  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 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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  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 ... | 
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  ...Tannhaüser The fanfare | 
 
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  inside from a postcard | 
 
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  Richard Wagner | 
 
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  dressed for ...  | 
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  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 | 
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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 ... | 
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  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 ... | 
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  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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