Saturday, July 24, 2010
Denver, UK to Bad Essen, Germany
Not perturbed by blusterous conditions over the UK, we decided to push ahead with our departure in light of an impending powerful low pressure system. Winds were so strong over the channel that we weren't sure that we would want to go any further than Calais. The necessary fuelling stop at Earl's Coln in Essex subjected us to 'hit the roof' strength wind shear on final approach. Helen has learned to not yell into her microphone when that happens these days which is a huge improvement. Once in France, we landed at Calais to clear immigration into the Shengan area. The wind was straight down the runway but strong enough that we only making 30 knot over the ground. We only needed a few meters of their runway!
Once on the continent, the weather was vastly improved and we had the advantage of a 15kt tail wind up the coast into Belgium, over the Netherlands and into Germany to our destination Bad Essen where we wanted to meet up with a friend of Helen's.
I must have enough shots of 'weird and whacky things from above' for a decent sized coffee book by now. Here were a few on this leg. We often see things that we don't understand and then try to work out later. A bag of weird Swedish lollies in the post to anyone who can set us straight on these;
Dutch horse race track in the middle of one of their inland fresh water lakes?
Lock system that needs a large concrete area around the tight channels (bottom right)?
Dyke wall with funky green tinge sand bar patterns due to tides?
River flood barrier?
Nothing too puzzling about this one of Oostend, Belgium. I just like the wind turbines with a PV panel array (centre of pic, above the river);
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