A pungent smell wafts around the terraces on the Markt in Assen. ‘A bit of a poo smell, a sick sewer smell. Hard to explain actually

“It doesn’t stink every day. But yesterday the smell was unbearable,” says owner Wieger Janssens of Restro TOF. What does it smell like then? “A bit of a poo smell, a sick sewer smell. Hard to explain really.” But it can be read from his face that the odor that is roaming around at that time actually belongs a few kilometers away at the sewage treatment plant. And not on the Markt, the catering square of the Drenthe capital.