Leaving England via Dover - heading for very choppy seas
The view from just outside our first stop, Baarland, Zeeland
What a lovely day!
Our first 10 mile run of our trip
Dutch wind farm - the price to pay for Internet :)
Mel enjoing sitting on something big round and long, Vlissingen
Ryan eyeing up the beach, Vlissingen
Vlissingen windmills, the old and the new
Enjoing a beer by the harbour - going to have to be careful about boozing too much!
Power kiting training for Mel on the beach
A weird building with a massive man attached! Near Rotterdam
Eating apple pie in Leiden after a few too many beers
About to have a picnic in Zoetermeer
Our forest campsite near Arnhem
John Cross Bridge (A Bridge Too Far), Arnhem
Wizzing along on our ride back from Arnhem
Chore day - laundry in the forest!
Lovely autumn colours
To Eat, or not To Eat. That is the question..... (We didn't)
A sting ray (Dolfinarim)
Stingray (Dolfinarium)
Part of the sea lion show (Dolfinarium)
A *HUGE* Sea lion! (Dolfinarium)
The performing dolphins (Dolfinarium)
Crap photo - but its a man being tossed by two dolphins (Dolfinarium)
Two really fat warusses! (Dolfinarium)
Waruss playing up :) (Dolfinarium)
Ahhhhhhhhh! (Dolfinarium)
How sweet!!! (Dolfinarium)
They may be fat - but in the water they are so graceful! (Dolfinarium)
Blubber (Dolfinarium)
Ryan in part of Amsterdamse Bos park
A heren patiently waiting for fish in Amsterdamse Bos park
The abserdly high ride in the Amsterdam fair!
The fairk in Amsterdam
Us enjoing a well earned beer in Amsterdam
Mel enjoying another large big beer
Cocos Outback - ready for another huge meal
My meal. Don't let perspective make the portions look small!
Just before the start of Amsterdam 1/2 marathon
This lot are ahead of me already!!!
Looking better than I felt after crossing the finish
Part of the croud at the end
Amsterdam Olympic Stadium
Stoomgrmaal de Cruquius - old dutch steam pump
Some bizarre missiles tucked in the trees - so it appeared....
Some windmills in Zannse Schans (some open and working)
Inside the workings of a windmill - all these cogs are spinning - no Health & Saftey here!
Ryan on the windmill just being missed by a swooping blade
On the bridge on the 25 mile long dam in NW Holland (Sea left, lake right)
Where we stayed for 6 Euro! Lovely facilities - bargain!
Our Week 2 route (rough markings!)
Trip 1, Week 1 rough route
Goudkantoor in Groningen centre
Modern housing development in Gronigen - with bizarre thatched roof!
Mel in Bourgane
Part of the Bourtange defense canal network
Thats us behind a little tree! A little stellplatz in Bremen
One of the nicer buildings in Bremam
Mel caught napping!
The lovely town of Stade
The canal/dock in Stade with an antique crane behind
Stunning canals with identical budlings as far as the eye can see (Hamburg)
Binnenalster lake in the middle of Hamburg
Mel in Hamburgs little Venice
Ryan in front of Rathaus. Appropriate?
Looks like a bitch daughter of our van crossed with a Citroen!
Ratrhaus from top of St Nikolai memorial with Binnenalster lake in the background
Lovely nude statue with St Nikolai in the background
Queen Mary ship in Hamburg docks
Hamburg FIschmarkt - -absolultey heaving!!
Map of Bourtange showing defense canals
Us during Amsterdam half marathon...
Our rough route for Week 3
Wasswespiele in Wismar market square
The view from our camping pitch over Lake Muritz
The quiet market street in Waren
The sunset over Lake Muritz
Mel with goodie bag ready for an evening in! Lake Wobiltzee
What a stupid road sign! “Don't hit a tree above 80!” ????
Checkpoint Charlie. Yep - thats it surrounded by tourist tat
A rather nice part of the Berlin wall....
The Berlinerdome - a Cathederal in Berlin
The really high Fernsehturm tower (cafe at top), Berlin
Mel posing with a statue at Neptunbrunnen
Berlinerdome again - massive place!
A Bugatti Veyron. I asked for a test drive......
Brandenburg gate
The Quadriga at the top of Brandenburg gate
The Reichstag in Berlin with a dome you can walk in. Very imposing
The very impressive view of Strass Des 17 Juni, from Siegessaule to Brandenburg gate in the distance
The Siegessaule - Triumphal column
The Goldelse at the top of Siegessaule column
Mel in the stunning Tiergarten
The moving Holocaust memorial
Ryan eating a healthy and small Pretzel
Front view of the mighty Berlinerdom
Some of the demolishion going on in Berlin centre
Us after a long day in Berlin
Leipzeg old stock exchange & statue - superb building yet typically surrounded by building works
This is on maximum zoom - a guy on a crane (big long-arm type) - no saftey harness......
Leipzig town hall (with building works) - and the crane behing has a guy hanging in the “load”...
Stasi office (as seen with Michael Palin on New Europe)
Mel in front of the lovely and unsual St Thomas Church, Leipzig
One amazing, large, and long fish of some sort. Be one hell of a meal...
Jaws
Hyenas in Leipzig zoo
Meerkat - Leipzig zoo
Meerkat babies!
Naff photo of a lion eating some meat - Leipzig zoo
A sort of zebra/horse cross breed I think...
“I am comig to get you” - tiger in Leipzig zoo
Sweet!
Tiger eyeing up his next meal, Leipzig zoo
Semper Opera House - Dresden
Dresden Cathedral with Royal Palace just starting at the background
Zwinger - Dresden
View over Augustus Bridge - Dresden
Royal Palace (?) - Dresden
View down Munzgasse to Frauekenkirche (rebuilt after WWII)
Frauenkirche - dark stones are the original (pre war...)
If Carlsburg did city centre car parks....
Rough route of week 4
View over Augusta Bridge into Dresden
Dresden skyline over the river
Ryan by the Elbe
Mel shining with a beer
Us enjoying a beer and meal in Dresden
A castle that just appeared at the side of the road!
The view down the STEEP road to the castle
Mel in Ballenstedt castle looking down onto the lovely grounds
View from cable car over Harz mountais in Thale
Mels not scared - honest!
The cable car run in Thale
Part of the toboggan/roller coaster in Thale
Part of the course...!
The mountain view from the cable car
Blankenburg from the caste
A really nice oak tree....
Blankenburg castle at top ostreet
Us running through the forest in Blankenburg
The view from the top of some high rock climb in Blankenburg
More stalegmites n tites
And more
A skelleton of some sort!
Mel chilling with the Nintendo DS!
Another well earned night out!
Spot the drinker!!
Rough route of Week 5
CAUTION “landscape protection area” for owls!
View from Waldeck castle
Borg Vischering in Germany - a nice (but closed) castle.
Just back after our bike ride in Dorsten
Rough route of our journey in Week 6
Our rough route of the entire of Trip 1 of Holland and North Germany
Our last big meal (HUGE!) in friendly Dorsten
Dorsten square and Christmas star!
The moon. OK - yeah - I just found a new camera setting for night photos:)
