Lee, Amanda and I walked for over 20 miles around Hebden Bridge. It took us about 8 hours - although Lee was a bit enthused when we got back so told them to write 6 hours on our certificates instead! Spectacular country... especially the last leg that was next to a stream and in amongst forest.
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Amanda's sister Georgie has been around horses since she was young - She's teaching Ozzy to jump - although Lee and I were doing much more sedate moves.
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Interesting architecture here - since meeting Lee I'm much more aware of carved stone - and how long it would have taken to make many of the facades and monuments!
Zagreb was an interesting city - a great size to wander around. Croatian people are quite friendly too!
Ahh sun, blue sparkling beaches and old fortifications! An interesting place, although took quite some effort to be social as I was staying at a hotel (and paying too much for it too!). Most photos are self explanatory... the misc photo has pics of water polo in the harbour, the traditional dancers that I saw, and the view Ivana and I had from the rocks outside the Lazaretti club we were at!
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I felt like I needed to learn more about architecture after leaving here. I saw buildings exhibiting just about every style there was! The cathedral was stunning! ... well it had better be after it took them a few hundred years to finish!
Back in Krakow, the only place I revisited. The jazz was good, although I spent more time talking to the people that I'd met! Not so many pics this time.
Reflections are interesting (from Prague)... and I thought the symmetry of 10 drinks on the bar was quite kewl (from Krakow)... perhaps it's just me ;-p
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Finally more pictures! I've been so busy doing stuff that I haven't had enough time to sort out uploading them. This time I decided to do tons of collages, partly because as an unemployed bum I have time :-) and also cos it's quite fun!
Pictures of Eastern Europe, Yorkshire and Bozen/Bolzano to follow.
Olafur Eliasson's giant sun was erected as part of the Weather Project at Tate Modern. You might be able to spot me as one of the lying bods if you look closely.
My birthday wasn't that interesting this year, but it's nice to be invited to various shindigs of other people. On the menu was tappas at Beth's, fancy Italian at Phil's and cake outdoors at Tim's!
I caught up with Liz and Jim just after Easter this year. Just worked out that they are my first cousins twice removed (and their children, who I have yet to meet, are second cousins once removed! arghh confusing!). The piccys are from Stratford-Upon-Avon (read - Shakespeare lived here) and Oxford. The wedding invite is the one that Liz's parents received for the wedding of my great grandparents in 1926!
Cambridge was fun - It was a really nice day, well when I wasn't punting us into trees! Ended up missing the train home and had to crash on the floor at one of George's friend's place.
Tis quite sad when people leave - but a bit of a common occurance when you are or meet travellers. Lisa has started work as a ballet teacher in Dubai, and Muriel is probably in Australia by now, doing ethnomusicology research with tribal Aboriginal people in the desert!
There were tons of going away partys when I left teaching. Was really great to go out and about with collegues - to somewhere other than the local!
An *excellent* club near Hoxton Sq. There was this excellent funky blues band, the lead singer was also playing harmonica... they had furry drums! And we went a bit crazy. I really like the err-whaa picture... have no idea who the girl is!
Some snaps from a visit to Kew Gardens with Magdalena and from watching the Notting Hill Carnival with Lee.
Tis quite amazing to party with 50,000 people! The Isle of Wight festival was excellent, as was the flag waving at Proms in the Park.
Socialising in the capital... is quite fun! Even when it rains or you bump heads :-)
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Hello All! Yepp, more photos - Still have tons from before to comment... These are just a random collection of stuff that I've done since visiting Aus (the last 9 weeks)! Again in chronological order.
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Hi Everyone
Sorry - know these photos have taken a while - still need so many descriptions! Doing too much these days, including getting no sleep - went to a huge club on Sat (first time in a while) and then caught the wrong night bus home... ended up sleeping at a bus stop in Plumstead for > 1/2 hr! Managed to get home safely, albeit a bit late... At least I had some good stories to tell Kylie and Aimee when I met them on Sunday!
I owe a few of you some emails... will aim to fix those up over the next couple of weeks - for now though just want to say a big thankyou to everyone who was happy to party and lose sleep during my 5 1/2 week hol! Cheers ppl, look after yourselves! :-)
*Pics appear in strict "date taken" order.* (Hope you appreciate it, took a bit of organising!)
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Just a few snaps - didn't want to be the photo guy! Bob looked after that - will have to grab some images off him!
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I went with Lee and Phil to the premierre of Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. Had the camera on rapid fire so got quite a few good pics! Especially of Lucy Liu - she seemed to like the limelight more than Cameron or Drew. Drew just walked really quickly past everyone!! I can put some pics of her up but they are no where near as good as the ones I have for Cameron or Lucy. Let me know if you want me to upload the full sized versions (not just the collages of the pics).
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... and outside of it!
I was staying with my Auntie Mabel. Saw the place where my Great Grandpa was born and lived - not the original buildings though so I didn't get a photie of that. My two-greats-grandmother's house was just across the road from where I was staying. Here's a timer photo of me and mabel though. :-)
Candace, Brendon, Sam
Lisa went to Gibraltar and Morocco - look at all the trinkets she brought back! Gee gals can shop!
Lisa's Trinkets
My new house: We sometimes have tons of candles burning on the mantlepiece of the loungeroom... very atmospheric!
Mantlepiece Candles
My keyboard, and my bay window taken from my bed. The afternoon sun streaming in makes it really nice to play! It's so hard to take photos of rooms! Need a wide angle lens - I'll include a photo of my fireplace when I've fixed it up. At the moment there's an Oasis poster covering it up to keep the draft out - I'm going to put something in the flue to plug it though and then it will look nice enough to include.
Beth's birthday: The night started out with a game of naughts-and-crosses shots. Drink up Phil!
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The end of the night - we were at the pub, then back to the lounge room. From L: Lee, Phil, Beth, Claire & Mwa
... and the result
Walking Around - the heath at Blackheath, about 20 minutes walk from my place
Blackheath View
and Greenwich Park, on the far side of the heath. This picture is from the Greenwich side of the park - you can see all the English people soaking up sunshine- last weekend was really nice! The building with all the pillars is the maritime museum, and the tall buildings in the background are Canary Wharf.
Greenwich View
Last night: We were supposed to go on a free river cruise (Lisa works for the company) but it didn't turn out. Instead we just hit a pub or two (and I might say that the alcohol hit me back! Was a quiet morning). So twas my ex and current housemates - a good mix!
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Sorry, they're a bit blurry! [update... was always going to put more piccies of the barbershop up here! - Will link to a piccy of Candace here too - an entry with just one photo seems a bit too empty ;-) ]
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Hello guys...
Time for a few more photos! :-)
Errr... over 30 of them!
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cathedral
coloseum
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fountain
gondolaride
graveyard
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Venice
Bridge of Sighs
The most famous bridge... the high up one... the prisoners were transported to the dungeons from the palace via this bridge.
Sunset Cathedral
Ohhh sun in piccies is good!
St Marco Square
I think my camera was on the wrong setting... everything is kinda bluey. You can se St Mark's cathedral and the rats with wings :-) Are the walkways in the photo? Imagine the whole thing with 1/2 ft of water, and people walking on the planks! I didn't see it...
Gondola Ride
Ohhh expensive way to see the city. Would be kinda kewl though.
Cathedral
Errrr... what's in this piccy again? Will have to update this description!
On the bus
This is from a vaporetto... what counts as a bus in Venice. Twas fun!
Graveyard Island
They have an island of gardens and graves. We went past it on the way to murano. There's a vaporetto in the foreground.
Murano Canal
Ohh sun piccy again :-)
Murano Glass
Not sure why, but I love the glass flowers!
Sicily
Greek Ruins
Castelmola
Think they could squash a few more buildings on there?
What a balcony!
The sea and Mt Etna
Castelmola view
Rome
Pope Piccies
The crowd
Papa
In red...
Ancient temples
The ruins at the left of the photo are the remains of the roman senate building, where Julius Ceasar was murdered!
Dodgey guys ripping off nuns!
Vatican Ceiling
Flag throwing
This was something kewl I'd never seen before... dancing, marching and throwing flags!
Sam with a sword...
Errr rip off photo! This guy charged us €2.50 a piece!
Coloseum
Statue
I just love those statues with tons of people in them!
Famous fountain
Big statues in St Maria's
St Peters Cathedral
St Peter in Flowers
Vatican Statues
Roman Baths
London
All those controls...
Housemates Farid & Nat
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