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Long summer days, nice weather, and (long-) weekend travels recently have allowed me to see many more intriguing entrances, so we’ll devote the next eleven posts to exploring them in all their ranges and styles. Hope you’ll enjoy the journey.

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As noted in the last entry for this series, one finds urban canals even outside NL, once one starts looking. Hadn’t been to this particular city in quite some time, and you’ll be seeing more of it in upcoming posts. If you’d like to verify your own guess about which city it is, open in full-screen view so you can see the “categories” and “tags” :-).
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Small Wonders.190

Red currants & cherries, two delights of summer in the north, flourishing in the garden of dear friends outside HH.

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And another set of images from a single garden, behind a building which has an interesting history documented in the middle photo of the three-photo gallery just below. (Note: if you don’t see all these images on your small-screen, try again with larger screen or a different browser.)

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All of these photos come from the same pair of private-home or private-office gardens that I visited on my “Open Garden Days” tour to which I introduced you in a series that began with this post.

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On HH’s waterfront, with HH’s city flag to the left :-).

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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.

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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).

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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.)