The view from my "office"

[Bindibuys]

Departing Vancouver today for cruise to Anchorage. Can finally unpack for more than a 2 night stay.

 

[RooFlyer]

Yesterday's full day office was another history excursion, Tasmanian midlands.

First stop was an old convict probation station.

Tick, done that - then off to morning tea!! People who have read my history ramblings before should know never to get between historian and a good morning tea. This was a good one. Just about everything sweet and savoury you could imagine (including fresh-baked scones, jam and FRESH local farm cream, vanilla slices, matchsticks ...), produced by the Woodsdale CWA





A shed made of flattened kerosene tins



A phaeton - very sporty



On to Kempton, where someone is doing up this old 1840s house, almost from scratch. People who take on such jobs are simply NUTS! Asked not to show anything inside, but it was glorious. A local guy is into reproducing colonial wallpapers. Here, they went through 180-odd years of wallpaper layers to find the original. Then this was reproduced using some very cunning techniques, custom re-printed and put up. I couldn't imagine how much that would have cost.






Wooden shed, surviving from the 1850s

 

[RooFlyer]

Onto another local place, where the wallpapers are also being reproduced and hung







At an old church, saved from the greed of the Anglican church (who are flogging off a huge number of cemeteries and churches around Tasmania) - their organ moved from a much larger Hobart church



Local footy!! Fantastic.




Final stop, Dysart House, formerly Leo Schofield's house, now home to the Old Kempton Distillery (whiskey and gin mainly). Afternoon tea AND whiskey tasting



Repairs never stop in these places



This is a room I could settle into:



Especially with drinks at hand ...

 

[Matt_01]

 

[Matt_01]

 

[Matt_01]

 

[Matt_01]

Heading to Alishan on the forest railway

 

[Matt_01]

 

[Pushka]

Departing Vancouver today for cruise to Anchorage. Can finally unpack for more than a 2 night stay.

The beauty of cruises. Enjoy Alaska. It’s wonderful.

 

[SuePa]

Split, Croatia, within the walls of Diocletian's 4th C palace.

 

[Matt_01]

 

[Matt_01]

Sun rise in Alishan.

 

[JohnM]

By luck, our visit to Vivid coincided last night with one of only six drone shows of the program.

Spectacular! Try to see it if you can.

 

[SYD]

By luck, our visit to Vivid coincided last night with one of only six drone shows of the program.

Spectacular! Try to see it if you can.

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How are the crowds? I’ve not tried to do the full Vivid thing for several years…

 

[Blackadder]

How are the crowds? I’ve not tried to do the full Vivid thing for several years…

Friday/Sat being the busiest times, mid week the quieter times but still a few people around.

 

[JohnM]

How are the crowds? I’ve not tried to do the full Vivid thing for several years…

Heavy, but not intolerable.

Interestingly, the drone show is on various nights with, IIRC, none on a Saturday, which seems strange. It’s definitely a standout highlight. I’ve been to Vivid several times over the last perhaps 15 years, and it trumps everything IMO.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Went and had a look at a famous building in Dubai, don’t think i could ever stay there

 

[Pushka]

Went and had a look at a famous building in Dubai, don’t think i could ever stay there

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Afternoon tea there is quite pleasant.

 

[RooFlyer]

six drone shows of the program.

This looks like a scene from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

[Flyfrequently]

(we are visiting grandma) Coming home on QF9 so that I can enjoy the F Lounge again! And son can enjoy it too, of course.

Good Dad, lucky son, enjoy!