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We enjoyed reading it the other evening also.
2 years agoAs I enjoy your blog I am finding it fun to read our own journey along the Weser
2 years agoIt’s broad beans I think. Kens favourite vegetable he grows heeps
2 years agoIt won’t be quite the same. Note the name of the American species - they’re black, except for the unmistakable orange bill.
2 years agoWhat a tragic piece of history!
We are finding not enough time in our days to try for any computer repairs. So we are carrying on with this android tablet. We do know that we will have to stop to get our chains swapped out. They already have 11,000 km on them!
Interesting. I’d never thought about the airline’s name before, but you’re right.
2 years agoWhat a story! We have in any event been lucky with not rainy day yet!
2 years agoNow that’s amazing. Nearly as great as an oystercatcher.
2 years agoNo, this is all news to me. I eny ever seeing anything like this back home!
2 years agoGreat sheep photos!
2 years agoGood thing you ride with fenders. On Al’s trip through the Pyrenees with his club, many of them got sick. At first they thought they’d filled their bottles with bad water from a village fountain but later learned it was probably due to splashes from wet roads with animal manure splashing onto their bottles.
2 years agoEurasian oystercatcher, as you likely already knew. It’s near cousin, the black oystercatcher, is a year around resident back home. You likely saw one on the ferry to Vancouver.
2 years agoMedia coverage on immigration generally seems to get much more attention than the opposite, I guess that pretty much explains these expectations. Thank you for sharing your observations - from personal experience, it's not that common or easy to actually question your own view of the world. Legends say traveling helps with this though ;-)
In fact, about one million people have been emigrating from Germany every year since 2014. This is less than the number of immigrants, but still quite a large number, more than 1 % of the population. It's interesting to note that migratory movements from/to most Schengen countries such as Poland (128.000 to Germany vs. 126.000 back to Poland in 2019) or Bulgaria are quite balanced.
Yes, you would not want to bury the first container you need to later unload underneath 20 others. The cranes just sounded and acted robotic as they smoothly moved along.
2 years ago
Happy Birthday, Steve! What a great way to celebrate - doing what you both love to do, exploring the world by bike!
2 years ago