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.

    Published by graceandus

    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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