bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

went on a bicycle trip again. goal: #appingedam, a cute town in the northeast of the province of #groningen.

I remember there being a beautiful river going right through the village. tourists always wanna go to giethoorn, but that shit is boring af and it's got nothing on appingedam.

off we go!

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago
the dutch sure love their water thingies! i'm not sure what this is called in english (it's called a lock! thanks petra and kelly!), but I think it's to let smol vessels traverse differences in water level. so the boat parks in the middle part, which will change the water to the target's level, and then the boat can continue boating there
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago
just some nice landscapes
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

LOOK AT HOW MANY WINDMILLS THERE ARE! yeah, zoom in on that stuff on the horizon. that's not normal. they have a windmill problem over there. just one more windmill bro, one more windmill will complete me. swear to god bro just one more windmill

(*to be clear I love windmills, they are dope af)

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago
WHAT IN THE HECK IS THIS! apparently this is what some think modern architecture should look like in appingedam. so this village has got the loveliest place in the netherlands, but it's also trying for the ugliest 😬
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

HERE IT IS! this is what I came here for! it's quite a big village, but somehow I found this spot immediately (I had no idea how to get there, I was just biking at random).

bit bummed out it wasn't as sunny anymore, but still a lovely photo imho!

also lilies for @jiub !!

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago
@jiub here's the fluffiest cat of appingedam. also it totally ignored me as I took photos from up close. I think this is the gang leader and it gives zero fucks about anyone.
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

@jiub so then my plan was to travel back home by train, but I JUST missed the train, so I figured I could bike one village further, the somewhat less idyllic village of #delfzijl

WELL GUESS WHAT

THEY ARE TRYING TO ONE UP APPINGEDAM FOR THE UGLIEST BUILDING EVER

AND THEY JUST MIGHT HAVE SUCCEEDED

WHAT EVEN IS THIS MONSTROSITY 👀

Show threadwordsmith‽ ⁂
@bazkie damn that's a satellite office for Crimson Permanent Assurance. So much bureaucracy.
Jun 6 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago
@wordsmith I figured maybe it was a clown suit factory or something!