tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66611674811183137502024-03-19T02:27:12.578-07:00Pub Ride 2018Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-66257302144622760192018-07-08T09:17:00.001-07:002018-07-08T09:17:24.825-07:00July 8 - Maps of the trip<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of maps showing our track and where we stayed. Unfortunately, I had to eliminate most of the detail on the maps due to the scale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entire distance I cycled was just over 2800 km, including a couple of rides before we started the Pub Ride and one after when we cycled to Fredenborg, Kronborg & back to Copenhagen. The Pub Ride portion was about 2600 km. </span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-39215755240562901692018-07-08T09:09:00.000-07:002018-07-08T09:09:25.135-07:00July 8 - Last Day in Copenhagen<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is it - my last full day. What to do? I did fulfill my promise and make up maps of the trip. I'll add them as a separate post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First photo is a most unusual bicycle frame. I assume this is a custom as I haven't seen one like this before. Modern version of a Penny Farthing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next a vegetable stand just outside of Christiania. Prices for restaurants, accommodation and other similar services are really expensive in Copenhagen, but the basic prices for food, while not cheap, are not as high. Looking at the prices for some of these items, they don't seem significantly more than at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the entrance to the Naval Station are a pair of figureheads. This one is from the Dagmar, a corvette in service from 1861 to 1901.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was public access to the naval base, so I wandered in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This pair of very polished and shining boats must be used for ceremonies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the Peder Skram, built in 1964 and Denmark's major contribution to NATO naval forces during the cold war. It was decommissioned in 1990. Now it is restored by volunteers as a museum. Actually, it looks more modern than some of Canada's ships..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bridge of the Peder Skram. I'll spare you the other photos and technical details about the ship, although I found them fascinating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the yard's dock crane, dating from 1751. I saw a photo of a Danish warship scuttled in front of the crane in WW2 to prevent the Germans from using either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A small coastal submarine, also on display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original shore defenses. The cannons can be aimed by swinging the gun on the wooden tracks, which also serve to limit the gun's recoil when fired. (There were modern guns behind me wrapped in tarps with a No Entry sign.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving the naval base, I have seen this at least 3 times today - a fellow pedaling his fully grown significant other in the box of a cargo bike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO, Laura, we are not going to get this style of tandem bike!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I finally got my harbour cruise - sort of. This is the local harbour bus boat - 5 bucks (Cdn) to get back across the harbour, instead of hoofing it around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very pleasant way to end my stay here.</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-86347318880959769052018-07-07T10:34:00.001-07:002018-07-07T10:42:27.687-07:00July 7 - Christiania<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This morning started with some chores and then a walk to Christiania. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The market, especially popular at Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to use one of the pubic toilets in the area. I haven't seen a 'pooper' of that style since I was hiking in South America. You don't need to see a picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember this spire? I talked about it a few days ago and said I'd get around to having a look at it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the tower of Our Saviors Church, which has been around in some form since the late 1600's; the spire was finished in 1752.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The public is allowed to climb the tower and visit the church, although the church was closed today for a wedding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Climbing the brick part of the tower starts off with wooden stairs that get progressively narrower and steeper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, why did all use crazy people climb the tower - for the views of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View down the river east towards the ocean. Five (count 'em) cruise ships in town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The canals to the northeast. Our hotel is on the other side of the canal, just behind the boat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the bells. The church has a large carillon, but luckily, no bells were struck while I was there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leaving the tower and walking back, here's some live aboard boats in one of the many canal marinas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of canals, I thought I should include a map of Copenhagen's centre so you can orient yourselves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the features:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-The blue dot at the centre is the hotel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Christiania is directly east , on the next canal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-The Little Mermaid is the cut off blue marker top centre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-The cruise ships are moored above the map.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point of the map is to show you the number of canals in the city and how, in the past, they were crucial for the shipping trade of the city. Whenever you are walking / biking around the centre, you will run into canals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have one more day in Copenhagen before I fly home. Not sure if I am doing any touristy stuff tomorrow as I have to pack up and sort some stuff out. So, I may not post anything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope to make up some maps of the whole trip and post them here. Check back in a few days to see if I have gotten around to it.</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-34336987594810725652018-07-06T13:03:00.002-07:002018-07-06T13:03:58.698-07:00July 6 - More Copenhagen<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was a big museum day with a bonus - free access to the Butterfly House at the Botanical Garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breakfast with Tony & Michelle and say bye to them as they head to the airport.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First stop is the Geological Museum - Part of the Natural History Museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is the Agpalilik meteorite on display at the entrance. At 20 tons it is one of the largest meteorites to hit the earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A large part of the display is dinosaurs and their evolution. This is a Protoceratops family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a Tarbosaurus bataar and is closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other main feature in the museum is the rock and mineral collection. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This critter is called a Coelestin, and is related to something colloquially called a Thunder Egg by my rockhound parents </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The big blue winged butterflies were the hardest to photograph. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peleides Blue Morpho. The tips of many of their wings were damaged, probably from hitting the sides of the house.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before you think I know anything about butterflies, I took a photo of the poster showing the dozen or so species they had.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The water plant house:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In one of the tropical houses is a Wollemi Pine, thought to be extinct until a small patch of them were found near Sydney, Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's unfortunate that I am so botanically challenged to not be able to fully appreciate the displays.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sky cleared and the day turned warm, but I had another nearby museum to visit - the National Gallery of Denmark. This is a collection of Danish and International Art. Today the entire European wing, about 1/4 of the collection, was closed, but it still left a great deal to look at.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The largest gallery I visit is Danish & Nordic Art from 1750 - 1900. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quite liked this work by Frederik Sedring because it is of the Marble Church when it was sitting unfinished (remember my story from yesterday)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a period of Realism for Danish Artists. You could get right up very close to the canvases and see the delicate brushwork.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be honest, the modern stuff doesn't generally turn my crank. but there were some interesting pieces.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I was through the modern section and the Installation Art (which I understand even less) my eyes were pretty much crossed and it was time to go. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As usual, this museum would take multiple visits. I didn't even look at any of the statues on exhibit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I left, a nice shot of the museum pool with the Rosenborg Palace behind. I did see somebody sitting on one of the chairs in the water earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Copenhagen Jazz Festival is starting today, so the Palace grounds were full of people listening to the group there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's an entrepreneur at the festival - a cute little 3 wheeled coffee wagon with a real Cappuccino machine in the back. Add ice cream and I'll bet she's making a killing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a question for all you female fashion types - how would you like to have to contend with cobblestones in spike heels? It looks dangerous to me!</span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-69759060277741956482018-07-05T22:58:00.001-07:002018-07-05T22:58:09.636-07:00July 5 - Still Lots to Do in Copenhagen<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Packed up the bike this morning, It managed to fit reasonably well into the box I was given. So, that officially makes the cycling portion of the trip over - unless I rent a bike 😢</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have to make up some maps of the ride and hopefully post them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off for a walk to ultimately check out the Little Mermaid (can't come to Copenhagen and not do that).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the way, walked around the Citadel, an old 'star fortress' (due the shape). The ramparts are well preserved and nice to walk around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is still active as a military area, but very subdued & peaceful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of these barracks style buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love these old mortars - probably more dangerous to those who were firing them than the targets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here she is - The Little Mermaid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until you zoom out with the camera - then chaos. Half a dozen tour buses disgorging folks, everybody getting selfies with her (you don't need a picture of me with her). I will admit it was fairly easy to get pictures of her without being photo bombed. People were being respectful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From another angle. The little gal has been abused in her life: head cut off (three times I think), arm cut off, paint poured over and blown off the rock with explosives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's tough being a celebrity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Peace Angel Statue</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> statue nearby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A nearby lamp standard with this guy on top!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearby also is St. Alban's Church with the fountain & statues in front.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Copenhagen has modern buildings as well - the Opera House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somebody</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moored nearby</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> who couldn't get</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> into the local yacht club. Called Avantis. 200 feet long - crew of 16 or 18 (I guess the wife doesn't have to cook).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original owner sold this one and built one a hundred feet longer - maybe because it didn't have a helicopter pad on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stopped by the Marble Church on the way back. Not very old. Designed in 1749, but various (mostly financial) issues and problems kept it from being finished until 1894. It stood partially finished as a ruin for 150 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is basically a round room supported by 12 pillars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last photo today - our restaurant for dinner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tony, Michele & I had fish and chips at this floating restaurant just down the way from the hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First church: Holmens Church. What struck me was the wood. Lots of it and beautiful. As I understand it, the church was founded around the 1600's to serve the sailors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note then model ship. It was added in 1904, based on a 1697 drawing of an admiral's ship.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second church, which is no longer a church. This is calle dthe Rundetaarn, or Round Tower. The old church is behind the buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The top of the tower is now used as a sightseeing point with city views.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This circular ramp makes 7 circuits around the tower before it turns into stairs for the final climb.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if anybody has ever snuck a skateboard up here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of views of the city from the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe this is the Marmorkirken, or Marble Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the steeple of the church attached to the tower.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is an art gallery in the old church, but nothing that struck me, other than this clock. What time is it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to Holmens Church for the second half of an organ concert. Rather nice. Of course, I couldn't recognize any of the selections, but thew organist played his own composition at the end and it was interesting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met one of the other riders at the church (Becky), so we went to lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the classic postcard view of Copenhagen. Since I'm saving you the price of a postcard, I think you should send me a quarter. 😀</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our lunch restaurant is the green one (I think).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the shady seats outside were taken, so we sat inside. Here's the view from our seat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After lunch I headed for Rosenborg Castle. Here's some of the gardens. They have had so little rain recently that the lawns are suffering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two views of the castle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What impressed me inside was how ornate everything is. The castle is Danish Renaissance, dating from 1606.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a view of plaster and painted ceiling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />A large tapestry</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coronation thrones in the Knight's hall, protected by 3 silver lions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is an online tour of the castle that you can access with your smartphone during the tour (me - wot smartphone?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go to this link and click on the picture "Your Tour Starts Here."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.kongernessamling.dk/en/rosenborg/castle-history/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, it was off to the Botanical Gardens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This area had a number of displays about beer making and the associated plants. The details are lost on me, but I like the result. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Butterfly house with some greenhouses in front. Might go into it later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the gardens I dropped into a museum called the David Collection. It is a huge display of Islamic items. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I only made it through the top floor (beginnings of Islam to about the 10th century) before my eyes glazed over and I had to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got back to the hotel to meet a bunch of riders from 'Pub Ride 2,' the group that was 3 days behind us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talked to them for a while. We (Pub Ride 1) was thanked many times for ironing out the bumps on the tour, notably that they eliminated most of the cycle convoys that proved problematic for us. They went off for their 'Last Supper.'</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-18165651770860544632018-07-04T01:32:00.002-07:002018-07-05T02:17:09.305-07:00July 3 - Copenhagen to Fredenborg to Kronborg<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizI1F8OLWnqLaTBp9ZfjNydT9K2FAHw9UzZrMDKjGisCPi07wKc1cdrsVEPJIvRUFxZrLs0gaLYZ9LuPU9hfDZ7DNHwa0ZrQphvZIQbL7TSSnpVbPDjRe0bV-cSD4ARO5LnUWIXXPtHX4/s1600/aa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizI1F8OLWnqLaTBp9ZfjNydT9K2FAHw9UzZrMDKjGisCPi07wKc1cdrsVEPJIvRUFxZrLs0gaLYZ9LuPU9hfDZ7DNHwa0ZrQphvZIQbL7TSSnpVbPDjRe0bV-cSD4ARO5LnUWIXXPtHX4/s320/aa.JPG" width="241" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 110 km trip today for a round trip north of Copenhagen. I used F.R.E.D. (FRED for short) to plan the tracks we would follow. Now, the cynics in the crowd would probably scoff at this, but I think he did a pretty fair job, since he can't speak Danish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's where we went: Started at Copenhagen (bottom), up to Fredenborg (the Summer Palace), over to Kronborg Castle (Helsingor), and back down the coast road to Copenhagen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way up we went through little towns, but no industrial areas, so it was very pleasant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's one idyllic house beside a pond.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The villages changed to farmland further north. The farming doesn't seem quite as intensive as the Netherlands and Germany.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got caught on a speed sign on the way up. Honest, 'Din Fart' means 'your speed.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived in Fredenborg and immediately found a nice spot for coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm guessing this is the royal pennant or ensign. We were too early for a tour, so we headed around the perimeter on our bikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This long lane of trees heads down to the lake on the west side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A boathouse on the lake. It looks like they stack 2 or 3 boats inside and store more outside on a short (50 foot) canal to the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lane goes directly from the palace to the lake. I guess the Royals use this path when they want to go down to the lake to bag a fish for dinner, or take a sunset cruise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> After Fredenborg we head east to Kronberg Castle. Michel had a flat, which we fixed. FRED then found a nice unpaved lane to follow. Unfortunately, this turned out to be too much for Michel's fragile tubes & she had two more flats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FRED then found us the way back onto the pavement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A metal sculpture plan of the castle and the surrounding battlements and moats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This castle was immortalized as Elsinore in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (I don't know any of this stuff, I have to look it up - thank you Wikipedia). It is an important Renaissance Castle an UNESCO World Heritage site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The north side of the castle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The strait between here and Sweden is only 4 km wide, so this was an important strategic location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, I'm not sure why, but this beautiful part of the castle looks out on the strait towards Sweden. If I was invading, those windows would be a easy target. The Swedes did invade in 1658 and took many valuables as war booty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A family vacationing in the moat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stop for an ice cream cone (licorice, yum) and then head out. As we head out of town we find a bike shop and stock up on tubes, no doubt guaranteeing no more problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nice commuter bike. The price (6500 Kr) is about $1300 in Canadian Pesos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A boat harbour on the way down. We stopped here for a cold drink (to paraphrase Napoleon, armies & cyclists travel on their stomachs)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I noticed this beautiful set of similar designed sloops. Probably local racers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The water from the road. Lots of beaches and people on them. The water seemed warm and there were lots of swimmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual, when we scoot into a town, I'm too busy staring at FRED and other cyclists to take photos. No problems getting back to the hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a couple of beer in the hotel, a snack for dinner and crashed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a beautiful morning again, so I'm off to WALK around.</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-41361987421104034462018-07-02T13:10:00.001-07:002018-07-02T13:10:51.419-07:00July 2 - Around Copenhagen <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjn46VXh9w7Y7i0BWohP0f8O9wTwhQB4pyKJauJABnRkqExz1zxZ92D-8FaZGsdCe5VmD_lgrixHn6feScvBA_qjlwJwg__vLld8YG23sgS4nOMea3vUeOS88Nw7Q_uaphTtn-rPPd-qg/s1600/aIMG_3161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1037" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjn46VXh9w7Y7i0BWohP0f8O9wTwhQB4pyKJauJABnRkqExz1zxZ92D-8FaZGsdCe5VmD_lgrixHn6feScvBA_qjlwJwg__vLld8YG23sgS4nOMea3vUeOS88Nw7Q_uaphTtn-rPPd-qg/s320/aIMG_3161.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breakfast buffet in the hotel, talk to various other riders who are in various states of relaxation or panic, depending on their plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I set off for a walk around the canal in front of the hotel. This is the view from the front door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the distance is this church tower with the serpentine spire. It is called Church of our Saviour - I'll try to get up it for the view sometime later this week..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first 'official' stop today is the Tivoli Gardens Amusement Park. It has the 'standard' rids, but they look very old and colourful. Also, they are packed in very tightly, giving the park a different feel than, say, the PNE Midway..</span></div>
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Leaving the Railway Station and heading through the shopping district. This is called the 'Holy Ghost' Church, founded in 1238 and finished in 1594. It burned in the great Copenhagen fire of 1728.<br />
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I happened to look into a canal at the right time and saw these broze statues in the water - the light was just right. They are called 'Agnete & the Mermen.' The statues were installed in 1992. Reminds me - I have to put The Little Mermaid on my todo list.<br />
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We don't know why this tower has a pink ring. I asked at the hotel desk and they hadn't even seen it.<br />
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The church might be the St. Nikolaj Church. Mr. Gogle can't help me out. I'll keep digging, intrepid reporter that I am 😃<br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-10090271484710772532018-07-02T01:21:00.002-07:002018-07-02T01:21:48.422-07:00July 1 - Sakskobing to Copenhagen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0foiS18K9Comu7w7l7zbt54M-0pPWF-j6W4PQ1TnJnkiRBU4Rgx9BzZQQNvz0qSLFQtDg_o4x5WibB7UgWpPUlb8zNfMFdb79khuX50nnjxeY8M2xnXfdSDBe5dhH-pEDmtvBab6yAO8/s1600/aIMG_3106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1037" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0foiS18K9Comu7w7l7zbt54M-0pPWF-j6W4PQ1TnJnkiRBU4Rgx9BzZQQNvz0qSLFQtDg_o4x5WibB7UgWpPUlb8zNfMFdb79khuX50nnjxeY8M2xnXfdSDBe5dhH-pEDmtvBab6yAO8/s320/aIMG_3106.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Last day of the tour - 125 km into Copenhagen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First photo - this is from the top of our highest hill - the bridge at Orhoved</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very nice bonus today. Klaus, who was on our South America ride (more correctly, we were with him), met us in Sakskobing yesterday and invited the South American crowd for coffee & Danish at his house in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vordingborg. A very nice visit ! Here we are getting ready to go - that's Klaus' wife Helle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Thatched roofs - I've seen this a couple of times - they thatch the peak and then hold it down with wood pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're right on the river - one of the canals nearby. There are some really swish boats here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is actually a time of high activity for some in the group, as they need to pack up their cycles and head out in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I have time I hose myself down (ie. shower) and head out for a walk before dinner. Here is the Amalienborg Palace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The statue in the square in front of the palace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's Monday now - I told you this would be late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's missions: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Clean up my junk!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Walk about town</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Suss out some shopping</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Plan a cycle trip for tomorrow. EH? A group of us are considering a 108 km circuit to Kronborg Castle (inspired Hamlet), Fredenborg Palace (the summer palace) and back.... Maybe some of us got too much sun yesterday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will try to put more photos in tonight.</span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-71334031016998505632018-06-30T13:53:00.002-07:002018-06-30T13:53:48.536-07:00June 30 - Lutjenburg to Sakskobing<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last morning in Germany and the 2nd last day of the Pub Ride. Another beautiful day. We ride 62 km to the ferry, on it for 45 minutes and then another 27 km to Sakskobing, Denmark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very similar countryside to the last few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another hay bale person, announcing the sale of Strawberries (Erdbeeren). I think this was a U-Pick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First glimpse of the Baltic Sea (Howachter Bucht or Bay).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look carefully at the far field, you see pairs of tractor wheel tracks. They use these for access instead of putting roads in the fields, maximizing the crops. And it looks nice when done well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crossing the bridge to Fehrmarn Island, with the ferry terminal at Puttgarden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hardly a breeze can get through there without getting picked up by a turbine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of our first bike paths. This is a 2 way version for bikes only. Note the dotted line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Germany and the Netherlands cities, bike paths were often designated with red bricks in the sidewalk. Here, they use a solid white line to separate humans and bikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Hotel in Sakskobing. The hotel name (Hotel Saxkjobing) is spelled differently than the town name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An after dinner walk up a street in search of some ice cream. Didn't find any - it's Saturday night, they've rolled up the town and apparently I walked in the wrong direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the church - the arrangement of the windows (eyes & mouth), clock (nose) and lines in the brickwork (cheeks) kind of gives it an astonished or worried expression. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, check out the first white house on the right. The 3 windows to the right of the door are not aligned, almost in an arc. I don't now if this is wall settling, or intentional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I notice some of the oddest things, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little further up the street is this park or cemetery. It's walled off with a 3 foot wall and a locked gate, so I didn't get nosey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another street - this one seems to have more upscale houses. I walked up another that was tree lined and all the houses were set back far enough for front yards and grass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The architecture isn't strikingly different than what I've seen in the previous countries, but there is an different feeling here. Perhaps it's me being apprehensive because I can't speak a word of Danish. No problem though, because many of them know enough English to sort us out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bit of bad news. We were warned prices are expensive over here. Two 1/2 litre draft beers set me back over $19 Canadian. This is due to the Danish tax system. Apparently, if you want to buy a lot of beer for a party it is cheaper to buy Danish beer in Germany and bring it back over on the ferry instead of buying it here. We saw at least one car on the ferry fully loaded with beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off to Copenhagen tomorrow. We are having a big wind up dinner, so I might not be writing anything until the next day.</span>Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-38357277186960336272018-06-29T13:19:00.000-07:002018-06-29T13:32:29.589-07:00June 29 - Hamburg to Lutjenburg<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another beautiful morning to ride. We convoyed out of Hamburg, which took longer than expected. We kept getting separated by traffic lights necessitating waits to catch up, some navigational miscues and a flat tire. But we made it eventually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was cute. See the little tiny girl in front of the man in the white shirt. She inserted herself into the front of our line and wasn't going to let any cyclist pass her! She was just pounding away on her push scooter. That's her mother on the left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We see very young kids out cycling on tiny bikes. They're learning at a young age and don't seem to have a fear of bicycle traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once out of the city we had beautiful farmland to cycle through. It is a bit more rolling now, not dead flat. We have been seeing ripening grain crops (wheat, barley?) and a lot of corn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of our route is on cycle paths parallel to the road. Some are very smooth, some not so much with roots pushing up the pavement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We managed to find a small bakery for a mid morning coffee & goody stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lunch roughly half way along in a nice shady spot beside the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spotted this barn just past the lake. The left gable window and underneath the two dormers are what appear to be wire cages, but no window glass. Balconies for free range chickens, perhaps?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a bit calmer near the north end of the lake. All in all, a very pleasant ride.</span><br />
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My first stop was Miniatur Wunderland, the world's largest model railway. It's unbelievable and much more than just railroads. Models of part of cities, all sorts of cars & trucks going everywhere & an (almost) fully operational airport. </div>
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The ocean liner Costa Pacifica tied up being provisioned. It is 290 metres long, 114,000 GT ( I assume gross tonnes) and has an 8.2 metre draft. That's 27 feet, which gives an indication of the minimum channel and harbour depths required.</div>
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This shot shows the contrasts of Hamburg harbour. In front is Landungsbrucken, a centre for tourism; behind are visible some of harbour cranes for containers and other cargo.</div>
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Another adventure - a tour of an old Russian sub. Give this one a miss. I toured one years ago in Victoria and should know better.<br />
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A walk through the Alter Elbtunnel. It's about 1200 feet long. There are stairs and elevators at each end to access it. Cars can use it as well. It is a pair of tunnels, but one is out of service at the moment. The best thing about walking through the tunnel - it was nice & cool down there on a hot day.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to talk about this sign. It was on a bridge. The top part seems straight forward. If there is only one truck on the bridge it can be up to 100 tonnes, if two are there together then the limit is 50 tonnes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what's with the bottom sign? One tank at 70 tonnes verses 2 at 40 tonnes? I've seen this sign in a number of places, but have not seen one, let alone two tanks. Of course, this area of Europe has been relatively heavily militarized at times since the World Wars, although we haven't seen much on this trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're in Hamburg now, heading for the hotel. We had some interesting times navigating around construction at one of the suburban rail stations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our first crossing of the river (the Suderelbe) there are 4 bridges in parallel: A railroad bridge, two for vehicles (we were on one of these) and a pedestrian / cycle bridge. This photo is of the stone abutment arch at the north end of the pedestrian bridge. Because our bridge has huge pedestrian / bike sidewalks, I wonder if this bridge's days are numbered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further along another bridge - this one caught my eye because of the interesting arched trusses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This bridge had 2 sidewalks, 3 lanes each way for traffic and two lanes in the middle that were empty (rush our bus traffic perhaps).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are lots of waterways and a huge number of bridges over them. If I photographed all of them, I'd still be out there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dean and I were riding together and we decided to stop at St. Nikolas' Church ruins. Read the plaque to the left to get the history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The largest section of the church that's still standing. The bombing did no destroy the tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top of the tower - I had to go down the street to get a decent angle. When built in the 1800's it was the tallest structure in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're at the hotel now. I'm in the 4th floor - a smallish room with a sloping roof. Looking out my window I can see this square, set up with a big screen so the public can watch the Germany / South Korea World Cup Match. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boisterous at the beginning, but very subdued at the end after Germany lost and was eliminated from the Worle Cup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A statue of Kaiser Wilhelm tucked away in a park we went by after dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is a free day in Hamburg. I've booked a ticket to Miniatur Wonderland (the world's largest scale model train setup. Then I'll think about either a harbour tour or a walking tour about the centre of the city, which we are near to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onto today's journey & sights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is a Schloss. Translated it's a castle, but I think it can also be a very fine house or estate. We were too early to look around, but I did look over the fence out back and saw some exquisitely trimmed trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pleasant pond of the side of the road (I ventured here on a 'business' trip). I think it was a small camping ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw a couple of these - thatched roof houses with a section of metal roof at the peak. I assume the peak of a thatched roof is more vulnerable and needs special protection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see a lot of metal roofs over here, and most of these are made to look like classical tile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrating the patience of Europeans: the traffic gates came down very early. The train stopped at the station about half a km down the track. Once it finished, it finally traversed the road crossing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impatient North Americans would probably have gone around the traffic gates if they could see the train stopped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Roadside fruit stand in the middle of a village - not uncommon. Selling asparagus and strawberries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of strawberries, here's my snack at the bakery next door. Cappuccino and strawberry cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're finally in the land of plentiful cafes. We've barely seen any on the trip so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somebody is having fun with hay bales. The make "marshmallow" bales over here as well - I've seen white, green and black 'marshmallows' in various fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the British Isles they use little red trucks for rural mail delivery. In Germany Deutsche Post uses little yellow trucks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The postal lady, stops the bike, kicks down the small wheels to hold the bikes and delivers the mail. Onto the bike, kick the wheels back and off to the next house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I followed this recumbent trike down road in Bremen for a bit. It turns out it is electric. And he had a boom box on board as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a shot from the train platform. Ten platform tracks and two additional through tracks for freight. It looks just like the train stations in old European movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside the train station isn't too exciting as it has all been converted to a food court. Ticketing is done by vending machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a park on the far side of the train station and was renamed to Nelson Mandela park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In it is this tile statue of an elephant. It was originally conceived as a colonial memorial, but was rededicated to symbolize anti-colonialism (I think). The info I have is a bit fuzzy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a plaque near the front of the elephant, but there was also a pack of slightly drunk and seemingly boorish gentlemen right there. So I gave the plaque a pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two sailing ships in the river that we saw on our way in. This one is a floating restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is called the Alexander von Humboldt. In Wikipedia there is reference to an Alexander von Humboldt II as a sail training vessel. I don't know if this is it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which brings up another question. The two nearby upstream and downstream bridges (both non-opening), are both too low for the Alex von to get under. So, who knows?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is a 122 km ride into Hamburg. There are some hills on this one, so it's off to bed to try and kick this cold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A wooden bike. I spotted this outside an apartment building near our hotel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It looks like a heavy beast, but I didn't lift it up to check.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way out of Zwolle:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An interesting marine themed set of sculptures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another picture of boats in a canal. These were nice looking, upscale boats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Typical flat countryside on the way. Crops include corn, wheat, barley, potatoes & hay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very large fields. We only saw one field being irrigated, but everything looks very green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the border with Germany. That's Steve confirming it with his Phone / GPS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The borders are practically transparent. It would be interesting to find out what would have been here before the EEC (1957) or the EU (1993). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just inside Germany we saw this farm with a large solar panel array on the roof. I think this is the largest array we've seen associated with a private residence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little further along we saw a very large array covering a number of acres of field. The array was a fixed type (ie. did not move with the sun). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the "My Mother raised a dull child department:" I passed two signs with "Twist" (the next town) crossed out. Not thinking what this meant, I pedaled merrily along until ..... the road was completely blocked by construction. So I pedaled merrily back to this sign and saw the Detour (Umleitung auf Deutsch). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part of the detour was on a dirt path alongside a corn field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A bit further along, another surprise - an oil pump jack. We saw about 4, of which 2 were operating. This was the only painted one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entering Meppen, crossing the Emse River:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a campsite with lots of pup tents and some canoes on the other side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later on, in the open plaza there are a large number of loaded touring bikes, so we aren't the only touring group in town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't know where these folks are staying - they saddled up about 3:30 and may have left town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Meppen dates back to 945, when emperor Otto the Great granted the town the rights to mint coins and collect tolls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the Town Hall (Rathaus) which dates back to 1408, but has had extensive renovations since.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In general, the town did not seem that old; most of the buildings appear fairly modern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The is the Gymnasium Church (Roman Catholic), built from 1743 to 1746. It doesn't have the look of a building that old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By contrast the Priory Church of Meppen looks very old. From my reading of Wikipedia there has been a building on this site from the 9th century, but the church took this form in the 13th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Close up of the tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're staying in the Hotel von Euch, very modern, but possibly noisy (bell tower?). There are complimentary ear plugs in the rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's it for today. Tomorrow's ride is longer (129 km), but still quite flat. </span><br />
<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-46046748694511063872018-06-24T13:40:00.000-07:002018-06-24T13:40:23.557-07:00June 24 - Amsterdam to Zwolle<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today started off with a 20 km convoy out of Amsterdam. Some of the riders don't like convoys, but this one was enjoyable. Sunday morning, early, minimal traffic; not anywhere near as crazy as coming into Amsterdam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were lead through Rembrandtpark (near our hotel), then Vondelpark, then through the streets. Very pleasant, but no pix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A typical cycle crossing of a road. Note the bicycle signal light. Also, they have sensors in the road to sense bikes before the intersections and turn our signals green. Talk about good service!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rather pretty boat further along. If you look carefully at the base of the mast you can see the 'tabernacle,' the fitting that the mast pivots on when it is lowered.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well maintained boat - just the spar varnish cost alone would keep you in the poorhouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't taken any pictures of signs, but this one floored me. The two words are 'doorrijhoogte varieert.' It was the first word that caught my attention - 4 'o' & 2 'r'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It translates to 'clearance height varies.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We passed a long line of cars stopped on the road beside us. Accident? Nope. The bridge was up while they loaded 7 boats into the lock. The bridge was down just as we arrived, but we watched for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A long stretch of bicycle lanes & single lane traffic. Look! A hill in the distance. That stretch was over 5 km.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know it's a slow day for photos when we stop for chickens. But check out the feathered feet on these guys. Any idea what breed of chicken they are? I asked Mr. Google and got two possibilities: Cochins or silkies. I think cochin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've made it to Zwolle and are in our modern new hotel, the Lumen. It's on the outside of town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you guess which room the cyclists are in? (It's not mine)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got in, showered & took a short walk to town. On the way, this building, a hospital. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Along the canal was this line of old working boats, probably converted to liveaboards now. The one up front was an old sailboat with leeboards (side retractable keels) and a broken mast. It certainly had seen better days. These boats were a similar style with very stubby prows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around the next corner of the canal is a much neater looking group of boats - the higher rent district?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a map of Zwolle, showing some islands in the canals. The boats in rough shape are at the upper right on the map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The older part of Zwolle is on the larger of the two islands. The map also shows the relationship between canals and cities and their interdependence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, that's it for today. Nothing too exciting and a quiet Sunday evening in a smaller city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we cross into Germany, heading for Meppen.</span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-53924963123713134312018-06-23T13:24:00.002-07:002018-06-23T13:24:50.197-07:00June 23 - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another day off in Amsterdam, so I hustled my butt out to the big museum, the Rijksmuseum early to avoid the crowds, along with the thousands that were there early avoiding crowds. After spending a few hours there, I high tailed it back to the room for some rest as Montezuma seems to have taken an interest in me ('nuf said).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I'll show you a few pieces and Julie, who was there recently, can correct what I say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Merry Family, by Steen (1642).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The discussion about this painting centred around all the bad habits these people had, but the fun they had with them. The fellow in the back is playing a set of bagpipes and they think that it is Steen inserting a self portrait into the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two sailing canvases. I forgot the details about this one, except that the foremast has broken. (I guess I lose my Junior Woodchuck Art Appreciation badge for not knowing who did this).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like this one too; "Dutch Ships in a Calm Sea, by van de Velde II (1663).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was surprised they let you take photos, although there wasn't any flash photography.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry about all the crooked photos - I tried to keep the photo bombers at bay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the bottom left is a dog swimming toward the Swan, which apparently is the reason for the kerfuffle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one stuck me, because it so captures a PO'd swan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the big prize, the reason for this gallery - The Night Watch by Rembrandt, 1642. It is gigantic, about 12 x 14 FEET.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It depicts the Military Company of District 2 heading out for a patrol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story behind this painting, including how it was hidden during WW2, is worth reading. I have no idea how he obtained everybody's likeness - I assume multiple sittings for each participant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is probably in contention for having the most selfies taken of it, including Obama.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Maybe Trump will try to one up Obama by having his photo taken at a sex shop).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bad Greg - shouldn't say nasty things!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onward. I liked these two landscapes,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind the painting gallery, was a display of sculptures. This one, "Typanum," made by Quellinus in 1648. The purpose? A practice model for his proposal for the much larger decorative gable at the new Town Hall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upstairs from the paintings is a gallery of modern art. I included this one because I liked the vase and the contrast in colour with the chair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was also a short film showing how the Dutch dammed out the ocean after WW2 to reclaim some land. Very interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I popped through some of the other galleries, but the cultural overload was taking hold (engineers are particularly sensitive to this).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at the detail in this cabinet - its a fully stocked Apothecary, possibly used for training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the detail in this plaster fireplace mantle. It must have been commissioned by the male of the household - would a wife want a dust collector like this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a table orrery (good Scrabble word, eh Judy?). It's a working model showing how the planets revolve around the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last photo is of the museum library. Notable for the massive amount of books - I think they said about 15 km, possibly including the collections we couldn't see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also notable was the use of cast iron in the structure of the wing holding the library. It allowed the architect to make the columns lighter and thinner than stone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for the museum - I have lots more photos, but no need to bore you. I spent about 3 hours there - I'd probably need another half dozen trips to fully appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last photo of Amsterdam is of a canal in the Old Quarter. It still boggles me how they seem to have so little trouble with foundations beside the canals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is a 20 km convoy out of town, followed by a 92 km ride to Zwolle.</span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-57412065426143076512018-06-22T14:29:00.003-07:002018-06-22T14:29:59.761-07:00June 22 - Around Amsterdam<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A day off & I have the sniffles. Nothing terrible, but.... Since I've got tickets booked to the museums I figured I'd take a go at it and buy more drugs as necessary during the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The national Monument, erected in 1956 to commemorate the casualties of WW2. I cut the top of the photo off; it is a rounded top with nothing fancy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the former main Post office and is now the Magna Plaza Shopping Centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A shot inside of the lobby. I did a bit of retail therapy here - bought a great piece of cheese. All day long, I'd stop and slice off a hunk for a snack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of other buildings in the square, but it was time to head toward the Anne Frank House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way there we passed the Westermarkt Church. It wasn't open today, but I figured I'd better include one church photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the only photo of the Anne Frank house - the lowest floor (black) has been restored to it's former look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No photos allowed inside the house / museum. You enter from around the corner and go through a number of exhibits before you get into their actual hiding place which was the upper 3 floors of the Annex behind this building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a very moving and respectful visit, reminding one of the tragic events surrounding the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Afterwards - the canal near the house. The yellow boat behind the tourist boat is a houseboat, with a rather dour individual looking out at those @#$@# tourists making waves in his front yard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of bike photos. I liked this one because the bikes (typical Amsterdam commuter bikes) were named "Stella." I looked it up - there is a bike manufacturer named Stella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one ain't named Stella! We have one tandem bike on the trip, driven by a lovely couple, Greg & Sue. I figure we could get them to switch to this one, so I could ride in the third seat sipping Lattes and there is a spare for somebody else to sit in while they carry snacks for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I won't hold my breath)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I met up with another rider and we had lunch. Afterwards, on my way to the van Gogh Museum I ran into (or rather, saw) this. Is it what I think it is? There are drain grates in the sidewalk at each of the "cubicles."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leave a comment if you know what it is, or if you have used one of this type.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my way to the Museum Quarter, I passed this magnificent structure, the Rijksmuseum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Van Gogh Museum is a thoroughly modern building a ways past </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the Rijksmuseum. This is the special exhibits hall. The huge awning I'm under belongs to the Museum of Modern Art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent 3 hours between the van Gogh permanent exhibit and the special exhibit (van Gogh and Japan) and suffered serious cultural overload. Definitely get the audio tour if you go as it explains a lot of the background and techniques he used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are two paintings of the house he lived in for a while in Arles, France</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the museum, I used my tram pass for a quick trip down to the Central Station which is the main commuter terminal for buses, trams and railroads. I have a death wish if I wanted to show up there at evening rush hour!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at the bikes! Huge numbers, all chained up to racks. I don't know how people remember where their bikes are. In fact, I saw a couple of glazed eyed people stumbling around, either looking for their bike or a place to lock it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A rather pretty building I noticed on my way back from the Central Station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Another rest day tomorrow, but don't now what I'm doing yet. Depends on my developing cold and also what's available, since it's Saturday and I haven't booked ahead.</span></div>
Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-78474685411298717562018-06-21T14:34:00.000-07:002018-06-21T14:34:18.398-07:00June 21 - Breda to Amsterdam<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were warned about headwinds today and they sure happened. Our route was basically going north from Breda to Amsterdam and we had northwest headwinds all day. At times we were pedaling hard enough top be going 30 km/h, but were only doing 20. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of our first stops was at this windmill. There were a number of this style. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A close up from the back side, showing the stairs to the top, which are fixed to the windmill and swing around as the upper part is turned into the wind. The red & white wheel has a chain tied to anchor blocks - the operator rotates this wheel to change the direction the windmill faces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other style of windmill. We didn't see any of these operating in today's wind - they are likely replaced by pumps installed nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A stop in a pretty little village for coffee and apple pie. Their apple pie is excellent! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of our group enjoying the stop. We debated whether we should avoid the headwind by turning around and running downwind back to Breda, and then putting our bikes on the train to Amsterdam. Probably not a bad idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we are riding along the top of one of the large dikes. The land on the right side is significantly higher than the left. There are houses both sides. I'm not sure about this - is the dike protecting only the land on one side?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little further along we saw this large barge in the canal with a pusher tug propelling it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a short ferry ride across a large canal on this rather sleek looking vessel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of two ferry rides on the day. The other ferry (sorry, no pix), was much smaller and was propelled by 'crawling' along a cable strung tightly across the river, about 3 feet above the water. When we asked how boats would get by, we were told that the ferry would dock on one side and then loosen the cable so it was deep enough under the water for the boat to pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just past the ferry we saw this side channel with all these boats. The wooden sailboat in front was particularly pretty and in good shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further along, this drawbridge with a date of 1883 on the top - we assume this is when it was built.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And we got just got over the drawbridge when it was raised for a cabin cruiser to pass. The process took less than 10 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is typical of houses for many houses along the canals - very little elevation difference between the water and the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would this be considered waterfront?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more photos as we got into Amsterdam. Even with separate bike paths almost all the way it was crazy. One confounding issue - small motorized bikes & mopeds are allowed on the cycle lanes. So, on the side of the street you have houses, a pedestrian sidewalk, a 6 foot (or less) wide cycle path, then parked bikes or the roadway. Cyclists, mopeds and pedestrians are coming in and out of the cycle path, or crossing it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You would hear a beep over your left shoulder, then move 8 inches to the right and a moped or cycle passes by with inches of clearance. I got stuck behind a cyclist carrying a bass fiddle on his back. Most of us agreed it was hair raising. I would have liked to have a GoPro on my helmet to record the mayhem - but I might never cycle again if I looked at the movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once into our hotel, I showered and then took my laundry out to the "Wasserette" for cleaning. Having an hour to kill, I leaned up against a wall to take some photos of life in the Amsterdam streets. This was a quiet street relative to the one we came in on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can see a moped crowding by a bicycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a cute little rig. It looks like your standard scooter, but note the plate our young driver is standing on. He pumps this up and down and it propels the scooter forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A line of cycles chained up to a railing. Anywhere a chain can be connected is fair game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bicycle signal light has turned green and a group of riders surges forward. Note the fellow with the case of Amstel beer on his handlebars. They were carrying anything and everything on their bikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This looks like a regular old stairway, right? Nope. Cyclists use the ramps on the side to get their cycles up the stairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw a lady jump off her fast moving bike and run up the stairs two at a time wheeling her bike up the side ramp. She jumped back on again and continued along without missing a beat. The whole process took 5 or 6 seconds - you couldn't carry your bike up that quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Culture day tomorrow. I've booked tickets to Anne Frank's house and the Van Gogh museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TTFN. </span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-88997737004539464932018-06-20T13:20:00.000-07:002018-06-20T13:20:23.660-07:00June 20 - Brussels to Breda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, an apology - I did not fulfill my duties completely in reporting about Brussels. I told you about Manneken Pis, the peeing boy and I told you about Het Zinneke, the peeing dog. But I missed one - Jeanneke Pis - the peeing girl. I never found her, so I looked her up online and here's a picture. She is actually in a barred cage to protect her from vandalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early on in the ride we are stopped at a canal as the bridge has been lifted, waiting for this barge. The canal was quite large so the bridge was lifted straight up on 4 concrete pillars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still in Belgium we are entering Lier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is our view of the city hall as we stopped for a Cappuccino (and a free waffle!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We guessed the big screen was for either ''Lier Feest,' which might be a film festival, or for community watching the World Cup (or both).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Another view across the town square, showing the fancy gables we see on many of the buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were still in Belgium when we had lunch. Lunch is a do it yourself affair with sandwich makings, lots of juices and a chance to fill your water bottles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just past lunch is this, listed on our notes as the 'Geometric forest.' Don't know what its purpose is, perhaps somebody had way too much time with a set of hedge clippers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Netherlands now. Both Belgium and the Netherlands so far have been very neat and friendly looking. Check out this bike path beside the road, with trimmed hedges both sides.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A word about the cycling culture here. It is so strong that bicycles are respected and have the right of way in many circumstances that we would never consider in North America. For example, in this picture, if a car on the road in front of me wants to turn right onto a side road, he invariably stops & waits for me. Try to pass on the right in the same situation in North America and you would be road kill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The towns are very neat and clean, with a large fraction of modern houses. Farmland in between has a variety of market crops: potatoes, corn, beans, etc. We are seeing greenhouses (some large) more frequently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost all roads have bike paths, although one has to be aware in towns because the bike paths and pedestrian sidewalks are often side by side or one and the same. You have to watch out for pedestrians and other cyclists turning into your path. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotBFtV6UKsZHFH6p_7QIHE7tDuJ9zyKi4aFQVAVbsIWdfwBASuHPPb82z6TmWKhQGy70YVUaylgl8_zAYx5cJ5cORViTZMb4dxZmrs0DzQn6iqvPouUmlH1Byt2dgCFmoOeYTFVnymt4/s1600/aIMG_2534.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1037" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotBFtV6UKsZHFH6p_7QIHE7tDuJ9zyKi4aFQVAVbsIWdfwBASuHPPb82z6TmWKhQGy70YVUaylgl8_zAYx5cJ5cORViTZMb4dxZmrs0DzQn6iqvPouUmlH1Byt2dgCFmoOeYTFVnymt4/s320/aIMG_2534.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Netherlands now, approaching Breda. This is Kasteel Bouvigne. It was (is?) a private residence that has had a structure on it as early as 1554. It was destroyed by a V-1 rocket in 1941 and was rebuilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of shots near the centre of town. Lots of restaurants, bars and coffee houses on the streets. Lots of people enjoying themselves. The town had a very nice feel to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't bore you with more photos of the local church in the background (although it is pretty).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be nice to stay here a while and have coffee and pastries at a different street cafe each morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Near the hotel is the Kasteel van Breda (Breda Castle). It was closed so we couldn't get past the bridge over the moat, but I took a photo of the moat with its lily pads and geese with their goslings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Truth be told, we were downtown sampling various 'products' and had to get back for the riders meeting at the hotel).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of hotel, we are in the Apollo Hotel. Very modern and the most striking room to date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Too bad it gets wasted on cyclists with laundry to do..😀</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we are off to Amsterdam, and two (count 'em) rest days!</span><br />
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<br />Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-87254079316796958782018-06-19T12:29:00.000-07:002018-06-19T12:29:47.306-07:00June 19 - Around Brussels<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Free day in Brussels - cloudy with a bit of drizzle, but warm enough to not need a jacket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is all about architecture & statues. Oh yeah, a couple of waffles & some chocolates well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first stop is the Grand Place, the large square in the centre. Beautiful buildings all around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The square is dominated by the Town Hall, much larger than the rest with the incredible steeple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A covered shopping mall. It's still early, so not busy yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Away from the square is the Cathedral of Saint Michael & Saint Gudula.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside the cathedral, Note how the organ is suspended on the columns over the left side of the Nave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the wall of this cycle shop are 9 folding bikes. The tires are about 16 inches diameter (my bike has 27 inch), and the whole bike folds up nicely. Not a bad choice for traveling or taking on a bus or up to the office to prevent theft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This guy is called Manneken-Pis. First put in place in 1618, it is (apparently one of the best known symbols of Brussels).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is Het Zinneke, the piddling dog. He is relatively new, having been installed in 1998.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Wikipedia, he was hit by a car in 2015, and re-installed by the sculptor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lunch rime and a crepe and a waffle (both Belgian food groups). The crepe had chocolate sauce & ice cream. The waffle had strawberries (I asked for no cream as I'm on a diet).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice some smoke near the base of the arch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what was with the smoke? Turns out to be filming in progress. A group of people, dressed as peasants are hauling a flag draped carriage under the arch. Lots of shouting and yelling, and many takes while I was there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two buildings attached to the arch, one each side. One is the Art and History Museum, the other the Royal Military Museum. I had time for a quick tour of one of them.. Guess which one I chose? (sorry, Julie). </span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-42354611723223876292018-06-19T00:30:00.003-07:002018-06-19T00:32:31.084-07:00June 18 - Bruges to Brussels<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First - check back into my June 17 post as I added some more photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Onto June 18 - it was a dark & stormy looking morning; not as much tailwind as the day before and drizzle / light rain a few times. Flat countryside, so we can make good time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The city of Gent is on the way. A view as we enter it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the churches in Gent</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This style was typical of a number of buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A beautiful clock tower with flying buttresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The local trams. Negotiating cycles over the tracks is second nature for the locals, but us "foreigners" need to pay lots of attention to avoid getting caught.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many more beautiful sights in Gent, but time to move on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of two traditional windmills seen today. No doubt more to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lot of the roads in town & out have dedicated cycleways. Also, many Belgian flags hanging from balconies. Patriotic Belgians? Maybe. Perhaps the fact that Belgium as playing their first World Cup game later on had something to do about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary, one of the faster cyclists, was having problems with her (skinny) tires, so I gave her a hand, and then we scooted into Brussels. As usual, no photos on the way in due to traffic mayhem and me staring at F.R.E.D. in an attempt to navigate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My photo inside the pub didn't turn out so I stole one off the web.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June 19 now - a day off and it's still early. Time to do a little more bathtub laundry and then out for a wander. Possibly a Belgian Waffle & some chocolate .........</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-70707552599348396382018-06-17T14:09:00.003-07:002018-06-18T23:35:04.398-07:00June 17 - Dover to Bruges<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They spell it Brugge here - more about that later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A long day today in spite of it being only 84 km. the reasons include:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2-1/2 hours on the ferry and getting going</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-a side trip to Dunkirk beach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-a time zone change</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, instead of getting in about 1 pm. I got in at 4 pm which left little time for chores (shower, laundry, etc,) and exploring before the riders Meeting and dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Off we go. I said I'd try for better pictures of the White Cliffs and the castle. Here's what the ferry staff see when 29 people on cycles show up at the turnstiles. BTW, there are actually 33 of us including staff, but there are different regulations for groups bigger than 30, so we get 2 cyclists to ride in the trucks and the trucks go separately. Go figure. It works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About 10 km into our ride and 5 km north of the town centre, I detoured from the track and went to the beach. It's a large & beautiful sandy beach. I found a memorial to a paddle wheeler called the Crested Eagle. It was attacked by dive bombers during the evacuation and caught fire. The captain ran it aground in an attempt to save lives, but over 300 soldiers and crew perished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's it for France. 34 km into our ride we cross into Belgium with only a sign to indicate a change of country. First impressions: very flat, generally more modern looking homes than England with lots of farming and canals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They have drawbridges over the canals with interesting looking davit style cranes to lift the roadway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The country is much more bicycle friendly. Lots of wider roadways with space for cycle lanes both sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A group of local cyclists. Note the basket decorations. It was Sunday and the streets were relatively quiet. A lot of the cyclists I saw were riding at a relaxing pace. We'll see what that's like tomorrow as they head to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Near the end of the day I passed under this arch at the entrance to Bruges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bruges is a World Heritage Site which has been occupied since the Middle Ages. As I mentioned I had little time to look around, so here's a few shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St. James Church (or De Sint-Jakobskerk) is one of two that dominate the skyline. It is from the 1100's and has that Medieval look. I couldn't fit it into a single shot. Here's the tower from down the street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, from a bit closer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is one side of the main square. The square is quite large, fully paved with stone; the size gives it an open feeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another church in the distance. I don't know the name of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Depending on the schedule tomorrow I may take a bit more of a look around.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMuoPGU6kcc3YXZidiEloANJe0RzSHoHqik33fgzh9cvxX4wXQwMEawR1TSl6gDatKgEJA29-nk-SfBlN-KLc8chibJSo1VraOl2cT09zNsyDNeV2wWwTdelDkNai6xe_mBsxlwuPVM8/s1600/aIMG_2387.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1037" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMuoPGU6kcc3YXZidiEloANJe0RzSHoHqik33fgzh9cvxX4wXQwMEawR1TSl6gDatKgEJA29-nk-SfBlN-KLc8chibJSo1VraOl2cT09zNsyDNeV2wWwTdelDkNai6xe_mBsxlwuPVM8/s320/aIMG_2387.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June 18 now - I was able to get a look around Bruges. This tower is referred to at "Belfort" or belfry. Started in 1240, it served a number of purposes including a treasury, archives storage, bell tower and lookout for fires & other dangers. It was damaged / destroyed 3 times in its history. You can pay for the privilege of climbing the 366 steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inner courtyard and lower part of the tower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">View from in front. Note the gloomy and foreboding skies. Drizzle & showers on and off during the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I went to Befort I found the original main square of the town. Totally awesome architecture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last view and a shot of one of the canals as I leave town</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evidence of the Belgian cycling culture. There were at least 50 cyclists stacked up at the light. I only managed to get my camera out for the last half. Belgian drivers have to be very aware of cyclists and must have a lot of patience. It would take many, many years for this culture to be accepted in North America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, that's what I saw as I left Bruges.</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-26415449436062925092018-06-16T13:08:00.001-07:002018-06-16T13:08:09.038-07:00June 16 - Gillingham to Dover<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">87 km of cycling today. I got into Dover fairly early, so I climbed the hill to Dover Castle just for fun (?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we saw this style of chimney for the first time. It is called a "Kentish" chimney and is used for drying hops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were stopped at this level crossing. The local train unloads, loads up and takes its time leaving. The gates stay down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing is happening. Why?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then WHOOSH! The Eurostar flies by in a huge hurry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the nicest countryside photos yet. I'm finally high enough on a hill overlooking the farmlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For total contrast, here's the view from where we had lunch. That massive railyard is the assembly point for the Chunnel trains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would take 3 shots to give a complete panorama of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearby is the Battle of Britain Memorial. Replicas of two of the British fighters (Spitfire shown here) with numerous storyboards. Also a log low wall with Winston Churchill's famous quote ("Never in the field of human conflict ...") carved into it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't resist added this, "The Squadron Dog." Way too cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that, a very nice 10 km downhill shot into Dover. Into my room, shower and off up the hill to Dover Castle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's this tree, Laura? It was on the path up to the castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dover Castle was built by King Henry II in the 1180's. It commanded the routes into England which consolidated Hank's power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These first two photos are looking either way from the portico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is Henry II's Great tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A view towards France from the roof of the tower. Some of the buildings were added as late as the 1800's. One is still used as a regimental barracks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recreation of one of the great rooms in the tower. There were also recreations of the Throne Room, the main Bed Chamber and the Kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During WWII Dover Castle was the headquarters for Operation Dynamo, the Rescue From Dunkirk. All this was housed in secret tunnels (some from the 1700's) dug into the chalk cliffs. I had an interesting tour of this (but photos not allowed).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're staying in a pretty waterfront hotel (my room looks back). A nice combination of old styling upgraded with modern fixtures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, this is my only photo of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is a 5 ayem get up, no breakfast and onto the ferry to Dunkirk. We pedal through France to Bruges in Belgium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we leave I'll try for better photos of the cliff and one of the entire castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now it's hit the hay time. Dinner was late & slow and 0500 comes awfully early.</span><br />
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Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661167481118313750.post-16613868140442795352018-06-15T13:12:00.000-07:002018-06-15T13:44:31.713-07:00June 15 - London to Gillingham<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Getting out of London was easier than coming in. We had a short convoy and then were on our own. Most of the route was near the Thames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We crossed London bridge, which gave me the opportunity to go off the track and get a nice shot of Tower Bridge in the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a bit further along, in Greenwich is the replica of the Cutty Sark, the famous tea clipper originally built in 1869. Rather beautiful and appears to have most of the original rigging configuration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same location is this entrance to a Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Built at the turn of the 20th Century, its been in service since. It is 1200 feet long about 9 feet in diameter and lined with 200,000 white tiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's hard to tell, but off to the left side of the tunnel entrance on the far side of the Thames is Canary Wharf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The Greenwich area is also home to a number of museums, including the Royal Observatory, the National Maritime Museum and Queen's House art gallery. A photo of the Maritime Museum. No time to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the street is this small shop with all the interesting statues. The old British Bulldog got my attention when I pedaled by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Off course again to have a look at the Thames Barrier. The tidal range in the Thames is over 20 feet, so a high tide with climate change and a storm could wreak havoc. So, between the structures are barriers that are raised hydraulically when necessary. I was fascinated by all the info. but I won't bore you with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A reminder that the Thames is a working river with boats ranging in size from a few tens of feet to ocean going freighters. This guy caught my eye because of how low in the water he was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We rode a cycle trail more or less along the river for about 15 km. I noticed this sign while I was with one of the guest riders. He pointed out that this was a bicycle trail marker, with trail distances from this point to Inverness (1191 miles) and to Dover (106 miles).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I forgot to mention - every now and then a TDA Cycling alumni will join us for day or so, to renew friendships with TDA cyclists and staff and, in this case, help guide us down the Thames.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgaVtFiAuOYiNSrRxMhqaU95kI_ZeJa3kdglqogprVnJ0FVhnyhx127z8hJrfegtyWyzp1B9wXQ1VgDHcQc7hcaEnHxo8dPHb0-zdrevPJOP09CCpofsedaZB9D5-S5bUqUhNct_gcRo/s1600/aIMG_2262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1037" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgaVtFiAuOYiNSrRxMhqaU95kI_ZeJa3kdglqogprVnJ0FVhnyhx127z8hJrfegtyWyzp1B9wXQ1VgDHcQc7hcaEnHxo8dPHb0-zdrevPJOP09CCpofsedaZB9D5-S5bUqUhNct_gcRo/s320/aIMG_2262.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left the Thames and headed more south. About 40 km onward, near our destination we passed "Historic Rochester." It did turn out to be rather interesting. Here are 3 ridges over the River Medway. I took this photo from the grounds of the Rochester Castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This stone castle dates from the time of the Norman conquest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To me, being in a less than pristine state seems to give a castle more "romance" (for want of a better word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And just up the street is today's 'feature pub, the Cooper's Arms. We stopped for a libation. You may ask why I can stop for a beer but not stop at a museum? Well, it's hot out, we only have 5 km to go and I didn't have a beer, I had a Tonic Water. So there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last photo of the day is of one of the main streets of Rochester, gussied up for summer festivities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are just a few km away on the outskirts of Gillingham. It seems like another typical town, although not as hilly as Rochester was. Perhaps a photo or two as we go through it on our way to Dover tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Laura and Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17004398935815879213noreply@blogger.com1