Information about Deventner from Eric.
Hi all,
This is Eric, one of the Team Members of FT Schalkhaar. We are very happy to host this event and it good to see the good interest of the UK shooters to come over and visit us. Although we have good experiences in setting up this kind of events, this one will be for sure the next step for us to organize. Luckily we have good support in the UK as well and that makes our lifes a bit easier. We are very confident that it will be attractive event for everybody.
The outline is a earlier posted so I am not going into that for now. What I want to do here is to tell you a bit more on Schalkhaar and the town nearby called Deventer, so you have an impressing of where you are going to travel to.
Schalkhaar is a small village near Deventer and there is a lot history around. Deventer is an old town, celebrating 1250 years next year and is one of the old Hanze Steden. The city centre of Deventer has a lot the offer, there are very old and unique houses (the oldest brick house of the Netherlands can be found here) and a walk through Deventer, with or without a guided tour, is a popular thing to do. Also Deventer has the oldest weekly open air market on Friday morning and Saturday, this is taken place already for 700 years every week! Besides that, shopping facilities in Deventer are excellent and there are a lot of nice shops to be found. Deventer is also very famous for printing, the earliest start of book printing was also in Deventer and up to date there is a big printing industry in Deventer. Because of this you will find in particular a lot of book shops in Deventer selling new but also antique books.
In the city centre you can find a variaty of resaurants, bars and food shops, ranging from simple and cheap to exclusive and expensive. So to everybodies taste, you can find any. Also there is a good varity of hotels, B&B's and hostels around.
In the near surroundings of Deventer there is a varity of landscapes. Since Deventer is situated at the river IJssel which is believed to be the most beautiful big river in the Netherlands, you can find nice river sceneries. But is a short distance you can find woods and fields as well. Schalkaar is more to the wood and fields area, the green stuff you know.
I hope this is helping to set your mind on where you are travelling to and make up your mind if you want to make it a family event as well, since for the non shooters there much to do.
See you all in Schalkhaar next year, we are really looking forward to it. For some more ideas, visit our website www.ftschalkhaar.nl. Although in Dutch for now, the pictures will speak for themselves.
Eric
This is Eric, one of the Team Members of FT Schalkhaar. We are very happy to host this event and it good to see the good interest of the UK shooters to come over and visit us. Although we have good experiences in setting up this kind of events, this one will be for sure the next step for us to organize. Luckily we have good support in the UK as well and that makes our lifes a bit easier. We are very confident that it will be attractive event for everybody.
The outline is a earlier posted so I am not going into that for now. What I want to do here is to tell you a bit more on Schalkhaar and the town nearby called Deventer, so you have an impressing of where you are going to travel to.
Schalkhaar is a small village near Deventer and there is a lot history around. Deventer is an old town, celebrating 1250 years next year and is one of the old Hanze Steden. The city centre of Deventer has a lot the offer, there are very old and unique houses (the oldest brick house of the Netherlands can be found here) and a walk through Deventer, with or without a guided tour, is a popular thing to do. Also Deventer has the oldest weekly open air market on Friday morning and Saturday, this is taken place already for 700 years every week! Besides that, shopping facilities in Deventer are excellent and there are a lot of nice shops to be found. Deventer is also very famous for printing, the earliest start of book printing was also in Deventer and up to date there is a big printing industry in Deventer. Because of this you will find in particular a lot of book shops in Deventer selling new but also antique books.
In the city centre you can find a variaty of resaurants, bars and food shops, ranging from simple and cheap to exclusive and expensive. So to everybodies taste, you can find any. Also there is a good varity of hotels, B&B's and hostels around.
In the near surroundings of Deventer there is a varity of landscapes. Since Deventer is situated at the river IJssel which is believed to be the most beautiful big river in the Netherlands, you can find nice river sceneries. But is a short distance you can find woods and fields as well. Schalkaar is more to the wood and fields area, the green stuff you know.
I hope this is helping to set your mind on where you are travelling to and make up your mind if you want to make it a family event as well, since for the non shooters there much to do.
See you all in Schalkhaar next year, we are really looking forward to it. For some more ideas, visit our website www.ftschalkhaar.nl. Although in Dutch for now, the pictures will speak for themselves.
Eric
