The view from my "office"

[kermatu]

Freycinet National Park, Tas.

 

[drron]

The new BA J seat is a really good bed with adequate storage.

 

[Port Power]

Mounted police are not something I ever expected to see in Fort Lauderdale!

I love the view from this “office”, even just when sitting on the couch.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Me doing the walk of shame to visit the drrons in the J lounge

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Did you make it back from the "dark side" ok @RooFlyer ?!

 

[Flyfrequently]

Trip into the "big smoke" for a function and BBC Earth Experience today, 32° in Melbourne - the calm before the predicted storm.

Novotel South Wharf foyer is the closest I have gotten to a Christmas Market .

 

[drron]

View from our IC Tokyo Bay office.

 

[RooFlyer]

Did you make it back from the "dark side" ok @RooFlyer ?!

Sure! When I went into the J lounge, the guy that checked my boarding pass didn’t bat an eyelid. They must get all the better clientele here. .

My office view from the HI Santiago airport. Hey, I like it - no street noise!

 

[OZDUCK]

Altdorf bei Nurnberg. A,very, small town about 30 minutes from Nuremberg at the end of the S3 S Bahn.

 

[prozac]

Sure! When I went into the J lounge, the guy that checked my boarding pass didn’t bat an eyelid. They must get all the better clientele here. .

My office view from the HI Santiago airport. Hey, I like it - no street noise!

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Nice cooling towers...first go at the Legionnaires'

 

[Flashback]

Altdorf bei Nurnberg. A,very, small town about 30 minutes from Nuremberg at the end of the S3 S Bahn.

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Reminds me a bit of Gengenbach.

 

[Steady]

Berlin (Jewish memorial and the wall memorial.)

 

[Steady]

A few more from Berlin, the first is what brought us to Berlin….

Main station

Square was mostly blocked off for construction or maintenance






The gate also had scaffolding covering the front

 

[OATEK]

A Peter Paul Rubens sculpture, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

 

[love_the_life]

A bit hard to see but the water was teeming with Dusky Dolphins - many leaping and somersaulting and generally just having fun. Kaikoura NZ.

 

[vmile]

A Peter Paul Rubens sculpture, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
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well, actually, it is in the Rubens/Women exhibition at Dulwich, but Rubens was a painter, not a sculptor.
It is Aphrodite or 'Crouching Venus' Second century AD Roman on loan from the Kings Collection.

Roman Empire - Aphrodite or Crouching Venus

This marble statue of Aphrodite, also known as the Crouching Venus, dates from the Antonine period (2nd century AD) and is a Roman version of a Hellenistic original from 200 BC. Carved in marble, she is depicted in a nude crouching pose, with her hair gathered loosely on her head and partially...

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It's good to be the King.

It is an excellent exhibition in a beautiful small gallery, with a permanent collection that has to be seen to be believed.
Fun fact, they have located Aphrodite at the center of the gallery, behind her is the Mausoleum of the gallery founders.

 

[OZDUCK]

We are now in Leipzig - after the cancellation of the first two ICE trains we booked. Amazingly after our previous experiences with D Bahn this train was uncrowded and arrived dead on time. The trip did take more than an hour longer than the first train we had booked was scheduled to take. This was due to major track work on some of the high speed lines. We ended up doing a big half circle and spent much of the trip travelling slower than Perth suburban rail at around 90 km/hour.

The Christmas Market here has a very different feel to Nuremberg and seems more 'local'. I didn't hear anyone else speaking English on the Market. The foods on sale were different and prices were all lower.






A cake we bought at the market that we have never had before - Kartoffle (potato)Kuchen

 

[Steady]

Prague has so many beautiful old streets/buildings

 

[Steady]

Prague also has Christmas markets, not sure why - but I had in my mind they would be the best, still an enjoyable place to finish off my Christmas market journey nonetheless.

 

[Flashback]

We are now in Leipzig - after the cancellation of the first two ICE trains we booked. Amazingly after our previous experiences with D Bahn this train was uncrowded and arrived dead on time. The trip did take more than an hour longer than the first train we had booked was scheduled to take. This was due to major track work on some of the high speed lines. We ended up doing a big half circle and spent much of the trip travelling slower than Perth suburban rail at around 90 km/hour.

The Christmas Market here has a very different feel to Nuremberg and seems more 'local'. I didn't hear anyone else speaking English on the Market. The foods on sale were different and prices were all lower.

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A cake we bought at the market that we have never had before - Kartoffle (potato)Kuchen

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Define lower prices? The reason I ask, is because we went to a lot of small town ones on this trip and then when back in Stuttgart before we flew home, while the prices were higher, they weren't that much higher!

 

[kermatu]

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