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).
THE PUB 
kaffeeklatscher
$20 bucks for you to bet on during the rugby world cup.
Fiona,
He is a nice bloke to talk to. He listens.
Kaffeeklatscher,
Superb photography!!!
I can see why you and Kodak were a natural fit. BTW, I was on speaking terms with Kodak’s last CEO here in Australia – his daughter and DD were classmates.
I understand the Kiwis are building 15 Jonah Lomus.
Fiona,
kk made the croc do it again and again until they both got it right.
There was a bit of snappiness around come takes nine and ten.
At FIFA, Oz (unlike most of Asia) is voting against the beast. The Kiwis (unlike most of Oceania) are also giving him the thumbs down.
I reckon those voting for Bugblatter are doing so just so THEIR “peccadillos” won’t come to light. Sooner or later, amigos, you shall come to judgement.
Could any lurking petrolhead tell me something, please?
In the last seven years or so, how many domestic passenger vehicles have been built that don’t have a setting for headlights that enables them to switch on whenever the ambient light is sufficiently low?
Both my previous (2007) and current (2011) Fords had/have that function, and it is my default setting. (OH, btw, always turns it off whenever he’s driving my vehicle – to my intense annoyance.)
The reason I ask is that in the past fortnight I’ve been on the road well after dark on at least ten occasions. Each time, I’ve encountered one passenger vehicle coming the other way where the headlights have not been on.
One of my scarier driving experiences was last year, when I was being tailgated by a large black 4WD (which had probably never been offroad in its life) without lights for nearly 3 km on my way home from a late lecture at Melbourne uni. Eventually I decided peace of mind was preferable, so I ducked off on the next side street.
Previous photo was from Hawai`i (the Big Island).
Kaumana Cave is a skylight in a lava tube near Hilo from the 1881 Mauna Loa eruption. There are stairs to get in/out, but otherwise it’s explore at your own risk; a bright torch/headlamp is highly recommended. (Thurston Lava Tube near Kilauea is more accessible, but not as pleasing.)
This photo shows roots penetrating the lava tube from above, and patches of “silver” and “gold” mineral deposits. They look fake (spray paint?), but are real white/yellow minerals with trapped water droplets making them glisten.
Automatic headlights? Luxury…
No headlights at night are pretty rare; one blown headlight seems to be an every night occurrence.
Double demerit points for “only one working headlight, but cranked to high beam to compensate” I say!
Photographs can capture beauty, be it permanent or transitory.
You need the right artist, the right equipment and the right moment.
I’m in two minds about “working” on photos once they are out of the camera. I guess I vote for doing something if your mind says the equipment got it slightly wrong (not you, of course).
Photoshopping for a different effect is an entirely different art.
There was an episode Picture of Innocence of Midsomer Murders where a bloke in charge of a photo exhibition totally excluded photos not taken with film. He had a point.
is this sort of stuff becoming ho-hum?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/may/29/fifa-to-vote-on-sepp-blatter-presidential-bid-amid-corruption-scandal-live
Jaeger,
If anything, my experience over the past few months in particular is that no headlights at all is happening more often than only one.
Ducky,
More likely it’s who gives a stuff if these corrupt individuals go to hell in a handbasket.
Our right low-beam globe blew in Evans Head Wednesday night.
Now, I like to drive with the lights on on the highway so it has been 1000 km in the last two days with the parkers on.
Fixed by the service people within an hour of getting home this arvo.
Fiona,
I certainly don’t.
Blatter will not give up during hanging and drawing. Maybe not even after quartering.
Ducky,
Surely, surely he’d give up after drawing?
Meantersay, how would he still be able to sustain life at that point?
Fiona
Automatic headlights are not up to scratch yet.There is nothing like the human eye to decide weather it is dark enough or not.. we have turned that function off in the Oh,s German car.
“Meantersay, how would he still be able to sustain life at that point?”
I understand a certain amount of expertise with the entrails was required to prolong life.
Seeing it’s Friday night fun time, the first person who correctly identifies what is strange about this picture wins a quick pick entry in tomorrow night’s Gold Lotto!
And here’s a picture of Joe 6 Pack’s back yard! You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your neighbours! 😉
Many thanks Fiona. Sorry I forgot to check back on the e-mails.
What is a turntable doing on a table when they have what looks like a system on the wall?
scorps,
joe6pack is starting a golf course?
Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) and chick, near Princeville, Kaua`i (Hawai`i):
Joe6pack,
I agree – mostly – with what you say. However, having people driving about without any lights when it is well and truly dark isn’t good for road safety. In my one woman survey, it seems to be happening more and more. The question should be: what is the “low” light level when the headlights should come on? I’d say, definitely when it’s nighttime – even when one is driving in a reasonably well-lit area.
Which is, essentially, my point. I’ve been guilty of driving out of a highly illuminated car park onto a less well-lit main thoroughfare, only to realise my headlights weren’t on when some oncoming motorist was kind enough to let me know. The advice was alwas greatly appreciated.
If only their eyeballs were pointed at the street lights, not their iThingy.
I might have a problem or two with what look like lights pointing inwards.
There may be something wrong with the perspective but that window looks awfully close to the floor.
The only thing that looks natural is the pooch on the chair.
This little black duck,
Well he did say a while back that Clive Palmer was a neighbour of his at the back, so Mrs Scorpio & I thought we would go and check it out!
The Picture is just proof that we were there although we didn’t see Joe 6 Pack at the time! 😉
I was guilty of not turning on my headlights, once, when the moonlight was ever so bright.
Scorps: “lifestlye” is a typo, but unfortunately not strange these days.
Lotto Ticket is safe so far!
I think the dog has been photoshopped in, and what is up with its tongue?
Jaeger is the winner.
I must have passed that sigh a hundred times and never noticed it until one day, I had a retired school teacher in the car with me & he pointed it out.
Well done. I’ll get Fiona to, (sorry, ask her if she would kindly) post the ticket on the blog tomorrow so there can be no repeat of the current kerfuffle regarding a winning ticket.
Hey, though, if it wins, I wouldn’t mind if we go halves! I sure could use the money! 😉
Scorps – the kid on the left has no feet?
Alternatively, the advert was successful?
Speaking of 5 meter crocs . Menacing or what ? Sadly moi only had a D80 at the time,
The slope of the floor, the bricks and the blinds and wood work are not aligned.
Remind me if I am ever in need of a Lawyer, not to engage this character. Maybe Fiona might be a safer choice! 😉
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/05/29/lawyer-says-monis-showed-no-signs-of-violence.html
Scorps,
Please be explicit! What – to your mind – was the strangeness?
Not that I will adjudicate your decision, I just want to know what it was.
As for posting the possibly winning ticket, will do, provided you get it to me before 10:00am tomorrow.
Me mum has nails to be manicured, then we have Don Giovannis to seduce us.
Yay!
OH has a bucket hat that I only recently noticed was embroidered with “[place], Austalia.” (From memory; remove a random letter otherwise.)
Fiona,
You have e-mail from the moon.
Sorry folks.
It was Lifestlye……….Jaeger picked it.
Blimey! There goes my sleep in tomorrow! 😉
“Only a D80”?!
What on earth do you have now?
http://www.afr.com/opinion/the-abbott-governments-terrorism-bingo-playing-chicken-on-national-security-20150528-ghbduk
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-rolled-by-his-own-ministers-over-stripping-terrorists-of-citizenship-20150529-ghcuxf.html
http://www.news.com.au/national/no-security-in-staying-silent/story-e6frfkp9-1227375147139
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-29/younger-middle-income-earners-set-to-lose-most-from-pension-cha/6506908
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-29/nbn-contractor-sheds-100-workers-on-tasmanian-nbn-rollout/6507310
Jaeger
I bet Jaeger was a good speller back in the school days.
Well picked. You neatly side-stepped some very smart Pubsters picking it up so quickly!
Hermit Crabs, Cocos (Keeling) Is.:
Tui, near Whangarei, NZ:
Leroy,
Every single article you posted just now shows that the NE lies.
I wish someone in the msm would say it outright. Laura gets close but no cigar.
Speaking of which, as I said some time ago “I dined with Laura” (we were in an eating establishment contemporaneously). She is tall, thin, good-looking and moves like a well-trained filly.
jaeger,
Just wow on the quality of that photograph.
That bird wasn’t sitting still so you must have judged the speed of the film and the exposure time precisely. Were you using a lot of auto-focus?
“You can shut the gate on this one, Maxie… it’s the duck’s guts!”