Next month I expect to get up to the Frisian islands with my cousin Sam, which should mean some good Dutch coastal pics for this series, so I’ll share all the remaining “coastal” appropriate shots from the first full day on the boat, 21 January. We spent much of that day docked at Ålesund, because (as I understood) daylight in winter is too short for the boat to make it up and back in the narrow fiord nearby, as it would do in the summer. One thing I loved about the cruise was our view of both the wild mountainous coastlines but also of the small villages tucked in all along the coast. The boat make short stops at many of them, but many more we glided past without stopping, including a few in the gallery below.
With April comes a new tennis team competition season, and with the away games occasionally the chance to see village and country life (and canals) in places I’d be unlikely to visit otherwise, such as this lovely little North Holland town last Saturday…
We come, at last, to the final photos from my glorious four days in Zermatt last year. The last photo at the bottom here shows you the view from my upper-deck front seat window on the bus down valley from Täsch back to Visp (who up-valley journey we documented closer to the time), whence those various trains via Domodossola to the lovely lakesides villages & cities of Ticino. And just FYI, I’ve made a preliminary decision that I’ll aim for 400 posting days in a row on this swing, meaning you (and I) will be taking a break from the daily one-or-more posts near the end of this month.
(so much world, so little time....) 