Showing posts with label Sight Seeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sight Seeing. Show all posts

2013-05-11

Ouddorp and Zierikzee


It's been a long time, so many things have happened making me far too busy to write about it, and I kept a list of topics to write about, but as it got bigger and bigger it got me further away of writing anything. So I made up my mind, very tough decision, to just write about the now, and leave the rest behind for now.

So after searching for a house, going to Cape Verde on a volunteering mission to protect sea turtles, redecorating our new home, moving, getting pregnant, giving birth... we went for a ride in Zeeland like we used to do before - looking in a map for a town that sounds nice - I chose Ouddorp - and turning the GPS on. As usual we stop whenever we feel like it or deviate to where ever looks nice.

Ouddorp is very small but cosy and pretty - as I imagined due to the name: oud means old and dorp means village. It didn't disappoint.









It also has a lot of nice beaches! This was at the Ouddorp surfers' beach (view to the lighthouse):



After this two stops I set the GPS to interest point on the way home, but we stopped far before any of them when passing Zierikzee because I saw so many interesting towers from different types, so we decided to have a look - that took us the rest of the afternoon, but was worth it! Such a nice town!







The building with the tower in the main square reminded us of Tavira's city hall back in Portugal!








This is the new church, the old one was destroyed by a fire. Weird hum?





2011-07-17

Maastricht!

Já há algum tempo que queríamos ir a Maastricht, o tempo nunca estava bom, ou tínhamos outros planos... Finalmente num feriado resolvemos ir, infelizmente apanhamos uma fila de trânsito descomunal - acontece que os holandeses não têm muitos feriado ou fins-de-semana prolongados mas conseguimos acertar num deles... toda a gente estava a ir para algum lado passar o fim-de-semana prolongado!
De qualquer forma, aqui ficam as fotos! :)

We wanted to go to Maastricht for a long time now but the weather was never good, or we had other plans... Finally we went on a holiday, but unfortunately we were caught in a massive traffic jam - Dutch don't have much holidays or long weekends but we managed to choose one of those! Everyone was going somewhere for the weekend! Anyway, check the photos!