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Urban Garden.170

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.)

Posted by  |  July 15, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.169

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.

Posted by  |  July 15, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 1 Comment

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Small Wonders.189

Posted by  |  July 14, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

City Views.189

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

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Village Views.49

Posted by  |  July 13, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Urban Entrances.79

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.

Posted by  |  July 13, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Hamburg | 1 Comment

Urban Canals.139

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).

Posted by  |  July 12, 2023 | Categories: Germany, Hamburg | 1 Comment

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Country Canals.39

Posted by  |  July 12, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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City Lights.29

Posted by  |  July 11, 2023 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Islands.29

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.)

Posted by  |  July 11, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: , | Leave a comment

From The Air.9

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….

Posted by  |  July 10, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | 1 Comment

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Mountains.9

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Mountains.8

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From The Air.8

More views looking west from our plane over the central valley, as explained in the last post on this series.

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Islands.28

Beach baskets at sunset on the aforementioned German island of Borkum.

Posted by  |  July 8, 2023 | Categories: East Frisia, Germany, Niedersachsen | Tags: | Leave a comment