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Week 1 – Facts, Figures and Pictures

Week 1 – Facts, Figures and Pictures

  We’ve been on the road for a week now. A short summary in numbers and pictures:   Accomodation [table th=”0″] Hotels,1 Private Rooms,2 [/table] Transport [table th=”0″] Bus/Guagua,2 Taxi,2 Taxi drives in which we ended up telling the driver the way,2 Motoconcho (backseat of a small motorbike),1 Taxi/Moto-Offers we turned down because we REALLY wanted to walk,approx. 74 (mostly in Bavaro/Punta Cana area) Motorboat,1 [/table] Weather [table th=”0″] Sunshine hours,basically all from sunrise to sunset. Except for some short…

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Scroby Sand

Scroby Sand

One of the first commercial offshore windfarms in the UK sits just three kilometers off the coast in Great Yarmouth. It consists of 30 turbines with a capacity of 60 megawatts that have been feeding electricity into the grid since 2005. The wind farm has also become a major tourist attraction: E.ON runs an information center (which was closed today, unfortunately, like half of the stores and restaurants in the city center during the winter months) and boat trips take…

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