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Post by tyrednexited on May 24, 2017 11:37:28 GMT
....the weather has turned, the 'van is loaded, and it's now off for three weeks of who knows where..... Off to Rotterdam overnight, and the turn right or left depending on the weather (current forecast indicates Right) Probably a meander down through Germany and into Austria (with a possible foray into Slovenia if the mood takes us), but......who knows, we've ended up well "off-plan" before, so we'll see.  |
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Post by Humph on May 24, 2017 12:17:36 GMT
Have fun !
Not jealous at all...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 12:48:51 GMT
Sounds fantastic. Don't want to change place, I suppose?
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Post by tyrednexited on May 24, 2017 13:08:30 GMT
...actually........can you be here by 16:00 (I've always fancied Patagonia).
Last year, a smash on the A1 (horsebox) closed the road shortly after we joined. We managed to make the Hull-Zeebrugge boat by the skin of our teeth by crawling across country with half the rest of the A1 vehicles.
I've just noted that the Pride of Bruges (the Zeebrugge boat that should leave Hull shortly before our Rotterdam sailing) broke down a week or so ago, and is out of commission. I expect that a number of people will have elected to go to Rotterdam if they want to avoid the drive to the Channel (a tough call if you were planning on an overnight sailing) so I think we'll head off even earlier than we were intending and fight with the hordes.
Hull is a pig of a city to get through in rush-hour (and if the world had piles, that's where they'd be!)
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 14:34:48 GMT
Getting the ferry from 'ull is usually OK for us traffic wise though I tend to arrive before 4pm and the real build up of traffic.
I always find arriving there on a weekday morning the real ballache, two ferries arriving pretty much together releasing 500+ vehicles each at 8:30 onto a congested dual carriageway via a roundabout where everyone thinks they have right of way when their exit is blocked. Stroke of road planning and ferry timetable genius.
Enjoy your trip, this week has been scortio on the Rhein floodplain. It's been a bit overcast today but building up to nudge 30C at the weekend again.
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Post by tyrednexited on May 24, 2017 14:43:30 GMT
I always find arriving there on a weekday morning the real ballache, two ferries arriving pretty much together releasing 500+ vehicles each at 8:30 onto a congested dual carriageway via a roundabout where everyone thinks they have right of way when their exit is blocked. Stroke of road planning and ferry timetable genius. Our conversation drifts that way every time we return - it is only 90 mins or so to home, though, which is rather better than Dover. TBH, historically we've generally used short-sea (twice a year), but Calais became progressively less attractive, and when French action was threatened to coincide with one trip, we migrated to Hull. Considerably more expensive (even allowing for lower mileage) but arriving early in the morning gives us chance to traverse the less attractive Northern parts on arrival day, so it works for us. If we head South, I think we'll drop into the Nationalpark Eifel on the way down - make a change from the Rhein and Mosel valleys. Time to go..... |
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Post by Alanović on May 24, 2017 14:54:57 GMT
Tunnel.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 16:11:27 GMT
If we head South, I think we'll drop into the Nationalpark Eifel on the way down - make a change from the Rhein and Mosel valleys. Time to go..... If you're heading for the Eifel then you could stop off (assuming you're coming down the A61) at Tagebau Hambach en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine for a coffee and to peer into one of the biggest man made holes on the planet. Come off at 18 Bergheim and head for Terra Nova (turn left at the bottom of the sliproad and follow the 477): www.google.de/maps/place/Forum:Terra+Nova/@50.9225901,6.0422044 The hole is further south now than when these images were taken, some of the villages have been relocated south of where the A4 is now. You can see where they moved the A4 south and where the autobahn used to run if you zoom out a little. Forgot to mention tomorrow is Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension) in Germany, public holiday and Father's Day. Happy Father's Day. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 21:12:02 GMT
Bloody hell that's enormous. Its over four miles across.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 21:21:37 GMT
Even when you zoom out to see Poland and Belgium you can still see it on Google maps. They spray water to keep the dust down, I amuse myself with the thought of Humph on his bike trying a black run down one side  It's less than 1,000ft deep. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 21:42:22 GMT
What are they digging out of there?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 21:43:57 GMT
Make a great lake when it is finished; or is that The European Great Lake, something to be filled with the excess wine we used to call the Wine Lake?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 21:56:00 GMT
It's brown coal or lignite en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine#/media/File:Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier_DE.pngRWE are supposedly turning it into a lake with hotels when they are done in the next 25 years or so. It'll make no difference to me but my children should benefit. I bought a house here on 550 square meters of land for 125€/square meter. The average for the area is 330€/square meter, it's less than 25 miles from the centre of Cologne. I drove the 25miles to work this morning in less than 20 minutes at 4:30am. I saw 140mph on the speedo. I've done it in fewer than 15 minutes on my motorbike seeing 176mph. |
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Post by Hofmeister on May 24, 2017 22:07:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 22:16:16 GMT
Part of one of the wheels is on display next to the car park. You should see them go at the land, it really is like a hot knife through butter.
The local stations are hitting 43% efficiency with brown coal compared to an industry average of 31%. In the next few decades they want to hit 50%.
Did you know when they add lime water to the chimney gases the by-product is gypsum. I worked at National Power in the UK when the biggest supplier of gypsum for the cantilever roof at St. James' Park was Blyth Power Station.
At the time it was the largest cantilever roof in the Europe.
How's the fracking going in Surrey ?
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