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Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Vilnius Tibet Support Group

18 August: Vilnius Tibet Support Group Monday evening at 7pm I had arranged to meet Robertas and his friends from the Vilnius Tibet support group. He couldn't have chosen a more symbolic meeting place: Tibet Square in the heart of the old town. This square is in the territory of the 'Free Republic of Uzupis', a [...]

Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Copernicus museum in Frombork

all photos from Frombork 8 August: Piaski/Frombork - Pasleka Lake The predicted stable dry weather was not to be. At 6:30 it started raining again for more than an hour. Packing the tent wet....The water tram to Frombork was packed. I had not managed to book online, but luckily I was still allowed on, albeit without a seat. [...]

Compassion Rising Tour 2025: Gdansk

all photos from Gdansk Aug 4: European Solidarity Centre and World War II Museum. You can't leave Gdansk without visiting these two impressive buildings. With the European Solidarity Centre, I managed to do so on Monday. On Tuesday, I had reserved the whole afternoon for the war museum, but failed to visit it. There was [...]

Compassion Rising Tour 2025: mock airfield 'The Kiek'

Messcherschmitt BF 109 How the Germans led the Allies around the garden... Photos Mock airfield 5 July - In 1940, the Germans constructed a mock airfield between Riel and Alphen, right next to the former railway line that has now been converted into cycle route 'Bels Lijntje'. The German designation was Kamerun SF37, but local residents know the airfield as 'The [...]

Bike tour 2023: Golegã

 6-8 April: Golegã, capital of horses and pioneer in photographyThursday evening I arrived at the Parque de Campismo Municipal da Golegã. On a road sign, I read that Golegã was the 'horse capital' of Portugal. I would stay here for two nights, but I was intrigued by the horses and also by the very special photography studio of 19th-century amateur photographer Carlos [...]

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