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Berlin
Berlin is a great city to visit, especially if you also have family to visit. Pictures and details to follow when I have proper Internet access!
I’ve had a wonderful day today, thank you R & N.
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Chloe – 1 year
I can’t figure out why the video to the right of the image doesn’t display (in Safari) or run (in Chrome) on an iPad – any ideas?
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Cowes, IOW + boats in Southampton Water
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An Isle of Wight panorama
A panorama made up of 5 images stitched together. Click the image for a bigger version.
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IOW, Yarmouth to The Needles
I’m a huge fan of the coastal Hampshire town of Lymington and the coastal town of Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, and of the ferry linking the two!
On a glorious spring day it took me four hours to get to Yarmouth (walk, train, train, train, ferry from Lymington). After spending just over four hours walking the coastal path to The Needles and around this wonderful location, I returned to the ferry port at Yarmouth on a windswept, open-top bus (watch your head on those overhanging trees!). Another four-plus hours to get back home, but what a glorious day, including much quality reading-time on the trains.
The first third of this coastal walk is barely coastal since it veers inland, through and around holiday-home estates, but after that it’s a pleasurable walk. It seemed to be mainly uphill all the way to the Needles!
As is becoming the norm, my blog images are big, and bigger still if you click on them. I’m still over-editing them so that some look more like paintings than photographs. Perhaps I want to be a painter but don’t have the necessary skills! Note that ghostly images 2 and 3 are of the wonderful Hurst Castle (www.hurstcastle.co.uk) – another great place to visit from Lymington.
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The Establishment – Owen Jones
The Establishment – And how they get away with it, by Owen Jones, is a brilliant demolition job on who runs the UK. Well written and informative, you’ll view ‘the news’ in a different light after reading it.Ridiculously young and eloquent, Jones describes himself as a “4th generation socialist”. He writes for The Guardian, can occasionally be seen on BBC Newsnight and has written a terrific book. What’s there not to like!
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Sky Garden – London
I came across a blog post about London’s Sky Garden, which I hadn’t heard of before. Click on the image to read the full blog post or click on the Sky Garden’s website.
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I have hugged an angel
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Kings Cross area, London
With so much development going on in the Kings Cross area, you can expect to find something new on each visit. Click on an image for a larger version.
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The Hythe Ferry, from Southampton
The ferry from Southampton to Hythe (The Hythe Ferry!) is a fabulous excursion for any visitor to Southampton. A 15 minute boat trip on what seems like an old tug, past a liner if you’re lucky, and then to the end of a 600 metre pier and on to a clunky old train along the pier (or you can walk it). The small town of Hythe is in need of updating, but that’s not what you come for – you come for the ride!
There is a rather good website for the ferry – http://www.hytheferry.co.uk.
I make no excuse for the large pictures below (click them for even bigger ones), nor for the extreme image enhancements. This blog is for my enjoyment and I like how the images have come out. I was using my old point-and-shoot camera, so JPG enhancements were very much necessary. I just went a bit far with the arty-farty stuff!
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