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Number 31: From Netherlands to Germany

June 2007

Hello!

There are the photos from the Netherlands to Germany. I spent many days camping and also in friend's houses, both couchsurfers and new friends that I met on my way. Always very nice and hospitable people!
Cheers!

Edgard Gaio

Help the bike! Amsterdan.

Nice poster.

The land of bicycles!

Container's houses. I was astonished that there are people living in containers in the first world!

Lies and Aldo, the couchsurfer friends from Zandvoort - they already had hosted me and my mum, last november. Thanks again, good friends!!!

This looks for me a movie in some southeastern Asia landscape...

Bether dont talk about their hair...

some flowers in Holand are NOT in a green house...

Dique.

The land's level is below the sea level!

The tipical mill.

I did not pay camping sites, I prefer to find some bush and pitch my tent in. The problem is to find a bush in Holand!

Part of the cycle route. Sometimes is just necessary to have a small strip to ride the bike, and the sinalization, of course.

A port village.

After crossing the huge north dique, 35 Km with the wind blowing against me, I reached the small village of Dronrijp. I was wondering where pirch my tent when a gentleman sayd good afternoon in portuguese to me! Dirk, that is his name, is married with Elisa, from Angola, and he invited me to spend the night on their home. We had a very nice conversation in portuguese, english and also a musical conversation with drums! Ah, their dog is called Soba, that means tribal chief in Angola.

Sanne, the couchsurfer who hosted me in Groningen. She lives in an old catholic hospital that was squatted and transformed in a student house. And they build a nice community there, with bars, a cinema, everything running with voluntary work!

The tipical dutch shoe that is still used in the countryside.

There are these bridges everywhere.

There are so many cycle routes that is even difficult to follow one without a map.

Wind power!

Finally Germany! The first couchsurfing here was in Steffen's home, was a very nice weekend in his family house, where he came back every weekend from the city where he study - it remember me when I did the same studying in Campinas and going back to Guaratinguetá in the weekends, to met friends, party, and have fun!

Jerve, Germany. I spent the night in the house of a Steffen's father friends, Fidi and Livio. They were very hospitable!

Funny face!

Almost in Bremen.

Bremen.

School bus - Bremen.

Laura, Marco's sister (the guy who hosted me in Aberdeen). As her brother. she was very hospitable!

Beer land!

Ready for the rain, going to Hamburg.

I found many of these small "self service shops", where the small farmers sells from potatos to flowers - you choose it and pay, there are no one to take care of the shop...