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Watery villages, old trading towns, a rare bird and a joke that is centuries old. Ten questions about the province in the east of the Netherlands.
Lost among the canals 0–4 · Easter-fire builder 5–8 · Honorary Overijsseler 9–10
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In the old part of Giethoorn there were no roads at all: everything went by boat over the canals, under about 176 bridges. The village became famous after a funny film called Fanfare was made there in 1958.
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Zwolle is the capital, even though Enschede, near the German border, has more people. Zwolle's best-known church tower is nicknamed the Peperbus: the pepper pot.
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Overijssel means 'across the IJssel'. The name was given from the point of view of the bishops of Utrecht, who ruled the land on the far side of the river.
Photo: Tjeerd.nijeholt at Dutch Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Easter fires are an old tradition in the east of the Netherlands, in the area where Low Saxon dialects are spoken. Villages pile up wood for weeks to make their fire as big as possible.
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At the Dickens Festival, hundreds of people dress up as characters from his books and stroll through the old centre. Even the streets and alleys are decorated to look like Victorian England.
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The Hanseatic League linked trading towns around the North Sea and the Baltic, and ships from these river towns sailed far and wide. The Dutch East India Company came much later, in 1602.
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Otters had disappeared from the country, but were released in the Weerribben in the early 2000s. The park is a huge maze of reed beds and peat ponds, where reed is still cut for thatched roofs.
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Kampen is known for 'Kamper uien', silly stories about its own people. The town even has a summer festival named after them, and a 'Kampen sturgeon' dish that is really made of eggs.
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In spring, black grouse males gather to show off, puffing up their feathers and making bubbling calls. Only a small group is left on these heather-covered hills.
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FC Twente won the Eredivisie for the first time in 2010. The club was formed in 1965, and one of the clubs it grew out of, Sportclub Enschede, had already been champion in 1926.
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