Didam has 35 places, of which 22 give opening hours, 63 per cent. Of those, 77 per cent open on a Sunday and 27 per cent work past eleven. A website of their own is held by 63 per cent, and 34 per cent have no online presence.
The by-law here names every day of the week in order then to say that they are the same: shut between two and six, without exception. That is a way of writing one seldom sees, and it leaves little room for misunderstanding.
Didam lies in the Liemers, the strip between Arnhem and the German border; tourist platforms like to count the municipality to the Achterhoek, but that is a different division. Arnhem lies eighteen kilometres west, Doetinchem eleven east.
The municipality was its own until 1 January 2005, when Didam and Bergh together became Montferland; the town hall has stood in two places ever since.
In the core stands the Mariakerk, and its history runs the usual direction upside down: in 1954 the reformed congregation sold the building to the catholic parish and built itself a new church.
Gelderland holds no European protected name. The place counts 17,649 residents, of whom 26 per cent are over sixty-five.