Pingu Travel - Pingu in car crash

This image shows where I normally live on the yacht. The car on the right is a model of what the Ancient Mariner has at home. His friends call it a "tart trap" - he says it doesn’t work. We left Blankenberge in Belgium very early in the morning to go home to Harwich. It all has something to do with the Cook wanting to go to a party. We hit a very big wave and the car flew across the yacht and hit me in the goolies - however being squeezey and cuddly the car just bounced back. The Ancient Mariner said a word I did not understand and then turned round and we went back to Blankenberge.

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Pingu and the Ancient Mariner in deep discussion; The Ancient Mariner has a large Pimm's in hand, Pingu looks on enviously but deep down is still not sure what Pimm's is.

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Pingu sitting on the beach on the Island of Ossehoek in the Grevelingenmeer in southern Holland.
It was off this beach that both of the Ancient Mariners children learned to row, played endlessly in the sand and then like all siblings throw sand at each other!
To the Ancient Mariner's family the island has always been known as Dinghy Island.

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The restaurant Het Wapen van Willenstad at Willenstad in southern Holland. The Ancient Mariner and the Cook celebrated their first wedding anniversary here in 1981.

From their comments I gather it is just as good today; I was only allowed to watch with envy as large plates of moules were devoured.
Mind you when they discussed the bill I did wonder whether they were paying for lunch or buying the restaurant!

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Pingu is back in Holland. Great excitement as he was taken for a cycle along a canal towpath by the cook.

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getting up help

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Paddington and I might be able to stop a motorway but Dutch railways are different. Here you have to wait for the railway to be clear.
This is at Gouda railway Bridge. The old bridge is in the foreground and the new one is the tower looking structure in the background.
You might just make out the sign saying when the next opening is going to be, 21.13 in our case.