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Lemmer

Lemmer is a town in the municipality of De Fryske Marren, in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Lemmer
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The place

Lemmer is a town in the municipality of De Fryske Marren, in the Dutch province of Friesland. Lemmer lies adjacent to the IJsselmeer and the Frisian Lakes and is one of Friesland's best-known surface water sports locations. Lemmer is a bustling lakeside resort in the summer months and attracts not only day-trippers from surrounding communities such as Emmeloord, Urk, and Joure, but also national and international tourists.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lemmer

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal

    The ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station (ir.

    2.1 km · steam-powered pumping station and museum in Lemmer, the Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Do

Things to do

As the region is nearly literally drowning in water, it should not come as a surprise that water sports are a popular activity. Whether you're looking for a canoe (kano) or kayak rental, windsurfing school or general sailboat rental, a watersportcentrum shouldn't be hard to come across.

From Wikivoyage: Lemmer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Bij de Luts

    Meerweg 3, Balk,.

  2. 02
    De Koepoort

    Koestraat 42, Sloten,.

  3. 03
    Taveerne 't Bolwerk

    Voorstreek 116/117, Sloten, info@restauranthetbolwerk.nl.

  4. 04
    De Zeven Wouden

    Voorstreek 120, Sloten, info@dezevenwouden.com.

From Wikivoyage: Lemmer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Lemmer

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 66 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 87 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 131 km
  • Groningen → Lemmer
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → Lemmer
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €11–15
  • Rotterdam → Lemmer
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €17–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lemmer

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lemmer. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    68 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    539 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    575 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    733 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    767 km

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Around it

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