The view from my "office"

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The balcony has some deluxe fittings. It is budget hotel but clean inside.

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Do they read the gas meter when you leave?

 

[Cossie]

Lewis Bates/Anthony McLoughlin, Portugal. Too many photos to be sorted and scaled down!

 

[RB]

Railway view instead of carpark-Meriton Brisbane



Had a drink at one of the restaurants in the W Brisbane

 

[jxv]

Had dodgy internet access for a few days. I could access many sites, but it choked on AFF!

The view from our Saint Claude office in the Jura Mountains. Finally a decent car park and a railway station to top it off.


Now in our Annecy office in the foothills of the French Alps. Nice and sunny here.

 

[Cossie]

Galicia, Spain, view to Atlantic Ocean. Raining a lot in Portugal, however it stopped when we crossed into Spain.

 

[Bindibuys]

Hanoi, Vietnam

 

[Bindibuys]

Halong Bay over night stay.

 

[jxv]

On road-trips I always set the car’s navigation to avoid tolls and major highways. It then takes us on enjoyable back roads. It outdid itself this afternoon on the way to our office in the rural village of Blacé on the “Route du Vin Beaujolais”. From Villefranche, a major town, we were led along endless twisting and turning single lane roads with a few hair raising encounters with oncoming traffic to arrive at our destination to see a sign to a two lane road “Villefranche 7 km”!

Even though it is raining the view from our Blacé office balcony is idyllic.

 

[Cossie]

Ourense, northern Spain, rain is back!

 

[Flashback]

Ourense, northern Spain, rain is back!


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Yes, sorry about that ...... sending some more over from here too, enjoy.

 

[Cossie]

Between Montforte and Pontferrada. Love seeing the storks, and it is very lucky to see several nests together.
Pontferrada was once the most important gold mining place in the Roman Empire.

Ponferrada, Spain; home to a Templar castle

Ponferrada is a town on the Way of Saint James with an impressive Templar castle. Tourist guide.

www.spainthisway.com

 

[jxv]

Between Montforte and Pontferrada. Love seeing the storks, and it is very lucky to see several nests together.

We visited Naturoparc, previously known as the “Centre for the Reintroduction of Storks and Otters in Alsace” last week. They said up to 90% of young storks used to die on their first migration south, due to loss of habitat, electrocution, hunting, etc. The storks in the Centre are kept in captivity for three years, so they do not develop the migration instinct before they are let loose.

The big cage


On the ground


Living free

 

[Cossie]

We visited Naturoparc, previously known as the “Centre for the Reintroduction of Storks and Otters in Alsace” last week. They said up to 90% of young storks used to die on their first migration south, due to loss of habitat, electrocution, hunting, etc. The storks in the Centre are kept in captivity for three years, so they do not develop the migration instinct before they are let loose.

The big cage
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On the ground
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Living free
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Thanks for the information, I’ll put that in my memory bank, we do want to visit Alsace, it’s so sad to think of people hunting them.

 

[OZDUCK]

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Taipei

 

[TheRealTMA]

Ourense, northern Spain, rain is back!


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Nice town. The art gallery in Ourense is very interesting and the varous street statues including of Woody Allen!

 

[VPS]

Thanks to @TheRealTMA for alerting me to this place - the stained glass windows were stunning

St Martin's Church, Brampton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[VPS]

I didn't take a photo of the outside of the church but it was an unassuming little church from the outside

 

[Flashback]

Thanks to @TheRealTMA for alerting me to this place - the stained glass windows were stunning

St Martin's Church, Brampton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Remind me to take you for a spin to a church near us, it has an interesting 12th century mural painted on the back wall (Chaldon "Doom Painting" or "Purgatorial ladder" , probably the oldest in the UK. — Seeing the past) and also had (until it was stolen in 1970) the oldest church bell in Surrey. The painting is thought to be the oldest such thing in the UK.

 

[Daver6]

Chicken on a stick, Canberra

 

[SYD]

Chicken on a stick, Canberra
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Radio antennas was the conspiracy theory at the time!