TUE, 27 SEP 2022 – Day 2: Golden Circle/Hvolsvollur Valley - Make an early start to beat the crowds on the Golden Circle route. Head to Thingvellir National Park, home to the Parliament Plains and location of Icelands first parliament. Thingvellir also contains the Silfra fissure, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are slowly pulling apart. The resulting gap is partly filled w Read on...
Week 41 - 279 days of the year have gone already . There are 87 left until we see the back of 2020. What is this week going to bring? A course of moving about at home . I should Skype and join it but not sure that I will. It is Monday and the start of another week . I could have laid in this morning but Monday is swimming day. I looked out of the window and it was dark . The last few days have sta Read on...
Today was an iffy day weatherwise. We awoke early to the sound of rain on the tin roof, but got out the door by 7 am or so, packed with sandwiches and snorkeling equipment, but mainly to go birding in the Salinas (salty shallow waters) up near La Cabana. The rush hour at 7 was nothing like the other day at 8 am either.
We got a few photos of the usual water birds, adding a ruddy turnstone and kil Read on...
Many of you are big fans of Starbucks. Fine. I am a big fan of Peets Coffee. Fine. But when I travel, where do I get my coffee? First, I always bring my Peets French Roast with me. I try to make a cup or two in my room with the coffee maker (mostly poor quality, by the way), before I head out to breakfast or just more coffee. Second, I tend to skip Starbucks in favor of a local, or less popular pl Read on...
Am letzten Samstag bin ich wieder von Mnchen zu einer Prsenzwoche bei meinem Einsatz in Stuttgart gefahren und habe dabei einen Zwischenstopp in Freising eingelegt. Meine letzten beiden Besuche waren ja 1995 zu meiner Bundeswehrzeit im Berchtesgadener Land. Diesmal habe ich gut einen kostenlosen Parkplatz in der Nhe der Altstadt bekommen und bin zuerst am Rathaus gelandet, wo gerade Sanierungsarbe Read on...
I am clearly still partially on UK time as I was awake early so walked out to The Alamo which was only five minutes away and was illuminated at night. It is surprising what a difference moving 500 miles to the west makes as sunrise was significantly later than it had been in New Orleans.
I got talking to the Alamo Ranger who was outside the site even at that time in the morning. It seems that the Read on...
Another early morning, as we had to drive into Queenstown to board the West Coast Wilderness Railway, which was scheduled to leave at 9am. We headed out on the road at The sun was up and we had to drive straight into it, but the trip was uneventful and took about 40 minutes. We found a park and walked across to the station where we quickly were given our tickets and then made our way to Tracks Ca Read on...
BELFAST - In the 1800s, industry in Belfast was booming. Among shipbuilding and the production of rope and tobacco, the city paved the way in the worlds linen industry. By the end of the 19th Century Belfast was known as the worlds linen capital and was nicknamed Linenopolis.
Belfast was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, the world most famous ship which, when it was constructed in the early 1900 Read on...
On 22nd September we checked the weather forecast and learned that it might rain in the afternoon. We planned to do the country & coastal walk; I wore raincoat and mark took his umbrella. We took eastwards direction from our hotel. Our walking course was started from Narrow Cliff continuing from Cliff Road. We walked past Tolcarne Beach, Lusty Glaza Beach and reached Porth Beach – we saw those b Read on...
I have never been so phenomenally gifted at anything to merit the epithet ‘master; however, I am, or have been, good at a number of things.
Lets start with sport. In my youth, I played football, rugby, cricket, tennis and table tennis. I hated rugby because it was too physical but enjoyed the rest. My best sports were tennis and table tennis. My greatest table tennis feat was winning the Mens S Read on...