This weekend my dad came to visit and we went to Bataviawerf outside Lelystad in Flevoland to look at the boat Batavia; or rather a reconstruction since the original grounded near Western Australia.
I've read Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash about a year ago and really liked it and since then I wanted to go see the replica. So now I have one more Dutch cultural site that I can tick of my todo list.
It's pretty cool to see a big sailing ship especially one that has been the centre for a bloody mutiny. It's probably not as big as the ship Vasa but it was well worth the trip. Especially since it is pretty cool to travel across fake land imagining that you are five meters under water.
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