 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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 ... 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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 Bombing markers with tanker, anchored in the Humber |
 Spurn Head Lighthouse |
 Hawthorns |

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 Common Blue |

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