European Motor Tour to Bayreuth

August 2011

Pat's Diary


Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Hurricane approaching Dymchurch station





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


the castle gate


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


The Roman Pharos

Old St James Church

Old St James's doorway

The castle, cliffs and harbour
from the ferry


The Abbey Church


The bell tower

Abbatis Villa Jean de Bruges
our hotel

Preparations for the medieval festival


Bagpipes in the rain

Knights braving the rain

medieval lunch

Le centre culturel


Modelling a birthday present

The cake

James

Charlie

Nicky & Mike
Monet's Garden

Monet's Garden, Giverny
August 2011












Birthday Picture
















Birthday Lunch


Vernon, near Giverny
August 2011


La Collégiale Notre-Dame






The Town Hall


The old castle

interactive fountains






The Chateau


The Chapel




La Defence from the Terrace

Mike's Office


RER train approaching St Germain-en-Laye


Die Burg Fleckenstein
near Lembach
August 2011

Die Burg

main staircase


on top


The separate watch tower from above

from below

The Burg from the Watchtower




Perhaps, where she ought to be?


Maginot Line Fortress
near Lembach
August 2011

entrance


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



Michelin star menu





Altdrossenfeld
near Bayreuth
August 2011

Braugasthof Schnupp
our hotel near Bayreuth

Storks on the brewery roof

European White Stork



Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Neudrossenfeld






The Festspielhaus
Bayreuth
August 2011

dressed up ...

... to go ...

...to ...

...Tannhaüser
The fanfare


inside
from a postcard






Richard Wagner



dressed for ...

... Tristan and Isolde

Markgräphisches Opernhaus
Bayreuth
August 2011

Rathaus?

Markgräphisches Opernhaus


Auditorium



Entrance Hall

Haus Wahnfried
Bayreuth
August 2011


Ludwig II


Wagner's Grave

Schlosspark


Neues Schloss












Eremitage
Bayreuth
August 2011


Kanalgarten

Distant view of the Schloss

Walk round, through the the water meadows



The Kaskaden


from the top

Alte Ökonomie

Untere Grotte







Monplaisir

Neues Schloss and Sonnentempel




Parterre

Altes Schloss



The Parnass
start of the tour of the Altes Schloss





Saalfeld
lunch stop
August 2011

Oberes Tor

Johanniskirche

Rathaus



Blankenburg Tor


Weimar
tea stop
August 2011

The Cranachhaus


The Rathaus

Goethe and Schiller

National Theater

St Peter & St Paul


Schillerhaus

Fürstenhaus


Stadtschloss Turm

The Brocken and
Harz Schmallspurbahn
August 2011

Wernigerode Station

on the platform

Locomotives being prepared

backing down

locomotive 99 7240 - 7


toiling up through the forest


arriving at the summit station



running round the train

backing down

ready to depart

Wernigerode


on the Brocken

Blue Gentians



Witches Pulpit

Train toiling up

departure

another arrival at Schierke

from the leading carriage

An older locomotive


Wernigerode
August 2011

The Rathaus





The Westerntor


Pilgrim

The smallest house


before the Unwetter


The town wall

Schloss Wernigerode


The gate

from the gate

our hotel from the ramparts

The courtyard

The Chapel

The salon


The Dining Room

Göttingen
August 2011

The former East German Border, in the Harz



Göttingen
Jacobikirche


Johanneskirche

A walk in the Göttingerwald

Fallow Deer
(Damwild; Dama Dama)


calf


Bismarkturm

Seeburger See

with Heli and Jürgen Troe


Friesland
August 2011

Our guest house in Twijzelheide


Ferries at Lauwersmeer Port

on board the Monnik


Arriving at Schiermonnikoog

Schiermonnikoog
the town

The Friesland flag


The Reformed Church
Schiermonnikoog


The old lighthouse

The current lighthouse


On the seaward side looking north west

looking East along the beach

unknown plant with ...

... gorgeous berries

Dokkum; the town hall


The Grote Kerk


Waders at Holward

redshanks

Curlew



Leeuwarden
August 2011

St Bonifatiuskerk



Grote Kerk

Oldehove Turm

Jewish Memorial

Stadt Museum

Alte Waage



Town Hall

Willem Lodewijk
Graf van Nassau

Afsluitdijk
between the Waddenzee
and the IJsselmeer
August 2011

Cornelius Lely


looking North East from ...

... the Observation Tower

looking South West


Haarlem
August 2011

Franz Hals Museum

Groot Heiligland



Inner Garden



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


looking towards Rotterdam

The Queen Elizebeth ...

... leaving Rotterdam

Hull - the following morning


Barton upon Humber
August 2011

on the Humber Bridge

St Mary's Church




Simeon Seman

St Peter's Church

The Tower, the lower part of which is Saxon



at Ludborough Station

No 2 Fulstow





opening the gates



Bombing markers with tanker, anchored in the Humber

Spurn Head Lighthouse

Hawthorns


Common Blue


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