Visiting friends with a beach house on the island of Texel will soon give you a 'beachcombers instinct'.
On the beach, you pick things up and drop it again until you find something interesting.
It is fun to unravel the heaps of shells found and to see how they are held together by the beards of mussels. It hangs by very fragile threads.
As a child, you play with it for a while until a shape emerges and the real play begins.
