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Post by tyrednexited on May 25, 2017 14:29:11 GMT
High though my desire is to visit coal mines on my holidays, it will have to wait. Hull was predictability gridlocked,(accident and breakdown on the A63); Dutch motorways were predictability gridlocked (they always are) so we've gone straight to a (pleasant) Stellplatz (first one checked was as full as a frog). Thanks for tipping me off about Himmelfahrt, we used to religiously (pun intended) check before travelling, but we just go with the flow now. Gave us a chance to shop in the Netherlands instead (where it is also a holiday but they are less uptight about it)
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2017 16:11:20 GMT
Be able to clog it a bit tomorrow then?
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Post by tyrednexited on May 25, 2017 16:58:18 GMT
Be able to clog it a bit tomorrow then? 😬 CBA now I've been in one of their "coffee shops" ;-)
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2017 17:12:59 GMT
Once heard it said that going to a Dutch coffee shop can turn out to be time wasted...
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 17:49:32 GMT
It's not a coal mine though you did well to avoid today, it was mobbed.
There's a mini golf course there you play with footballs full of dads reliving their glory days before wok smuggling.
I like the Netherlands, we used to escape there at weekends. I lived and worked in Amsterdam for six months, seems like a lifetime ago.
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Post by Hofmeister on May 25, 2017 20:13:15 GMT
I like the dutch, done a fair bit of dog training over there. Outside of Amsterdam tho, they do have a habit of eating and going to bed early. Trying to get a meal or buy anything after 8:30 at night can be a real problem.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 5, 2017 19:32:09 GMT
Greetings from deepest, darkest Styria. (For the paranoid amongst you, that is Styria with a 't')
Despite a pretty dire weather forecast, we've managed a dry 35 mile cycle ride up and down the valleys hereabouts. As a welcome surprise, the clouds cleared as we returned, allowing us a sunny evening meal half-way up a mountain.
Got here via the Eifel National Park, Schwabish Alps, The Tyrol and a stopover in a nice little village North of the Danube, before three nights in Vienna, and up to yesterday it has been as hot as a hot thing. (Vienna 27C at both 9am and 9pm, and well North of that in between). Lots of walking and cycling.
Visited Vienna a couple of times before, but really enjoyed it this time, probably because we avoided the main tourist attractions. Very cosmopolitan place, with more eating and drinking places than I think I've seen anywhere else. Basically just wandered the city off the beaten track, and on our last day, out into the hills overlooking the city, and a visit to a Buschenschank for lunch.
Weather forecast is, as a German once described it to me, Sheiß überall, but we'll no doubt survive.
Hard work this holidaying!
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Post by Humph on Jun 5, 2017 19:45:24 GMT
Bit of rain to come? What's the wurst that could happen?
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