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City Lights.39

Just last month in Geneva. And I’m about to head down there again for some more meetings later this week – here’s hoping the weather will allow another walk or two and some accompanying photos of this lakeside city which really is gorgeous :-).

Islands.39

One of the very many pleasures of spending many days on this lovely little island is the ability to quietly watch the light, weather, tides and vibe of the island and its surrounding seas endlessly shift…

From The Air.19

So after a very careful study of the map against this photo, I have concluded that I can at last legitimately add at least the category “Zeeland” to my blog, even though I’ve not yet been on the ground in Zeeland. (It’s now the only province in the Netherlands that I haven’t at least passed through in a train or car, and most I’ve now done some real activities such as overnights, culture, tennis, performances, museums, etc.) I’m confident that the land on the left is the beginning of Zeeland, as you head south, while the area on the far right under the wing-tip of the airplane is the end of Zuid Holland, just south of the port of Rotterdam which I showed you in a previous post from this flight back to A’dam from Geneva. If you also choose to study the map as I just did, you’ll no doubt agree that the image below, taken less than two minutes before the one above, shows the fingers of land just south, also in Zeeland – which, if you do study the map, you’ll notice is really a lot of peninsulas and islands between the various channels of water that represent the main end of what would be the delta of the Rhine, if the Dutch hadn’t been engineering it for centuries.

Mountains.19

Ah, Royalty.9

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Urban Entrances.99

City Views.199

Farewell, for now, to Berlin on the blog :-).

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Small Wonders.209

Small Wonders.208

City Views.198

Considering the over-abundance of photos noted in prior posts, I’ve decided it’s time to share just about all the photos that remain from late June’s visit to Hamburg – a trip we’ve shown you in various past posts starting in early July. Sheesh, three months ago already. Anyhoo – the gallery below is just about everything; the Bismarck Monument above (I think I recall reading somewhere that it’s the largest Bismarck monument in the world?) is one notable city site. I think the Alster & the City Hall (Rathaus) shown in the two larger photos at the end are probably the city’s most famous sites, along with the harbor in general and, now, the Elbphilharmonie building (we pointed it out in an earlier post, and you’ll see it again in the gallery below if you look for it).

Urban Garden.178

Coasting.68

Traveling from Portsmouth, NH over to Star Island involves exiting along the Piscataqua River & Bay out to the open ocean, past one of the cooler pulley-elevating bridges I’ve seen as well as two different lighthouses. (The bridge we’ve shown you a few times in previous posts.)

 

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Urban Canals.148