Cities: Walcheren, Netherlands

Great "postcard" and the last one is great too.

Loved the song as well - thanks for sharing that too (though I am sure I didn't get the full message, not beeing a seaman myself).

TY both, appreciate!! :-)
(song? clou would be 'Watching the ships roll in And I watch 'em roll away again. and tide'-sentences. which seems to be a fav pastime of all who are not used to-? ;-) (when we were still living at the Boulevard, it was almost impossible to have visitors. they were always hanging out of the windows, gazing at ships passing by )

really looking FW to seeing some good pics!!!
I'm afraid I must be the only one 'here' living there, but couldn't imagine I would be the only 1 who could come up with pics?

(not too many here though. I was born at the Boulevard of Flushing, with the beach as our front garden. but don't like to go there anymore. place has been squandered. and sold to real estate developers from all over the country.
once the place was gorgeous, before all was destroyed in WWII. most bombarded city in the Netherlands -88 times-, due to a strategic (geographical) situation. and now it's ugly. who needs 'skyscrapers' at a place like this? )







gate of Fort Rammekens, Ritthem (munic. Vliss.). oldest sea fort in Europe. dates from 1547, make over by Napoleon after 1809

wonderful!! love the angle & POV, spectacular sky!!
(must have been a while back, there are 'hanging terraces' now)




mural with portrait of Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (born in Vliss.)
in an attempt to pimp desolate former 'grand hotel' Brittania
on Boulevard Evertsen, Flushing


(a99)



(a580)
the gulls, although polite, seem to be sooooo hungry nowadays (and sooo emanciated! )
'patat' is slang for patates frites / french fries, which appears to be the Dutch 'national dish'?
@ Boulevard de Ruyter, Keizersbolwerk, Flushing
(not acquainted with the -unaware?- man)

Thanks angora, yes it's a relatively old shot.
Very nice shots of Vlissinger Michiel. Hero or villain?
And I always say; thank God for gulls. Some people hate them but for photographers it's a great bird!

Braisim: love those windmill shots! Perhaps the children in the last one should be cropped or 'neutralized' (in Photoshop of course!).

sunbathing on deck of a dutch pilot boat, Vlissingen



belgian pilot boat coming in
pilot harbour left, to the right for (1 of the) yacht harbour(s)




(fun fun ... it found the beach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHPIqyJe1RM

and 'this' is hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQ3M0VQaKU

-during the time we lived at the Boulevard, we saw many ships beaching. even break and sink- always nice to keep a camera at hand )

love it!! (less is more?!!) really nice catch, that 'co co'!
(it is named the Oranjemolen ('Orange mill'), 1st described in 1699. it still grounds grain -on fridays- )



(a99)

last meters of highway A58, heading to Vlissingen
(big thing on the right is the former water tower of Oost-Souburg)





Edited by angora - 01 February 2015 at 05:04

(in 't Wasschappels? LOL!! dialect of Weskappel divers a lot from other dialects in Zeeland. too isolated for too long, I guess? although there is no such thing as 'Zeeland dialect'. lots of similarities, but differences even from village to village. in the cities generally more like an accent).
pfff, that was not easy (start of a new -annoying?- 'read this'-thread? ) amazing how you managed to take such wonderful pics there

L.O.T.R.



(Rittem, hemeente Vlissienge ;-D)



Edited by angora - 02 February 2015 at 08:57