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Latest photos.... The European Parliament & beautiful StrasbourgLucerne & Weggis, Switzerland
The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice
Here’s an interesting article from the San Francisco Chronicle that caught my eye. Published just after Hawking passed away it tells the story of the efforts of a dedicated technical team, including some of the original developers of Stephen Hawking’s voice...
Postcard from….the Sydney & Hunter Valley food & drink scene
When I look back over the hundreds of photographs I’ve taken over the past few weeks there are a lot focused on the food and drink we’ve enjoyed. There are many of the sights and bucket-list experiences we’ve undertaken too but our enjoyment of shared food and drink...
Postcard from….Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach is Australia’s most famous beach and one of its most iconic attractions. Of the many Sydney beaches it’s probably the only one a yak herder from Mongolia would be able to name, as someone (not me) once said. It’s brash, colourful, young, surfer culture,...
Postcard from….Manly
Monday @ Manly A guy gets on our bus dressed in singlet, shorts, thongs, dreadlocks, shades, Beats headphones and carrying a full-sized surfboard. Where am I?California. Or maybe Bali. But the rest of the bus is full of Australians so probably Sydney then. We got on...
Postcard from….Sydney
We’ve had a lovely time since we arrived in Sydney on Sunday. It's been too hot, with Sunday’s searing 47 degree daytime heat in parts of the city and then a hot night we were tired on Monday. Then on Monday night we had thunderstorms almost every hour which kept us...
Postcard from….Inle Lake, Myanmar
A Thousand Years in 10 Days We have never witnessed poverty like we’re seeing across Myanmar. Ladies washing the family clothes and themselves whilst fully dressed in the river, cooking dinner over an open fire and relying on those huge bundles of clothes that arrive...
Postcard from….Thelwe airport departure lounge
A thousand years in 10 days Over the last couple of days our very lovely Ngapali resort has been filling up with New Year guests, mainly, it seems, little round Koreans. No, not that little round Korean...wait, one of them is wearing funny round sunglasses....no, it’s...
Postcard from….Myanmar
Ngapoli, Bay of Bengal, Christmas Day 2017 Myanmar, or Burma, if you prefer. What a country! This is, without any doubt, the most amazing, friendly and truly extraordinary country we have ever visited. Each day of our short tour of Myanmar / Burma shows us another...
