Our last weekend's trip (3)

Today Blogger is much faster, so here is the rest of the pictures from our daytrip a little more than a week ago. In my former two posts you'll find some pics from the city Middelburg, today I post some pics from the nearby city Vlissingen or in English "Flushing" (??). A more extended history of Vlissingen can be found here (requires Acrobat Reader)

Most of the pics will speak for themselves, so I'll only post some short comment here and there.

Vlissingen was together with Middelburg and Amsterdam the most important harbour during the Dutch Golden Age and on a strategic location. The most famous person from Vlissingen was admiral Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter, the most famous person in Dutch naval history












Modern wall paintings go hand in hand with more scenic and historical sceneries.












First we thought wow, nice colourful fronts on these houses when we entered this street.

But things are not always what they seem!

Not all grafiti is a defacement of the wall!

I wished I was two doggies
Then I could play together
(Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer)

Our last weekend's trip (2)

As I promised yesterday here are some more pics from our daytrip to Middelburg and Vlissingen last week Sunday March 19th.
Blogger is still slow, but not as slow as last night. But it still took 3 to 4 minutes to upload a picture, so for now I'll only post the selected pics from Middelburg. The broader selection still can be seen at my on-line album at Photobucket. Tomorrow I'll post the rest of the selected pics from Vlissingen, unless Blogger is still slow.
This is the "Lange Jan" (Long John) a 89 metres high church tower.

This is the same churchtower, but from a different angle.

The dome that you see belongs to the "Oostkerk" (Eastchurch)








Some of the (restored?) merchanthouses that shows the prosperous past of Middelburg.

On this insignia you'll find the Latin motto of the province of Zeeland: Luctor et Emergo, I wrestle and rise above. In the insignia you see a lion standing till it's waist in the water, representing the neverending struggle of Zeeland against the water. Through the centuries Zeeland was in a constant battle with the sea. The last devastating flood was in 1953, which killed more than 1800 people. This flood triggered the start of an enormous Deltaplan which was an ingenious system of deltaworks, which took a few decades to realize.

Our last weekend's trip (1)

Last weekend Noriko and I went on a daytrip to the cities Middelburg and Vlissingen in the province of Zeeland, located on the coast in the South-West of Holland. We could travel for free by train, because of some national promotionweek for the book. Normally you don't go to this part of the country so quickly, but this was a good opportunity to explore this part of the country. Both Middelburg and Vlissingen have small but scenic and historical centres. Some of the history of Middelburg can be found here, here and here.

Well, You'll have to do it with one pic for now. Uploading pictures is extremely slow right now on Blogger and often even fails. It took about 10 minutes before I manage to add one picture to this post and because I have about 12 to 14 pics to post I decided to leave it to this one pic for today. I'll try to post the rest of the pics tomorrow. By the way this is the gorgeous 16th century town hall of Middelburg.

For those who can't wait till tomorrow for the rest of the selected pictures, they can check here, for a broader selection of pics from our daytrip.