Leeuwarden to Dokkum came through Finkum and Hijum, and you could walk this route.There was a sign saying "Spoardyk", so marja and I decided we would walk this route the following week.The train station has been pulled down I think, as we could not find it, I did however look on the NS web-site and this did exist. <a href="http://friesianwalks.web-log.nl/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/09/28/finkum115.jpg"><img border="0" height="268" width="450" alt="Finkum115" src="http://friesianwalks.weblog.nl/files/2009/09/1760175d53" /></a>It was misty and freezing Walking back to the car  we saw in the distance a farm with its fields ploughed, and it had a sort of mist around it, (this showed us that it was extremely cold), and did we feel it, I was frozen when we got to the car, I do not know how Marja felt. <a href="http://friesianwalks.web-log.nl/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/09/28/finkum117.jpg"><img border="0" height="338" width="450" alt="Finkum117" src="http://friesianwalks.weblog.nl/files/2009/09/a5ff2bb715" /></a> Open the port to enter We then came to another bend in the road and came across another building which could have been a church earlier and next to it was a long building (I think maybe this used to be a kloister),and a arch was built joining it to a house that was very quaint ,which was made into two houses. <a href="http://friesianwalks.web-log.nl/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/09/28/finkum113.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" width="300" alt="Finkum113" src="http://friesianwalks.weblog.nl/files/2009/09/8b201b158a" /></a> What do you need to hideThe road winds and there was a house built with a tree in front with half the tree trunk hollowed out and I thought what a nice place to hide your booty (goods), like pirates used to, (how ones imagine can run away with oneself).On the bend of the road was a old house that is busy being renovated and is also a bed and breakfast, (which reminded me a bit of the villages we pass through in Suffolk, England, and you come across these english bed and breakfast places). How nice and quaint. On our way we came across all sort of sights, like a farm or manor house surrounded by a forest of trees, which you could barely see due to the trees surrounding it.  I do believe there used to be a manor (state) house in Finkum (whether this is the house or not, I do not know). There were a few people milling about and out walking and were very polite and greeted us, (which I find lovely, as I have heard that people living in villages are a very closed and do not accept outsiders very much.).  This I think is not true, as I have not experienced much of this problem as the villages have always been friendly and greet us. <a href="http://friesianwalks.web-log.nl/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/09/28/sneeuwklokjes26.jpg"><img border="0" height="302" width="450" alt="Sneeuwklokjes26" src="http://friesianwalks.weblog.nl/files/2009/09/8e9cbcc5a4" /></a> The snowdrops says it is going to be spring soonThen we came across snow drops, usually when you see this it is s sure sign that perhaps our long winter days are nearly over and spring is around the corner. I love these flowers, and have put bulbs in my garden to flower next year.

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Finkum : 13-02-06.

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