Yesterday, I put a few pictures on this blog.  Here are some more from Holland and Germany.

This is a tram in den Haag (the Hague).  Nothing to do with the North Sea route, really - we are not going to attempt any of it by tram.

Near den Haag, in Sheveningem (hope I spell this correctly) there was this play boat near the beach.  We have been very impressed with the provision for childrens' play in playgrounds and other public places, in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.

Of course, Holland is the place for tulips.  We were too late to see the enormous fields of tulips in bloom, the sort coach parties go to see. We did see smaller ones away from the main area, and here is a solitary flower in one of them.

All our journey since we crossed the long dyke in the Netherlands has been in Fresia, or Friesland.  Here are some Fresians

More to come on images in Germany.  But we reckon this is a maypole; we saw it in our second campsite in Germany, in a place intereswtingly enough called Knock, and they had had a Mayday celebration earlier.

Also in Germany, this windmill.  There are quite a few old windmills preserved, such as this.  Most were wind pumps, not mills for cereals, for pumping up water from the land below sea level. Now the pumping is done in pumping stations, by electric power.  Of course, in this part of the world much of the electricity to power this comes from the more modern form of windmill.

We did have some extraordinarily good coffee and cakes in a converted windmill!

We have not yet downloaded our later photos from the camera, but more to come when we do.