Capt Lightning
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- Location
- Historic Buchan, Scotland
I'm limited to the number of photos per post, so I'll split this by city / area.
When I lived in Hampshire, it was easy to nip across the channel to France and beyond, but it's a long way from the North of Scotland. Trip started with the drive down to Newcastle and then by overnight ferry to Ijmuiden near Amsterdam. I was a good crossing, but as we left the Tyne, it was sad to see the disused and crumbling wharfs and dry docks that line a once busy river. It was also strange to find this accompanied to he sound of 'Anchors aweigh' on the ship's PA.
The first thing you notice in the Netherlands is that Diesel is 75% of the UK price, so we tanked up !
Drove to Cologne and stopped in a suburb called Rodenkirchen (a town in its own right). We stayed a a camping ground beside the Rhine..
Views from the van window.....
1. A river cruise ship
2. Rowing was popular with all ages..
3. The road towards Cologne..
4 Cologne cathedral - largely covered in scaffolding.
Right that will do for Cologne..... On to the Saar valley.
When I lived in Hampshire, it was easy to nip across the channel to France and beyond, but it's a long way from the North of Scotland. Trip started with the drive down to Newcastle and then by overnight ferry to Ijmuiden near Amsterdam. I was a good crossing, but as we left the Tyne, it was sad to see the disused and crumbling wharfs and dry docks that line a once busy river. It was also strange to find this accompanied to he sound of 'Anchors aweigh' on the ship's PA.
The first thing you notice in the Netherlands is that Diesel is 75% of the UK price, so we tanked up !
Drove to Cologne and stopped in a suburb called Rodenkirchen (a town in its own right). We stayed a a camping ground beside the Rhine..
Views from the van window.....
1. A river cruise ship
2. Rowing was popular with all ages..
3. The road towards Cologne..
4 Cologne cathedral - largely covered in scaffolding.
Right that will do for Cologne..... On to the Saar valley.
