Giethoorn -Venice of the Netherlands
Can you imagine a village with no roads? There is such a place in the Netherlands called Giethoorn , founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230. It is said that when they first arrived in the area, they noticed an unusually large number of goat horns that were left over after the big flood of St Elisabeth had ravaged the area in 1170. So they named their ...