lundi 30 juillet 2007

Farmer at work (Flemsdorf - 29/07)

After parking the tractor, we cleaned the horse stable.

Tractor parking (Flemsdorf 29/07)


Moto check-up (Flemsdorf - 29/07)


First Driving lesson (Flemsdorf - 28/07)

We're all concentred to not miss any wheat!!!

Harvester driving lesson (Flemsdorf - 28/07)


First resting break (Flemsdorf - 28/07)

After 1700 km, we arrived at our first break of three days, all tired....
We are charging our batteries for the other 3000 km.

Pic-nic break (Ravensbruck - 28/07)

A nice lunch with a quiet view.
Not only for us but for moskitos as well!!!

dimanche 29 juillet 2007

The famous small street Nr.2 (Between like previous - 28/07)

An other picture with special effects!!! Wow

The famous small street (between Wesenberg and Ravensbruck - 28/07)

As you can see there is no place for two cars....
We even had 1 km of paving stone street between to villages!!
Anyway, that was interesting to ride there.

Road preparation (B198 - 28/07)

In a parking on the road B198, we were checking the way to Ravensbruck by using small streets through little forests.
The street was very thin, no car adventured there but we were passing some bikes.
The curves were enjoyable as well!!!

Leaving the Castle (Neustadt-Glewe - 28/07)


Room 13 (Neustadt-Glewe - 28/07)

Look!! What a strange lucky number we've got!!
We should have played Loto...

Romantic road checking (Neustadt-Glewe - 27/07)


"Relais-Chateau" (Neustadt-Glewe - 27/07)

That was our "relais-chateau" time in this four-star Mercure.
In this city of 7500 people, there was not so much to visit...
So, we had a nice jogging in the forest followed by a pleasant sauna.

Orange Juice Break (Täwel - 27/07)


Roland Statue (Bremen - 27/07)


Bremen’s ‘statue of liberty’– a symbol of trading rights and freedom since 1404. Germany’s largest Roland statue.

Fresh fruitttt! (Bremen - 27/07)

"Heute Schleuder-Preise!" - " Today giveaway prices!"

Mess Around (Bremen - 27/07)

Yes, we can do a mess with the content of our small luggages...

vendredi 27 juillet 2007

Beck's (Bremen - 26/07)

We've got again a nostalgic feeling when we arrived in the city: it was smelling beer like in Edinburgh.
It was not the Mc Ewans' brewery but the Beck's one...

New York, New York (Bremen 25/07)

We are just at 6075 kilometers far from the Big Apple. Let's go?

City credit (Bremen - 26/07)

The german way of showing how much the city loans.

Bremen Altstadt (Bremen -26/07)

Old town of Bremen

The bremen Town Musicians Nr.2 (Bremen - 26/07)

Once again...

The bremen Town Musicians (Bremen -26/07)

You can see the statue of the famous town musicians: a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster.

Smashed by the tram (Bremen - 26/07)

Us, before being smashed by a tram on Hutfilerstrasse...
(No animals were injured in this scene)

Kitschy petrol station (B437 - 26/07)

Again some kitshyness in the country side of Germany...

LIDL shopping (Varel - 26/07)


We ordered our dinner.

Lunch Break (Norddeich - 26/07)

We stop there to eat something and see the beach, but it's still too cold to have a swim...

Too much is too much (B72 - 26/07)

The most "kitschy" garden decoration of the world.

Breakfast time (Groningen - 26/07)

To have change of our hotel breakfast buffet, we tried a different concept...

Bike parking (Groningen - 25/07)

The bike is still so famous there!!
In the picture, they are all parked at the Grote Markt.

No car area (Groningen - 25/07)

The city center is closed for cars!!
Will this be applied in Paris, soon?? :-)

Opening road number 2 (25/07)

Another kind...

Opening road (N355 - 25/07)

Since they are a lot of little rivers in neitherland, the roads have to adapt!!

Afsluitdijk (A7-E22 - 25/07)

This road on the sea of arround 25 km connects the regions Noord-Holland and Fryslan for already 75 years.

Nordic beach (Noord-Holland - 25/07)

Between Medemblik and Den Oever, that's maybe the only access to the IJsselmeer...

Lunch Break (Enkhuizen - 25/07)


We had a nice lunch in the pretty city after crossing the long road (N302) which split the IJsselmeer and the Markenmeer.

Public toilet (Amsterdam - 25/07)


Original...

Tramway (Amsterdam -25/07)

Map holder (Amsterdam - 25/07)


Always prepared for the right way.

House boat (Amsterdam - 25/07)

One of the 2500 house boats of the city.

Anne Frank (Amsterdam - 25/07)

263 Prinsengraacht, where she wrote her diary. (the three green doors).

City center entrance (Amsterdam - 25/07)

We start the visit now...

Boat tour (Amsterdam - 25/07)

Let's have a tourist moment to visit the city.

Bike parking (Amsterdam - 25/07)

We knew that dutch people like bikes, well, they really all have a bike!!
This is a parking of three level only dedicated to bikes and that's full!!!

mercredi 25 juillet 2007

Bars in the river (Amsterdam - 24/07)

That's funny how houses can stand on the river, no?

Shopping center (Amsterdam - 24/07)

In the middle of the picture, there's a shooping center with a special architecture...

Bridges of Amsterdam (Amsterdam - 24/07)

After a long walk from the hotel, we arrived in the city center.
Here is a typical view of the city.

On the road to Amsterdam (Haarlem - 24/07)

Ouddorp beach (Ouddorp - 24/07)

We had to stop and meet the beach.
But it was too windy...