The very last photo I took as Nikos and I headed from our little boat trip on the river (during which many photos in a previous post were taken) to the hotel to grab our luggage and head to the airport. We took a new walking route and finally noticed this delightful train station literally right around the corner from the hotel we’d been staying at all weekend. Yet again: anywhere you turn in that city, interesting views abound. 🙂 And no, we’re still not done with the Prague photos, more than two months later. Sorry….
More views of Penang Hill. Continuing the dialogue on perceptions of contour: compared to the above, the highest point in the European portion of the Netherlands is Vaalserberg, clocking in at 322.4 meters down in the southernmost portion where the Netherlands meets Belgium and Germany in a narrow strip of land which some people, according to Wikipedia, term “the Dutch Mountains.” Hmmm….
Foreground, behive; background, stork on nesting platform. At least, I think it’s a stork but maybe different migratory birds use those platforms at different times. That’d be a smartly-adaptive Dutch approach to supporting migratory bird populations in the midst of probably the most famous park in the nation…
Both taken along the Amstel by where the Dutch National Ballet & Opera company are housed in the same building as City Hall. The one below taken from a balcony during intermission of an evening (yes – summer in the north) ballet performance.
These lovely red poppies have been blooming quite abundantly for many weeks now, and I finally found the opportunity to photograph a few, while visiting Texel recently.
Let me introduce you to Zwolle, the lovely little capital city of Overijssel. (A province whose descriptive name means “above the Ijssel river,” if you’re curious. And Zwolle is named for the minor contour- which in the Netherlands would likely be called a hill – upon which the city was originally founded: Zwolle is related to the English verb “swell.”)
(so much world, so little time....) 