Jonen
Single-row water hamlet of reed-thatched farms under dense trees, reached by ferry, bike or boat.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jonen, a one-row water hamlet just outside Giethoorn, is about what its farms are physically made of: reed roofs, dark brick and tarred timber. It follows the reed cutters who still work the marsh through the winter, and the heritage surveyors who traced how a peat digger's cottage grew into a farmhouse. Best heard from the path, facing the houses and their roofs.
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