Lovely again, Peter. Always appreciate hearing about your travels, and how you share them is always enjoyable.
I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing a couple of Australian Christmases, and everyone I knew there was very cool about helping me have a place to be for the holidays. Loved the writing about and photography showing the Cologne Cathedral. Scale as spiritual experience. I’d really like to visit one day.
Cologne Cathedral was certainly the largest and most magnificently gothic cathedral we saw. Would highly recommend, even though it was flooded with tourists (and it was the off-season!).
Australian Christmases are indeed quite special in their own way -- and in a familiar, homely way for those of us who grew up going on sweaty camping holidays at the height of summer -- though it felt more symbolically rich to celebrate Christmas in the short, dark days of the depths of winter.
Thanks for following along, James! One postcard still to come.
Why did we stay in Dordrecht? We had been enjoying lodging a little away from the city centres, and Dordrecht looked very beautiful scenically and architecturally, had a fascinating 18th-century house museum and plenty of great food options. It was a blast!
So incredible! I would love to see these places in person!
So good :)
Thanks Charles!
Lovely again, Peter. Always appreciate hearing about your travels, and how you share them is always enjoyable.
I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing a couple of Australian Christmases, and everyone I knew there was very cool about helping me have a place to be for the holidays. Loved the writing about and photography showing the Cologne Cathedral. Scale as spiritual experience. I’d really like to visit one day.
Cologne Cathedral was certainly the largest and most magnificently gothic cathedral we saw. Would highly recommend, even though it was flooded with tourists (and it was the off-season!).
Australian Christmases are indeed quite special in their own way -- and in a familiar, homely way for those of us who grew up going on sweaty camping holidays at the height of summer -- though it felt more symbolically rich to celebrate Christmas in the short, dark days of the depths of winter.
Thanks for following along, James! One postcard still to come.
wondering why Dordrecht...
Why did we stay in Dordrecht? We had been enjoying lodging a little away from the city centres, and Dordrecht looked very beautiful scenically and architecturally, had a fascinating 18th-century house museum and plenty of great food options. It was a blast!
I’ve been there a few times — did you see the yellow bicycles on the canal’s surface?
Unfortunately we did not!