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1484524800 Germany 1484352000 Austria 1484006400 Belgium 1440975600 Denmark 1440630000 Norway 1440543600 Sweden 1440198000 Luxembourg 1438902000 Italy 1410130800 San Marino 1409353200 Hungary 1409094000 Switzerland 1408402800 France 1408316400 Slovakia 1374966000 Slovenia 1374706800 Croatia 1374534000 Czech Republic 1373324400 Poland 1372374000 Lithuania 1372114800 Latvia 1371769200 Estonia 1371596400 Russia 1371423600 Serbia 8550000 Macedonia 8463600 Greece 8377200 Turkey 8290800 Bulgaria 8204400 -
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Day 110
7 Aug 2013
Rotterdam
As mentioned before a I sometimes visit a place not only for myself but for a person I know or is dear to me. Today's visit was for my brother Frans who was a Royal Marine earlier in life, and by the stories he has told me over the years it was the best time of his life. He was based in Rotterdam, Doorn, the Island of Texel and in the West Indies on the Dutch Island of Curacao.
Along the quay of the "Wine Harbour", about two hundred meters from the Maritime Museum , (where I walked past and took some pictures) is the Mariniers Museum. The “Korps Mariniers” or Marine Corps was created in 1665 AD when Johan de Wit suggested that war ships should have soldiers on board in order to win the battles against the English. (There is an explanation of this in one of the pictures.)
What I had been looking for I did not see. Although interesting for most people, I came to see if there was anything about the four locations above, but there was nothing there.
A bit disappointed I left the building and headed for the Mariniers barracks 4 km away.. I did not have to look for the address as I remembered it well. When I was ten years old I had written my brother many letters and cards via this address.
Again not all that much to see other than the main gate , buildings, masts and flags, all partly hidden behind a row of scrubs, but it was good to see where he had hung out for a few of those six years he had been a Marine.
One interesting thing I saw was in the museum a film about the bombing of Rotterdam on day 4 of the start of the war were the city was bombed into submission. Rotterdam has no old centre or old buildings as the entire city centre had been destroyed with great loss of life. The heart was torn out of the city; this is portrayed by a famous war memorial depicting a person reaching out to the sky , obviously in pain and with his heart torn of his body.
7 Aug 2013
Rotterdam
As mentioned before a I sometimes visit a place not only for myself but for a person I know or is dear to me. Today's visit was for my brother Frans who was a Royal Marine earlier in life, and by the stories he has told me over the years it was the best time of his life. He was based in Rotterdam, Doorn, the Island of Texel and in the West Indies on the Dutch Island of Curacao.
Along the quay of the "Wine Harbour", about two hundred meters from the Maritime Museum , (where I walked past and took some pictures) is the Mariniers Museum. The “Korps Mariniers” or Marine Corps was created in 1665 AD when Johan de Wit suggested that war ships should have soldiers on board in order to win the battles against the English. (There is an explanation of this in one of the pictures.)
What I had been looking for I did not see. Although interesting for most people, I came to see if there was anything about the four locations above, but there was nothing there.
A bit disappointed I left the building and headed for the Mariniers barracks 4 km away.. I did not have to look for the address as I remembered it well. When I was ten years old I had written my brother many letters and cards via this address.
Again not all that much to see other than the main gate , buildings, masts and flags, all partly hidden behind a row of scrubs, but it was good to see where he had hung out for a few of those six years he had been a Marine.
One interesting thing I saw was in the museum a film about the bombing of Rotterdam on day 4 of the start of the war were the city was bombed into submission. Rotterdam has no old centre or old buildings as the entire city centre had been destroyed with great loss of life. The heart was torn out of the city; this is portrayed by a famous war memorial depicting a person reaching out to the sky , obviously in pain and with his heart torn of his body.
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