Medemblik door de ogen van Roos Stallinga

Medemblik, through the eyes of: Roos Stallinga – Cycle along heritage. “It looked like a kind of open-air museum, but more fun, because people also live here” – Roos Stallinga, writer Ride With Me Medemblik. The route goes from Abbekerk, via Sijbekarspel to Midwoud and Oostwoud. Along the way you will find a large number of buildings by the old city architect AT van Wijngaarden, which now largely have a new purpose. Are you cycling along?

Roos Stallinga wrote the booklet ‘Ride with me Medemblik’ commissioned by the municipality of Medemblik, and is distributed to tell the beautiful stories and architecture in this area. The book contains 3 cycling routes and 1 walking route, and is full of illustrations and photos that she made during her adventures in the Medemblik area.

Roos Stallinga grew up with a bicycle, and like most Dutch people she never really thought about it. Until she moved to New York in 2002 and realized that cycling is actually very special.

She rode around town on an old blue racing bike for three years, loving every minute of it. She took friends who came to visit on bike rides to Brooklyn. She wrote her adventures in letters home – with drawings and photos. These were the ingredients for Ride with me NYC, New York’s first cycling guide. This was followed by more bicycle and story books, about Zeeland, Amsterdam, and Barcelona.

Starting point: Witte Kerkje – Dorpsstraat 42 – 1657 AC Abbekerk

We are Medemblik! There are more than 45,000 of us and we live spread across the city and the surrounding villages. Together we add color to our rich community. But who are we really? What makes a little boy a little boy and why don’t you find any glad ears in Abbekerk?

With MEDEMBLIK BY THE EYES OF… we look together for the identity of the different centers of our municipality. What is the unique DNA of the city and villages in our Medemblik? We will look for striking stories and village traditions, old and new. We talk to the village elders and new generations of villagers, ‘outlanders’ and new Dutch people, who all determine the unique identity of our centers in their own way.

Participation

€6.00