We’re on the ship now and cruised through the night to Dordrecht.
We heard that the town, dating back to the 1300s, is in a low lying peat marsh area and became an island after it was cut off from other parts of the country after floods in the 1400s. But even as an island its location sitting where three important rivers – Noord, Ouse Maas, & Beneden-Merwede – meet was a very good place for trade in wine, wood and grain and the city was very wealthy from trade.
There’s a funny story about why the town residents are called ‘Sheep-heads’. Along time ago when merchants and others came to trade or sell goods at the market they need to pay a toll to enter. But a sheep herder didn’t want to do that so he dressed his sheep like they were ladies and tried to sneak them into the market for sale. A town dog spotted them as sheep and he was caughtf and had to pay the fees. Even now other parts of the Netherlands call Dordrecht residents sheep-head, so they have fun with it and decorate with sheep all over town.
There were even fluffy little sheep that we saw and we had to stop to visit and give them a quick pat.
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