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A Christmas pudding is not just for Christmas!

January 25, 2023 robintouring 1 Comment

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Looking through national parks in The Netherlands

January 18, 2023 robintouring Leave a comment

A belly wobbler for a Brit! Some are closed. On Dartmoor, they are currently debating the continuation of “wild camping”…

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Amsterdam standard level

January 11, 2023 robintouring Leave a comment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Ordnance_Datum

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Packing up Christmas

January 10, 2023 robintouring Leave a comment

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Refugees in Hellevoetsluis

January 7, 2023 robintouring 1 Comment

Taking a little more exercise I walked around the outside of the vesting (fortress) this morning and saw a row…

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Christmas 2022

January 4, 2023 robintouring 1 Comment

Too much navel gazing in the week running up to the UK festive break caused a last minute decision to…

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Christmas in Peasmarsh with my eldest brother and family

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Once more into the breach dear friends

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Very happy that the water under the liner has receded; seems to have also levelled the sand to some extent…

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Some Christmas links to Frank Zappa

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A&E Bio BBC Archive Camarillo Brillo The Late show 1993 Paris 1980 Part1 & Part2 Baby Snakes

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A nasty fright and a moment to pause in the crawl space.

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The fitting of the plates progressed well but on running out of the plastic nails I re-ordered from Amazon and…

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Crawl space insulation take two

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It’s working! I think by end of session this morning I will have used up all the plastic nails, a…

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Insulation fun!

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The three brothers

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Painting away, end in sight.

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Not one step back

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Just reading Stalingrad (again) by Anthony Beevor and was struck by the brutality of the regime in the context of…

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Painting pain

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The curtain rail’s proved to be of poor quality, particularly around the 90 degree bends and at the joins so…

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Arrived Hellevoetsluis

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Planned a stop half way but received a notification of possible covid positive test from Iain; decided if I was…

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Iain the Eagle

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Around Munich

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So much of the infrastructure seems to my eye to be metal (rather than say concrete).. Masks required on public…

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Arrived Munich

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To NW edge of city, so far so good. Was s bit +/- getting a space, rather packed in here,…

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Arrived Ankaran

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It’s a huge site, 5km from Italian border. Quite mixed with it seems a lot of permanent sites that seem…

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Military history park

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My friend Roger is gone

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I guess it’s thirty years I’ve known him on and off. His sister Sue messaged me yesterday to give the…

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Ljubljana tour

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Caravan V’s Camper van

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Arrived Ljubljana

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Many tunnels en route spectacular scenery, park just outside of city, 20c. Diesel on highway €1.85..

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Linguistic differences

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Seems each valley has its own variations on German, beetschoon, dunker as close as I can mirror it instead of…

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A tasty dry cider, I feel reborn!

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Stubai valley talking head

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Camp site Innsbruck

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First view of the mountains and arrived Innsbruck

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I really hope my plan to track some weather works; early next week sunny and warm is forecast. Tomorrow up…

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Arrived Munich

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Targeted Innsbruck today but a good hour, probably one and a ;)74,<{|>% hours of delay due a crash and road…

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Around Heidelberg

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Peterskirche+49 6221 163230https://maps.app.goo.gl/1RZZua4bbVNgH3DJ8?g_st=ic

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A German lock, weir and the bridges upstream from Heidelberg.

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Arrived Heidelberg

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I had planned and booked for Frankfurt but on examining the route I found it entered the low emissions zone…

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Airborne museum (101st) Bastogne

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Remember

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Arrived Aachen and a few unrelated comments

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More or less four hours from Groningen. Highway diesel 2.40. Coal power stations in Germany emitting steam so guess they…

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Arrived Groningen

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Saw a sailing friend in Amsterdam on the way up, last seen in Bergen. Chewed the fat and was pleased…

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The first load of insulation has arrived, caravan out and getting ready to roll

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  • Jeffery Sachs – American economist
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