A couple of weeks ago Ducky suggested a “slides evening” where we can share our favourite travel slides. Well, this is your chance, Pubsters.
The way I suggest we do it is for you to send me your jpgs. I will put the jpgs into the library asap, and will send you the html for each one. You can then put up a comment with one or more of the pics, plus some information about your visit.
There may be a delay from time to time, as unfortunately Maestro CK Watt’s laptop has gone on sulk, possibly permanently. So I will look after the raffle too.
Very few of my travel slides have been digitised, so I have hunted on the web for images of some of my favourite foreign places looking as near as possible as they did when I first saw them. However, the travel theme is NOT restricted to non-Australian places!
From the Grand Tour of November 1978 – April 1979, then, I give you a street in St Paul de Vence, not all that far from one of CTar’s preferred places:
(Image Credit: Matyas Dubal)
The Coliseum in Rome (my first glimpse of it was from this angle, but further away, and it was one of those jolt to the solar plexus moments of recognition.
My first glimpse of the Alps was – once again – more distant than this. For a moment I couldn’t work out why the clouds on the horizon had such peaked tops . . .
Heather Whelan)
We had two goes at visiting Greece. The first time – during our month in Italy – the Brindisi ferry sailors were on strike. The second time – nearly at the end of our three months in continental Europe – we did a mad sprint by various trains from Paris to Brindisi. This time the ferry did sail, and we had four days in Greece, including one at Delphi. Another of those moments of recognition.
(Image Credit: University of Texas)
The Grand Tour started and ended in England (well, it was winter when we arrived, and a very cold and late spring for the final month of our time). We spent the first month staying at a B&B in Bloomsbury, spending most of the time exploring London (almost entirely by foot) during the day, and exploring the theatres and concert halls by night. (We also managed day trips to Brighton and Oxford). For our final month we hired a car – a Mini (all we could afford) – into and out of which 6’4″ OH had to shoehorn himself. Unlike the Minis in Australia, the driver’s seat did not go back very far, and he was most uncomfortable. So he was generally reluctant to stop and look at things, because of the agony of getting out and then back in. I did persuade him to stop at Stonehenge, however. It was late in March, blowing a gale; we were the only humans there, and this was way before the days of the fence, the Visitors’ Centre, and all the other paraphernalia now there. It was a truly haunting experience.
(Image Credit: Stonehenge News and Information)
Later this evening I will put up some more images of my travels before and after the Grand Tour (if I have time).
Welcome all, to this evening’s entertainment, including special viewings of distant places with the assistance of the latest wonder of modern science, the Magic Lantern!
Any 3 please, Mrs Richards
Fiona
I will look after the raffle as you will be busy.
Raffle tonight only for those patrons that request numbers.
gotta be init to winit
Joe6pack,
Many thanks.
I’m going over to me mum’s for a nice glass of chateau cardboard. Backson to do the pics.
rnm1953
Numbers locked in
5 93 123 Please ?
kaffeeklatscher
done
11, 14 and 81please.
Any three numbers, please Joe6Pack.
Any three numbers please.
To fit with the travel slides
me and Meoldema and Grand Dragonette plest
any numbers
To celebrate my birthday, everyone gets….

Happy Friday all! I’d love to be in the raffle please, any numbers are fine.
Hope the Watt laptop is up and running again soon, it’s no fun when technology misbehaves (was offline for a few days this week myself).
Me too – any. Ta.
puffy

Have a wonderful birthday and birthday celebration.
puffytmd
A great big………….
Any three for me please.
Thanks!
A place I’ve always aspired to go to is this amazing and rather alien sandy place where people live in dugouts: Coober Pedy:
Any three for me please 🙂 Where is the first picture taken – Rome? Venice? ?
A good-looking lamington
fj- 100,80,65
l2 19,7,77
puffy (Happy Birthday) and clan 81,76.13/ 15,92,2
congite 1,20,25
Ctar1( name the HMS Ship from the numbers ) 57,85,26
Happy birthday puffy. Make sure you behave yourself . . . . oh, forget that!
Is there a resemblance?
Shadylady- 9,29,89
catalyst– 16,78,98
Thank you, Joe6Pack.
36, 63, 99..Thanks Joe….and one for the best Puffy!…song coming up!
Back from me mum’s, first lot of html done and emailed to the lucky Ducky.
Any three numbers please, Boss.
Anyone who wants to put their own pics up but doesn’t have my email address, just ask for it here and I will be in touch.
A spot of Iguazu
one for the birthday girl..
That was one of the classic ones that many take.
July 1998.
They say Brazil has the falls but Argentina has the views.
Mmm …
The first one was taken from Argentina. This one from a vantage point in Brazil
TLBD
This description of the RBBT from the Hitchhiker wiki suggests some similarity.
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“The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a wild animal from the planet of Traal, known for its never-ending hunger and its mind-boggling stupidity. “
This one ditto
Fiona,
The last two don’t reproduce.
Thanks, Joe!
Tony Burke on this week in The LNP’s Parliament:
Evening all; three of the best please, Joe.
Jaeger
61,71,81
Boom!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/the-moment-japans-mount-shindake-volcano-erupts-in-spectacular-fashion
The boys on Coolum beach after a storm wondering “what happened to the sand”?
BTW.
Those two high rise buildings you can see in the background are a testament to the corruption of Joh and Russ Hinze.
Thank you everyone…I am all misty eyed. I was such a young dragon once. I even remember changing channels with the knob on the tv set.
And don’t they look swish in their coats….they put the bitchop to shame when it comes to fashion sense.
My school photo.

And two shots from a helicopter
Now really, Puffy – you iz but a spring chicken…..I remember when a TV was only in the imagination of someone like Jules Verne !!
Puffy,
Instantly recognisable.
Happy Birthday in anticipation!