Marjolein and I went on a trip through the country today, by train. I visited the toilet on the train and it was very new and clean and big and spacious and it had a very funky huge door! I had to make a photo, I couldn't resist. Those buttons were just screaming "PUSH ME!"...
Marjolein being blown away by the vastness of Franeker...
Big place, big station...
Beautiful little village though. Very well kept.
Franeker's "Kalverstraat"...
Franeker's church. Unfortunately they put up a very ugly light so that you can't photograph the church without it anymore...
This was the main reason for our visit. Eise Eisinga's planetarium. The world's oldest, running, planetarium. It's been doing so for about 240 years.
Before we went in we had lunch in the planetarium cafe next door. It wasn't incredibly awesome...
The planetarium was though. Absolutely astonishing! In only 7 years did this man build a working copy of our solar system in the ceiling of his living room. All the sizes and distances are correct. It also shows the times of sunrise and sunset, the "size" of the moon, the current date, star sign etc. It's truly amazing!
This is the "engine". It's just a very big clock really ;-)
Above the ceiling...
This is the man; Eise Eisinga. A Frisian wool carder with a passion for the stars.
Stars and planets make hungry so I looked up this cozy sounding restaurant in Leeuwarden on my phone. This was not quite what we had in mind though...
So we had dinner at a smaller and much cozier place called Spinoza.
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