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Today is perhaps not the best day to travel into philosophy — nor the Zuiderzee museum in Enkhuizen for that matter, since the weather is letting us down. It is November in the Netherlands, and the rain is pouring down. We park the car and my ten-year-old daughter complains about her sandwiches. I used the wrong peanut butter this morning. Which is not a good start. I admit my mistake and hope that somehow her attention shifts to something else soon. My friend Kwame joins us at the gates of the museum, and we walk to the big signs located in the front of the open air museum. I read them while my daughter reminds me that such mistakes as peanut butter are very serious and should not be taken lightly. My friend Kwame agrees to this with a wink to my daughter, and I realize that this partnership may affect my day. While I read, my glove falls on the wet ground. I will tell you quickly what’s on the sign. Following a large flood in the crisis year of 1930, the Dutch government decided to build a 30-kilometer dam to close the Zuiderzee and turn the sea into a large lake. A range of local settlements such as fishing villages changed dramatically. People lost their jobs and the once proud sea harbours became lakeside villages. I look at my friend Kwame to see what he will say about this change, but he has this peanut butter pact with my daughter just to tease me.
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Grit, A. (2014). Messing around with Serendipities. In: Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399502_6
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