Various videos

All videos were recorded with a Sony Bloggie

Luxembourg

Arrived in Luxembourg this afternoon, just a quick stopover as we get a train in the morning back to Paris (protests, blocked roads, looting, burning tyres, the usual French thing), then a train to Tours. Major train strike today in Paris, however should only be minor interruptions tomorrow, no point going on strike on the weekend, you wont annoy enough people.

Only change we would have made to our plans would have been to bypass Brussells and have an extra night here in Luxembourg.

As we didn't have much time, we did the tourist thing of getting on the 'Hop On Hop Off' tourist bus then wandered around the city.

As YouTube video is much better quality than blogger, I am uploading them to youtube and embedding them in the blog site. The extra step is worth the better quality.

Guard at the Royal Palace

Frances Day Of Action

Some of you may have heard that the French Government have raised the retirerment age to 62. The workers do not want it. We have been the brunt of them striking, canceled trains(with out notice) no fuel and then there is their protest marches with crackers and passionate marchers.

Views from Reims

CHURCH DOOR

JOAN OF ARC

FOUNTAIN IN MALL

Bubbles

Geoff and I are currently in Reims an area knowen for it Champange. After tasting four glasses yesterday and learning about it making I Know why they charge so much.

Windmills in Amsterdam

Geoff and I caught a train out to see the windmills.The weather was just right for turning the blades. One of the mills cuts wood for renovations and the othe one that was working extracted peanut oil.

Luxembourg here we come..

Slight change in the train timetable, but we are currently on a Thales highspeed train (1st class of course), breakfast and wifi is provided in 1st class. I'll update this entry with some photos soon of Amsterdam.

Some useless information about Amsterdam;

• Population 750,000
• 1,000,000 bikes
• Canels are 3 mtr's deep
• 1 mtr of the canel is full of bikes
• Canels are dredged every 3 months for bikes (this bit is true anyway)
• Locks are closed during the night 3 times a week to flush the canels
• Approx. 3000 house boats are permanently moored.
• Houseboat toilets do discharge into the canel (Important..always reel in your fishing line before flushing, not sure Catherine fully appreciated this advice when I called out to her at the time)

I assume there is a boat attached to the rope, fuel tank and outboard motor

This one might have a faulty bilge pump

Fishing village

Fishing Village

Was VERY cold, wet and windy in the fishing village

Floating trailer trash

Tomorrow morning we leave for Luxembourg, if the train is running and the internet is working I'll post some photos then.

Video deleted for editing

More video taken today.

Great view of Amsterdam

Photos for Boyd