Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway |
Hurricane approaching Dymchurch station |
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Departure to Hythe |
Shunting at the Hythe terminus |
Dover, August 2011 |
from the hotel room The Eurodam Holland America Line |
Dover Castle |
The Harbour from the castle wall |
Under the castle The Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk) Tour |
film displays |
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the castle gate |
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Dover Castle |
Exhibition: The chapel |
The dining room |
Point in a children's game |
The Great Keep |
St Mary in Castro and the Pharos |
St Mary in Castro |
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The Roman Pharos |
Old St James Church |
Old St James's doorway |
The castle, cliffs and harbour from the ferry |
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The Abbey Church |
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The bell tower |
Abbatis Villa Jean de Bruges our hotel |
Preparations for the medieval festival |
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Bagpipes in the rain |
Knights braving the rain |
medieval lunch |
Le centre culturel |
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Modelling a birthday present |
The cake |
James |
Charlie |
Nicky & Mike Monet's Garden |
Monet's Garden, Giverny August 2011 |
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Birthday Picture |
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Birthday Lunch |
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Vernon, near Giverny August 2011 |
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La Collégiale Notre-Dame |
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The Town Hall |
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The old castle |
interactive fountains |
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The Chateau |
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The Chapel |
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La Defence from the Terrace |
Mike's Office |
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RER train approaching St Germain-en-Laye |
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Die Burg Fleckenstein near Lembach August 2011 |
Die Burg |
main staircase |
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on top |
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The separate watch tower from above |
from below |
The Burg from the Watchtower |
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Perhaps, where she ought to be? |
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Maginot Line Fortress near Lembach August 2011 |
entrance |
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Main personnel corridor |
air purification |
hospital |
command office |
firing room with direction indicators |
Turret diagram |
looking up into the turret |
TV view of the raised turret outside |
plan of the fort |
elevation of the fort showing the inclined tunnel for munitions |
down the incline |
Diagram of the Siegfried Line |
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Michelin star menu |
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Altdrossenfeld near Bayreuth August 2011 |
Braugasthof Schnupp our hotel near Bayreuth |
Storks on the brewery roof |
European White Stork |
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Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Neudrossenfeld |
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The Festspielhaus Bayreuth August 2011 |
dressed up ... |
... to go ... |
...to ... |
...Tannhaüser The fanfare |
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inside from a postcard |
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Richard Wagner |
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dressed for ... |
... Tristan and Isolde |
Markgräphisches Opernhaus Bayreuth August 2011 |
Rathaus? |
Markgräphisches Opernhaus |
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Auditorium |
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Entrance Hall |
Haus Wahnfried Bayreuth August 2011 |
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Ludwig II |
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Wagner's Grave |
Schlosspark |
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Neues Schloss |
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Eremitage Bayreuth August 2011 |
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Kanalgarten |
Distant view of the Schloss |
Walk round, through the the water meadows |
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The Kaskaden |
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from the top |
Alte Ökonomie |
Untere Grotte |
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Monplaisir |
Neues Schloss and Sonnentempel |
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Parterre |
Altes Schloss |
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The Parnass start of the tour of the Altes Schloss |
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Saalfeld lunch stop August 2011 |
Oberes Tor |
Johanniskirche |
Rathaus |
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Blankenburg Tor |
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Weimar tea stop August 2011 |
The Cranachhaus |
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The Rathaus |
Goethe and Schiller |
National Theater |
St Peter & St Paul |
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Schillerhaus |
Fürstenhaus |
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Stadtschloss Turm |
The Brocken and Harz Schmallspurbahn August 2011 |
Wernigerode Station |
on the platform |
Locomotives being prepared |
backing down |
locomotive 99 7240 - 7 |
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toiling up through the forest |
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arriving at the summit station |
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running round the train |
backing down |
ready to depart |
Wernigerode |
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on the Brocken |
Blue Gentians |
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Witches Pulpit |
Train toiling up |
departure |
another arrival at Schierke |
from the leading carriage |
An older locomotive |
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Wernigerode August 2011 |
The Rathaus |
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The Westerntor |
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Pilgrim |
The smallest house |
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before the Unwetter |
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The town wall |
Schloss Wernigerode |
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The gate |
from the gate |
our hotel from the ramparts |
The courtyard |
The Chapel |
The salon |
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The Dining Room |
Göttingen August 2011 |
The former East German Border, in the Harz |
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Göttingen Jacobikirche |
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Johanneskirche |
A walk in the Göttingerwald |
Fallow Deer (Damwild; Dama Dama) |
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calf |
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Bismarkturm |
Seeburger See |
with Heli and Jürgen Troe |
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Friesland August 2011 |
Our guest house in Twijzelheide |
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Ferries at Lauwersmeer Port |
on board the Monnik |
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Arriving at Schiermonnikoog |
Schiermonnikoog the town |
The Friesland flag |
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The Reformed Church Schiermonnikoog |
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The old lighthouse |
The current lighthouse |
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On the seaward side looking north west |
looking East along the beach |
unknown plant with ... |
... gorgeous berries |
Dokkum; the town hall |
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The Grote Kerk |
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Waders at Holward |
redshanks |
Curlew |
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Leeuwarden August 2011 |
St Bonifatiuskerk |
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Grote Kerk |
Oldehove Turm |
Jewish Memorial |
Stadt Museum |
Alte Waage |
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Town Hall |
Willem Lodewijk Graf van Nassau |
Afsluitdijk between the Waddenzee and the IJsselmeer August 2011 |
Cornelius Lely |
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looking North East from ... |
... the Observation Tower |
looking South West |
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Haarlem August 2011 |
Franz Hals Museum |
Groot Heiligland |
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Inner Garden |
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St Bavokerk |
Europort to Hull Cruise Ferry Pride of Rotterdam August 2011 |
Deck 10 |
The Hookof Holland with an ore ship and tanker in the foreground |
Front Cecelie unloading |
looking west towards the sea; all built since 1995 |
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looking towards Rotterdam |
The Queen Elizebeth ... |
... leaving Rotterdam |
Hull - the following morning |
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Barton upon Humber August 2011 |
on the Humber Bridge |
St Mary's Church |
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Simeon Seman |
St Peter's Church |
The Tower, the lower part of which is Saxon |
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at Ludborough Station |
No 2 Fulstow |
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opening the gates |
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Bombing markers with tanker, anchored in the Humber |
Spurn Head Lighthouse |
Hawthorns |
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Common Blue |
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