Urk

Urk is a town in the Netherlands that used to be an island. Then the Dutch drained away a lot of water in the 1970s and what was once an island became a lake-side town.

Urk is quite a strange place to visit - it is something that is centuries old, in the middle of soul-less modern polder. The water-side of Urk has lighthouse, seagulls, old town with winding streets etc. The rest of Urk is like the rest of the Netherlands.

Urk