Ter Huurne Hollandmarkt

I found this to be a very weird place. Thanks for explaining something about this place RW80. There is a large playground for kids, fish store, restaurant, grocery store, flower store, liquor store, gas station and a big parking lot. The grocery store is an oddity in itself, you enter a store where you can buy lots of different coffee, then you enter a warehouse where you can buy coffee, some soft drinks and macro beers by the pallet, then you enter a normal grocery store. The liquor store is behind the grocery store, apparently on German soil. It has only macro’s, and the Belgian usual suspects. No US beers or interesting micro’s. Service is friendly and they speak different languages. However grocery service in general is not as sophisticated and customer engineered as the big grocery chains like AH, Jumbo, etc. Prices seem fair.

Ter Huurne is a one of a kind place. It’s a supermarket on the border of Germany and the Netherlands. They have playground(including some small mechanized rides !) for kids organize a lot of activities. The Supermarket falls under the Netherlands (Yes we Dutch are cofee experts, that’s why we have so many (in famous cofeeshops. :-) which has a huge coffee assortiment with the Dutch Tax Rate. There is a nice Seafood store and then there is a liquor store which is on German grounds officially. So yes it means alcohol is cheaper. Now this Liquor store has started selling more as some Germans and Dutch Macro’s. Which they used to do. The current selection of special beers consist of some Belgians, Some Dutch, Some brewdog beers and a few bottles from the US by Gigantic and Basecamp. Bottles are relatively cheap priced, but there is a oddity every small bottle seems to fall under German law with the Dutch Amount of Container deposit legislation. So yes that also means,that they have to accept them back under that conidtion. In addition the liquor store selection in spirits is up to a level of a small Dutch Liquor stores. (So yes think Locall GAL & GALL, Mitra in smaller places.). I had a very frienddly American lady who spoke quite good Dutch and like beers herself.(Especially IPA. Shame that I forgot to mention there neighbour in the street :-) ) (I think all staff can speak Dutch and German and Eglish to some level) Worht a drive ? Not for just the beers. But the whole concept is worth a drive now and then. (Most of the rest is open 7 days a week)