Our first trip of 2013 - A Walk in the Orange Sun

Orange Sun is actually my literal translation of Oranjezon, which is the name of a nature reserve:

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There are some of villages in this reserve and one of them is Oostkapelle. According to Wikipedia,

Oostkapelle derives its name to a chapel which apparently in the nineteenth century was there, along with another chapel, which was present at the nearby village of Westkapelle. As a stronghold, the western sister village of Oostkapelle developed significantly better than Oostkapelle in the Middle Ages. Oostkapelle remained a farmering village until the twentieth century. After the Second World War the village developed in the vein of Domburg and Zoutelande to a spa, with dunes and the North Sea at a short distance. As a result, the village was not subject to depopulation.

We had a short walk in the Oranjezon, going through the dunes to the coast.

 

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