Exact same archway-entrance as our last post in this series, but turned around to look at HH’s St. Michaelis Kirche, which the guidebook tells is Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church.
Turns out that once you start looking for them, you’ll find urban canals and rivers in many cities other than Amsterdam, including this lovely little waterway that connects Hamburg’s Alster to it’s busily-trafficked shipping river, the Elbe, en route flowing past its dramatic city hall (seen here).
Borkum has three lighthouses, all of which you will see in due course, more than once most likely. This one is called the New Lighthouse, and sits now in the middle of the main village on the island, a short walk from the main beach and also from the mini-train station, which is what conveys most ferry passengers to town from the ferry port several kilometers away. (There are car ferries, but most folks don’t bother bringing cars over it seems.)
Taken from up in the air inside the old water tower museum on Borkum, looking west. The beach basket sunset photo you saw in our last Islands post was taken more or less behind that tall tower you see in the middle distance on the left side, which is known as the new lighthouse. The windows on the water tower didn’t open, hence the wee reflection you may notice to the left of the tower, sorry…windows seem to go with the territory of “up in the air” shots….
I’ve been leaning on these cascade shots from the mountains north of Erbil to sustain most of my “Country Canals” posts for more than long enough, so herewith the last of those photos as a means to spur myself further outside the city limits of Amsterdam to where I might again photograph something that could more legitimately be described as a country canal in the near future, or risk needing to let this series sleep until I do so 🙂
After Hamburg (often lovingly abbreviated to HH, so expect that in future…) we spent a lovely evening and overnight on the westernmost German island of Borkum, in its lovely main town / village of the same name. After last year’s Texel outing, we’re curious to explore more of these islands off the North Sea coastlines of both NL and DE, so with any luck there’ll be more from these islands in future.
(so much world, so little time....) 