Exloo has 21 places. Opening hours are given by 10 of them, and not one of those works past eleven. A website of their own is held by 14, and 7 cannot be found online at all.
Zero is rare: this is the third such case in more than five hundred places. And the remarkable part is the neighbourhood. Nearby Borger, which we described earlier, has exactly one, so the two quietest places in the series lie side by side in the same municipality. The by-law does not explain it. The article on closing times here covers only terraces, which must shut between midnight and nine; a general night hour for the premises themselves is not in it. The municipality therefore allows more than the village uses, which is a different story from a strict rule.
What is regulated down to the metre is carbide shooting. It is allowed only with churns of at most 50 litres, only on 31 December between ten and eight, with the landowner’s written consent, at least 75 metres from housing and at least 300 metres from places where people are cared for; the application must be in before 1 December. The village appears in writing in 1376 as Exle and is an esdorp built round a green. Two megalithic tombs lie in the woods; the largest in the country stands at Borger, not here. And though Borger is the bigger village, the town hall stands in Exloo. A flock of about 160 Drenthe heath sheep belongs with it.