4 Years Ago This Week!

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Pictures from my phone…

Leaving Olton station for Eastbourne.
In the lock at Eastbourne and bound for Dover!
  • Locking out at Eastbourne
  • Dungeness Power Station
  • On approach to Dover
  • Moored up in Dover
  • A view of the Castle from our berth
  • Cross Chaneel swimmers start point
  • Eastern exit of Dover
  • Dover Castle
  • Last RDF towers from the WW2
  • The Roman Lighthouse
Crossing the Channel – bound for Dunkirk
    • Fog on leaving Dover
    • Found it! Our crossing point of the TSS
    • Considering it is supposed to be the busiest shipping lane in the world….it was all rather quiet!
    • Crossing the TSS we had a friendly ship for company!
    • First sight of Dunkirk
    • Dunkirk
    Dunkirk
    • Port Du Grand Large
    • Everywhere there were traces of the evacuation
    • A steamer that took part in Operation Dynamo
    The beach made famous by Operation Dynamo!
    Dunkirk’s famous son! Jean Bart, the pirate. But he captured a Dutch grain fleet and saved Paris from starvation.

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    Together with our yacht Grace we cruised the Baltic Sea until the weather closed in and we could go no further!

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