From our special correspondent in Almere (Netherlands)
This evening, Jan-Albert and Shirley have erected a large tepee-shaped tent in the center of which a beautiful fire warms up the twenty guests of their ephemeral restaurant.
Enough to allow them to supplement their income, in parallel with their activity as guest rooms and winegrowers.
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This family with two children is one of the pioneers of the adventure of Oosterwold, a village that emerged from the ground in 2015, in the Flevoland polder, five meters below sea level, by the force of the wrist of its inhabitants.
"At fifty, we had to build the roads ourselves, install the electricity, the sanitation system, route the cables for the internet..."
A titanic job that is reminiscent of the incessant struggles against floods and the storms of their ancestors from the former neighboring island of Schokland.
A local agriculture
This initiative belongs to the municipality of Almere - on which Oosterwold depends - a new town located half an hour…
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