Goodness me, it would appear that I’ve not yet shown you any views of the lovely “Markiezenhof” or “Marquis’s Home,” the museum / formerly – sometime – royal – related historical museum and structure which spurred my bike and train adventure down to Bergen Op Zoom, Vlissingen, Middelburg, and so on. Between this and my visit at long last to the Muidersloot, I’ve concluded that most palace – castle type items in NL (at least those that are now open to the general public as museums) must have a superlative in their self-description. This one says it’s the oldest (maybe also best maintained?) city palace in … all of Europe was the claim, if I recall well. During the Napoleonic wars, this area was a very important prize for the French, so the museum has lots of maps and stories from that time, when it would appear at least Napoleon’s brother and maybe the man himself visited this very building.
(so much world, so little time....) 
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