The historic Dutch village of Zaanse Schans is well known for its windmills, which a heck of a lot of tourists want to go to see.

Indeed, they are some of the most picturesque examples in the Netherlands, and easy to get to from Amsterdam.

Last year, 2.6 million people visited - a gigantic amount for a small place with a resident population of just 100.

It is far too many tourists, says the local council. And so, it has announced that from next spring it will charge every visitor from outside the area €17.50 ($20.50; £15) to enter, to try to control the numbers.

It's very rare for a community to take such a measure, but talking to Marieke Verweij, director of the village's museum, you can understand why they want to do this.

"In 2017 we had 1.7 million visitors… this year we're heading for 2.8 million," she says. "But this is a small place! We just don't have room for all these people!"

Worse, says Marieke Verweij, visitors often "don't know that people live here so they walk into their gardens, they walk into their houses, they pee into their gardens, they knock on doors, they take pictures, they use selfie sticks to peek into the houses. So no privacy at all."

I leave the museum and walk past a coach car park in the general direction of the windmills. I probably shouldn't say this, as it's just going to make the problem worse, but these are some fabulous windmills.

One of them is wooden and painted green. Another has thatched walls.

Every so often the wind picks up and their sails go........

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