Column World Region Wout van den Berg: Behind the dune dike

Most of my working life was spent outside the dike. Behind the dune dike. These days, I only go there to walk the dog or go swimming. "The water is for the fish," I'd hear from older colleagues when I recounted my underwater adventures "over the table" at Café Lieman on Terschelling. But I don't dive anymore. Only swim. In the summer, and for the past seven years or so, in the winter as well.