Gilbert - A Fun Trip part 3: Deventer (1)

 

On the second day of out trip we went to Deventer.

A city in Overijssel, the Netherlands.

It was a very pretty city in my opinion.

We found a church!

When I saw this statue from a distance I thought it might be a pig statue because of the look of the ears. It was dogs though...

We spotted a Free Little Library.

There was even one book in English in it that sounded interesting.

The weather was really lovely.

I saw an old bear and waved at her.

When we found the town square it turned out they were busy building a ferris wheel!

The statue of former queen Wilhelmina didn't seem to mind. 

More fair construction.

Cool building with lions.

This statue looked like he had serious WTF thoughts about the fair.

We saw a beer cafe that had a witch crashing into it.

A Pig!

Otters

There were umbrellas decorating the streets.

Do you see the elephant?

A big wall painting.

As I said: Deventer looked really pretty.

Coming Next: lunch, buildings, and a church

Gilbert - A Fun Trip part 2: Buildings & Food

 

After looking around in the city center of Leer we went in search of the hunting lodge.

Random building in Leer I should have posted with the previous post.

We found the hunting lodge.

It didn't looks impressive, and we didn't want to visit the garden or spend money to look around inside.

We did spot a church across the street though!

We decided to have a closer look

There was a small, but beautiful graveyard.

And a church bell...

Hunting lodge as seen from the graveyard

Next we drove on to Diana's house. 

We relaxed a bit, and in the evening we went out for dinner.

I had a cocktail!

(Swimming Pool)

There were all kinds of yummy snacks.

And a delicious dessert!

More on my trip soon (probably).

Gilbert - A Fun Trip part 1: Birds & More

 

In May we went on a trip!

Diana came to pick us up to stay at her place for a couple of days.

But before driving to her house: 

We went to an event!

'De slag bij Heiligerlee'

It's a reenactment of a battle from 1568.

The battle wouldn't start for a couple of hours when we arrived, but there was other stuff to see as well, so we walked around for a bit.

We met this monk and his owl!

He told us there was a bird show that had just started, so we went there to watch of course.

There was a vulture!

Isn't she cool?!

I forgot what kind of bird this was, but it had learned to hunt together with the dog. Very fun to see them work together. 

Well, this bird doesn't need introduction!

After seeing the bird show we walked around some more, but it was very wet and rainy, so we didn't wait for the battle to start. Instead we drove on to Leer.

Leer is a city in Germany.

We had heard it was a nice city to see and that there was a hunting lodge.

It started raining here as well.

So we decided to go in search for a late lunch first.

Found it!

And it was yummy!

We did some sightseeing when it stopped raining.

Rainy Piggy

Next: More things to see in Leer.