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I'd booked a late crossing for safety, but when I got to the terminal they made me wait for the actual train I'd booked. Six of us on bikes turned up within half an hour, all with tickets for the same train, and none of us were allowed an early train :) - PA114548.JPG
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I'd intended to get to the curiously-abandoned town of Doel, but getting the late train meant I got here at night, and didn't really fancy walking round an abandoned town at night on my own... - PA114563.JPG
- My dutch "chalet" for the first night
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I asked Kurvigier for windy roads in the Netherlands, and this is what it gave me - Quick stop at the Hotel Hartenstein for a tea and a coffee, and some memorials
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Even the nice roads in the netherlands are dead-straight! - IMG 20191012 154824
On to the largest waterfall in the whole of the Netherlands. So big they had to split it into three. - PA134592
It rained for the second half of the first day, so the second one started with greenery! - PA134594
And Germany and its forests and forests of windturbines - PA134597.JPG
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And on to Wewelsburg castle for cake and a coffee! - PA134611
Curiously cropped photos because the rest of the building was covered in scaffolding - IMG 20191013 111849
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Found some corners! - PA134632.JPG
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Came across a low-budget Kelly's Heroes - PA134673
I spent about 20K following these two GLs, never quite fancying the overtake! - PA134677
And then the rain came again - PA134695
Cheeky ferry! - PA134696
Got it all to myself - PA134699
Rather than having to steer, there's a wire strung across the river that just holds the boat in the right place - PA134703.JPG
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And some mountains. Ish. - PA134730.JPG
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Gottingen has a scale model of the solar system, I aimed for Earth first - IMG 20191013 151448
But saw the Sun on the way to it, surprisingly enough. - IMG 20191013 151556
This one has Earth in it - IMG 20191013 151620
That little ball bearing - IMG 20191013 152617
I spent a while looking for Pluto, but didn't find it - PA134766
I stopped at a McDonalds at Nordhausen for dinner and wifi to find a campsite, and the car park was full of these, little groups of teenagers on them coming and going, too. So much more cool than the British kids on their Peugeot 'peds' - IMG 20191013 212501
I got to the campsite in Grillenberg after dark andwhen it was closed, so I didn't get to find out what the instruction was, but I don't like the look of the punishment - PA144769
Monday morning was glorious sunshine - PA144770
and forests and corners. Excellent! - PA144780.JPG
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Another of Germany's forests of turbines! - PA144810
More cheeky ferries, this one has a castle - PA144817
And a surprise 2km of cobbled road! - IMG 20191014 124944
My favouritely-named shop - PA144819.JPG
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I heard you liked boats so ... - PA144827
Ferropolis! The one waypoint I'd planned before I left - PA144828.JPG
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This is a collection of Soviet-era mining machines - PA144833.JPG
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It's excellent. I'm going back. - PA144846.JPG
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That's the chock that stops this thing rolling around - PA144852.JPG
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You can even wander round this one - PA144864
I've long wondered what's in these bits. Why do you need an office on a mining machine? - PA144865
Obviously, it's the motors. - PA144867
That's the transformer - PA144869
I'm sure there's people that absolutely _love_ these things poking up out of a nature reserve! - PA144870
I expected more buttons in the control room - PA144872.JPG
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The circuit breakers at the substation, this one's for Roni - PA144876.JPG
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I'd meant to stay in Dresden, but didn't find anywhere so I stayed just outside it, then quickly paused here for a token photo on my way. Save it for the return leg! - PA154921
This was the last day, though, and those are always a bit more rushed, with an actual looming deadline. This is on the way out of Gorlitz in Poland! - PA154928
This one's from my unecessary detour into Czechia, just because it was so nearby - PA154940.JPG
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Turns out rural central European level crossings don't have lights. Less signposted than road crossings! - PA154967.JPG
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Jelenia Gora; I was told by a few people to come here; it's the portal for all the skiing and other stuff that goes on in the Polish bit of the Sudete mountains. - PA154981.JPG
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And, being in the mountains, it has some lovely roads - IMG 20191015 161138
The lovely roads only went on _so_ far, before the motorway that I didn't take any photos of, bafflingly. So here's my bike outside what was my office for several weeks!