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| Saturday, 24-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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a bicycle tour over the former island Walcheren. The most south-western part of the Netherlands. It is enclosed by dikes and dunes and attachted to other former islands by dams. Middelburg and Veere are beuatifull small towns. In many villages there were anual "ring-picking" contests. Men and woman on horses have a wooden lance. With this they trie in full galop to pick up a ring fixed to a rope. The use mainly haevy horses ( like English Shire horses).
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| Friday, 25-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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A stormy trip to a beautifull island
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the ferry is coming into the port of Harlingen
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seagulls use the uplift of the wind
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the restored oldest motor lifeboat
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In the tail of a summer gale we went by boat to the island Vlieland. Only the inhabitants may use a car. Tourists have to leave their car in Harlingen.
We stayed to days for walking and cycling.
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| Saturday, 19-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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The great wooden engine
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The top of the gekroonde Poelenburg
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It started with a heavy shower with gusts of wind
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The saw and the sawn timber
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A party of millers from sawmills, milwrights and windmill enthusiasts made a study of three of the five remain Paltrok wind sawmills. Two in the Zaan Area and one on the edge of the city centre of Amsterdam. It was a good windy dat. All mills were sawing a log. The oldest was the " Otter". The Amsterdam Paltrok of 1631. It was built by a monopolist windsaw company and was privatised in 1630. The mill is now " sufflocated" by the surrounding high risring flats. The Zaandam sawmill " De Held Jozua" ( Joshua the Hero) of 1719 will face the same fate. The wood drying shed houses a chinese restauarant. The paltrok " The Gekroonde Polenburg" of 1869 is now in the open air museum " Zaanse Schans. Constuction details differ between the mills. Some construction details go back construction details in wooden sailing ships. Amsterdam and Zaandam were in the 17th centry European centres of shipbuilding.
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| Monday, 14-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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The " Dutch mountains" , The coast of North Holland
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We stayed a few days at a camping on the coast of North Holland. North Holland is a sandy coastal strip with protects a large polderland.. From Roman times people cultivated the marshed and the first towns came. In the 16 th century it became a prosporous area with the " Golden Age" in the 17th century.We made nice bicycle trips.
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| Sunday, 6-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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a busy North See port: IJmuiden
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The Newcastle ferry is leaving the Visserijhaven
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The Queen of Scandinavia goes backwards from the Visserijhaven
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waving farewell
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IJmuiden is the entrance to the Amsterdam-North Sea canal. It is a ferry port, a fishing port and the Corus steelworks are there
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| Saturday, 5-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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The enchanted garden
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The site of the former Dutch Ordnance works in Zaandam was closed for many years. It is now a romantic mixture of nature and ruines.
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| Friday, 4-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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a wedding party in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is a beautiful city. It is speldid background for a wedding.
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| Saturday, 15-May-2004 00:00 |
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Steamdays in Dordrecht
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aboard the ferry " De Kop van 't land"
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The former s.s. " Hydrograaf"
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The funnel of the Hydrograaf
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This weeken was " Stoom in Dordrecht". This beautifull city is on the crossroads of important waterways. It has the largest steamfair of Europe.We went their by bicycle and steamship.
This is an inpression of the day.
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| Thursday, 13-May-2004 00:00 |
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The other Dutch landscape
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An inland freighter plows through the coolling water of the stee
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The Corus steelworks in the background
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the entrance to the port of Ymuiden
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Today I was in IJmuiden. The landscape is completely different from what I have shown before
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| Sunday, 9-May-2004 00:00 |
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Three rivers and a canal
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The canal is very quiet on Sunday
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The Dommel in a farmland area
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the right bank is nature reserve, the left is farmland
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Today we made a 63 kilomters bicyclte trip to the area west of our village. We croossed the stream Leigraaf and the small river aa. The Zuid Willemsvaart. A canal of 129 kilometers from 's-Hertogenbosch to Maastricht. It was built in the beginning of the 19th century and has been enlarged trice. After that we crossed the river Dommel. Later we croosed the waters again. It is mainly farmland with some small parts of nature reserves
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