Dave,
Thanks for pointing that out. I mentioned the museum, but didn’t elaborate the importance of the ship in context (now corrected for insertion into the book). It’s hard to include every nuance of interesting fact in the world, yet keep the book focused on being a guidebook for the serious tourist who only has a day or a few days to see the high points of a place. I’ve also put in a couple of sentences about how Dutch architecture spread, along with their concept of the “stock exchange” through the continental North and Baltic Sea areas.
“the book”, “Take the High Road - A Primer for the Independent Traveler” is segmented into sections.
It starts with a couple of hundred pages of accumulated “generic” advice about traveling, in general. Things like packing, how to benefit from various types of transportation systems, internet security, etc., etc. There is also a massive section of “articles” about places - like the ones I post (I think now approaching 1,000 of them), each between 1 to 10 pages long arraigned geographically. In the “real world”, the babblings that I start each weekly post off with are segregated to a third section of the book for those who enjoy that sort of rambling.
I haven’t checked recently, but the total book must be approaching around 2,500 pages (each of which I try to keep brief). The good news is that it’s an E-book, so it’s pretty light to take along when you travel. It may not be the best travel book for everyone, but I honestly refer to it every day as we travel (along with other resources).
Jeff