I really must get out to the real countryside and take more canal photos. I also need to show you more of Paleis Het Loo (thanks to Steve, without whom I wouldn’t have known we should stop by that palace when we were in the neighborhood in late June) than just more of these shots from their lovely palace gardens…
Two early-morning views from my new place (just moved, middle of the week past) – above, looking north from my bedroom and below looking west from my living room. We’ve shown you Sloterplas, the lake below, in this previous post as well as a few others. You’ll be seeing more of this, and much less of my last neighborhood park going forward 🙂
Last photo taken on the boat back from Borkum to Emden above, and first photo taken on the boat from Emden to Borkum below – both lookin at the wind farm on the NL side of the river. So many things one can do with coastlines, eh?
Last photos from that dusk landing at Cotonou’s Cadjahoun International airport in Benin that we showed you in one previous post. Indeed, somewhat scraping the bottom of the barrel on these airplane from-the-air shots, but it’s also the mood: one boards mid-day in Brussels, flies south and west, makes a stop some seven hours later to discharge and take on passengers in a place one’s only ever seen on a map before…one sits in one’s seat for 45 minutes while that happens, watching ground crews at work and wondering when one will get to lie down in a real bed and sleep…and then one’s off again to the next airport. Somehow somewhat surreal, I guess.
Still working our way through the dramatic mountains of northern Iraq, and wondering whether I’ll manage to get to anything else that can be legitimately called a mountain in time to continue this particular series once I’ve posted the few that still remain 🙂
The past several entries all came from the island of Borkum itself (as we caught up with the sequence on this particular series). This shot shows the coast of Groningen province, on the west side of the Ems estuary, as our ferry approached the German down of Emden which is on the east side of the same estuary. Plenty ‘o such windmills all over the coastlines and off shore on both sides of this international border.
(so much world, so little time....) 