across the IJsselmeer

I was looking at Google maps today and decided to look at Holland and The Netherlands. I realised that, although the long "dyke" connecting Holland to the rest of The Netherlands over The IJsselmeer is a very famous feature of the country, I have only ever seen it in maps (see photograph below). Strangely, I have never taken the time to look at photographs of it. I have, in fact, traveled very close to this area when I visited The Netherlands in 1997. And now I've seen it in photographs... what a place!