The view from my "office"

[MARTINE]

Paris day 2
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Gorge

 

[tgh]

Sharp Photography Steady.. well done.. more...

 

[love_the_life]

Land of the Long White Cloud - not called that for nothing.

And Milford Sound

 

[tgh]

Are you enjoying the Muse ?

 

[prozac]

Land of the Long White Cloud - not called that for nothing

Oh, always thought it was Land of the Wrong White Crowd

 

[Pushka]

A cafe in France.

 

[OZDUCK]

A cafe in France.

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To deal with poor tippers?

 

[TheRealTMA]

To deal with poor tippers?

Unruly cruise people I would have thought!

 

[love_the_life]

Are you enjoying the Muse ?

Very much so. A few things have changed but still one of the best ships IMO. Staff are lovely.

 

[prozac]

A cafe in France.

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Just two fingers ...

 

[VPS]

Unruly cruise people I would have thought!

especially ones who have had their cruise disrupted badly and the company hasn't dealt with it well

 

[TheRealTMA]

especially ones who have had their cruise disrupted badly and the company hasn't dealt with it well

Maybe it’s a Peoples Cruise Liberation Front!

 

[latawiec]

A cafe in France.

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.... with a such security

 

[Port Power]

This is definitely not something you see every day! Not even on the Murray River in SA.



(I think the boat parade was washed out yesterday. Less windy today.)

 

[OZDUCK]

And as a small riposte to whose who complain endlessly about the political system in Australia. The former Stasi regional headquarters in Leipzig





Original mural



Except for the information boards the hallway has been retained as it was when the regime fell in1989.

 

[Steady]

Paris day 3

Wouldn’t mess with this lady

But this one is pretty armless

Apollo taking a selfie

 

[RooFlyer]

Chilean Pacific coast, Pichilemu and Bucalemu

 

[Port Power]

AA Flagship Lounge at MIA. Definitely not flash! The “Flagship First dining” is only for first class passengers to certain international destinations. There is a very bored maître d’ and only one customer in there! OWE should be allowed in just to make the cost worthwhile.

There was quite a queue to enter the shared Admirals Club and Flagship Lounge. The lady who checked my boarding pass told me to wait. Once I was called to the counter, there were profuse apologies that I wasn’t brought forward. Admirals Club must be a zoo! It is pretty full in here too. Quite literally a dog as well!



Definitely not QF First, but the buffet is better than the QF domestic and business class lounges. This lounge services both domestic and international. The atmosphere in QF is much better.





The Piper Heidsick champagne here is most definitely better though!



Edit:
I have to apologise to AA. Definitely better than QF international business class lounges. Beef Wellington is also on the menu. It is at another counter and looks delicious! The problem is that no-one knows it’s there! Nobody reads the menus at the end of the buffet where it is notated.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Two weeks of virtually no snow.
Worst start to a season “in living memory” according to one life-long local.

Some days we we skied on bamboo grass we were that desperate.

Then 48 hours before departure, just getting out of the apartment might be a challenge.



Edit: adding this pic showing just how much accumulated on the 4WD roof overnight.

The official reading was just 31cm



Niseko, Japan

 

[Pushka]

From execrable to perfect. Mt Titlus. 10000 feet.






Christmas trees?


Slope is black rated for difficuly.




Loved this drop down.