Sunday, July 14, 2013

Benelux April 2013 -- Now we return to our original programming with Street Vehicles

Trout is always interested in the vehicles we see on these trips.  This is a composite of the ones that were not race cars.  We saw these on the street or while driving.

This motorcycle was waiting for us when we came out of the Franz Hals Museum in Haarlem.


 



This was someone's personal car at the race track in Zandvoort.

 
This was our rental piece of ecologically correct automotive frustration.  It is designed to die when you stop to save fuel.  It's a stick, so when you put the clutch in, it started up again.  That was a lot of fun for Trout in stop and go traffic.




 
I don't know what this car is, but it was worth a "quick, Lo, take some pictures" on the way from Bruges to Spa-Francorchamps.




 
We circled around twice to get pictures of this car on the way to Keukenhof.



 
 
This is some kind of special handicapped car that we saw in Bruges. 

 
This is upright in my saved pictures, but for the life of me, I could not get it to be right here.  Weird.  Oh well, don't hurt your neck looking at it.
 
 
Now these were a big surprise.  We saw them after the flower parade.  Fun. 
 
 


 




 
This was in the parking lot close to our B&B in Leiden.  I don't think it moved the whole time we were there.


 
Trout just had to take this picture because my scarf matched the car.

 
And I had to take these because the bike matched the car.


 
We called these vehicles "Pinocchios" in Italy.  They are very common all over Europe.  There's a little truck bed on the back.

 
Two cars in charging stations just down the street from our apartment in Amsterdam.

 
And another more attractive one across the street.


 
You can see Trout across the street on the corner supervising my picture-taking.

 
This looks at first like an ordinary sedan.  Why would Trout want a picture?  It's an OPEL!


 
 
There will be a few more cars in future postings, but these are the "special" ones.