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Driving through the otherworldly fishermen’s village of Durgerdam, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, one realizes there's more to the region than cafes and coffee shops. The locale, home to just 500 inhabitants, is located a fifteen-minute drive from Amsterdam. Here, however, the essence of nature reveals its pure form: tranquility reigns, fluffy sheep graze in the meadows,…