We totally recommend to spend some time in the West Frisian towns of Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Medemblik. Truely lovely wonderful towns, you can see there is more than Amsterdam. You will enjoy a different Holland, great past, art, architecture, history and kind folks!
Dirkshorn (West Frisian: Durkshorn), home of Atol Solutions is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia, I was born in Bovenkarspel and have a long lineage of West Frisian since the 15th century. It is a part of the municipality of Schagen (About Schagen) and lies about 9 km north of Heerhugowaard. In 2001, the town of Dirkshorn had 1051 inhabitants and has not changed much since. The built-up area of the town was 0.31 km², and contained 434 residences.The statistical area "Dirkshorn", which also can include the peripheral parts of the village, as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 1610. Other villages for a nice trip ~ The Villages Valkkoog ~ Eenigenburgh & Callantsoog
Schagen has been mentioned in various texts from around 975. One of them was a population count that found that 43 people were living there. Schagen was also mentioned in documents as Scagha from around 989. At this time Schagen was a center of artificial dwelling hills. Perhaps the name refers to Scagha to its location above land water: it could mean "elevated point". Some time later, there is a coastline near Schagen. When the sea retreated again at the end of the 13th century the places in the region grew. The land around Schagen was especially fertile, so it grew and remained the main town in the area.