The view from my "office"

[Flashback]

Radio antennas was the conspiracy theory at the time!

CV19 transmitter?

 

[prozac]

Chicken on a stick, Canberra
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The Australian-American Memorial. Nearby is the Australian-Netherlands Memorial. Ten or so years ago I was invited to the Dutch Memorial Day ceremony on 4th May and afterwards a function at the Ambassadors residence. With the assistance of Australian military it was an impressive event.
Japan and Australia were at war from 3 September 1939. America was not remotely interested in becoming involved in this stoush until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941. The myth perpetuated for many years is that the US of A saved Australia from the Japanese. Look at the dates and you will notice it was in fact Holland that did this. In the period before Pearl Harbor it was the Dutch who were instrumental in keeping the Japanese from invading Australia. Australian troops were transported to PNG, and Borneo on Dutch merchant ships and then kept supplied. They bought munitions and equipment from UK to Australia. Their submarine fleet was based in Fremantle. All the while they did this back in Europe their families were suffering under naz_ occupation. If you are in the vicinity you might want to stop for a minute or two and give thanks.

 

[VPS]

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.

Alsace is amazing. You will love it. Feel free to ask any questions

 

[VPS]

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.

Screenshot taken to be added to list for next year. If things pan out will be housesitting in London for a month next April. Please don’t take off to Madagascar then

 

[jxv]

The Australian-American Memorial. Nearby is the Australian-Netherlands Memorial. Ten or so years ago I was invited to the Dutch Memorial Day ceremony on 4th May and afterwards a function at the Ambassadors residence. With the assistance of Australian military it was an impressive event.
Japan and Australia were at war from 3 September 1939. America was not remotely interested in becoming involved in this stoush until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941. The myth perpetuated for many years is that the US of A saved Australia from the Japanese. Look at the dates and you will notice it was in fact Holland that did this. In the period before Pearl Harbor it was the Dutch who were instrumental in keeping the Japanese from invading Australia. Australian troops were transported to PNG, and Borneo on Dutch merchant ships and then kept supplied. They bought munitions and equipment from UK to Australia. Their submarine fleet was based in Fremantle. All the while they did this back in Europe their families were suffering under naz_ occupation. If you are in the vicinity you might want to stop for a minute or two and give thanks.

History in a nutshell! I knew about the Dutch involvement in defending Australia from history lessons in school in Holland, but in the more than twenty years we lived in Canberra I never came across the Australian-Netherlands Memorial, even though we went to some functions at the embassy. I even met Queen Beatrix when she visited my workplace (I just could not stop myself from a bit of name-dropping).

 

[jxv]

Today a drive through the Beaujolais wine area and some wine tasting, so we thought.

We started at Vaux en Beaujolais where we seem to have been the only tourists this morning and the only customers at the only open cellar door, Cave de Clochemerle.

If you drink a lot of wine men may avail themselves of the use of this very ornate urinal at the lookout next to the Cave.


Street art in Vaux


The Cave we wanted to visit next was closed on Wednesdays, so we drove up Mont Brouilly for views over the area.


Next stop Beaujeu, the wine capital of the Beaujolais area. It was now past midday and everything in town was closed for lunch, including cellar doors and restaurants! Luckily we had packed a picnic!

Maison du Rhône in Beaujeu


Another interesting looking building.


We drove around a bit further, had coffee at a shopping centre and returned earlier than anticipated to our hotel where we hope to have a good meal tonight.

 

[OZDUCK]

From the Chiu Chunt Dint B&B in Jiufen. In the hills a little south of Keelung

Outside the front door


The view from our window





From my bed

 

[prozac]

The Australian-American Memorial. Nearby is the Australian-Netherlands Memorial. Ten or so years ago I was invited to the Dutch Memorial Day ceremony on 4th May and afterwards a function at the Ambassadors residence. With the assistance of Australian military it was an impressive event.
Japan and Australia were at war from 3 September 1939. America was not remotely interested in becoming involved in this stoush until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941. The myth perpetuated for many years is that the US of A saved Australia from the Japanese. Look at the dates and you will notice it was in fact Holland that did this. In the period before Pearl Harbor it was the Dutch who were instrumental in keeping the Japanese from invading Australia. Australian troops were transported to PNG, and Borneo on Dutch merchant ships and then kept supplied. They bought munitions and equipment from UK to Australia. Their submarine fleet was based in Fremantle. All the while they did this back in Europe their families were suffering under naz_ occupation. If you are in the vicinity you might want to stop for a minute or two and give thanks.

For anyone interested in a good factual read by renowned military historian Doug Hurst. It might make you reassess what you thought you knew of Australia's battle with Japan.
The Fourth Ally - The Dutch Forces in Australia during WWII by Doug Hurst

 

[Cossie]

Didn’t want to take motorways, so just put a town into the gps and of we went towards Oviedo, I had no idea Spain could be like this. Stopped in Ponferrada, then north through the mountains to Oviedo

 

[Cossie]

Into the hills.

 

[Steady]

Into the hills.

Beautiful photos

 

[OATEK]

Cronulla

 

[Daver6]

Dash 8 office at CBR

 

[Cossie]

Beautiful photos

Thank you, I have so many more but they need cutting down to fit here. A few from Llanes, a small fishing port. I was asked very quietly and politely not to take any more photos in the fish auction room.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Thank you, I have so many more but they need cutting down to fit here. A few from Llanes, a small fishing port. I was asked very quietly and politely not to take any more photos in the fish auction room.


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Are ypu planing to go to any of the nine "POOs" in Asturiuas? I recommend the cafe at Playa de Poo for lunch and calamari e vino blanco de Verdejo or a nice cold sidra!

Playa de Poo, Poo Beach in Llanes - Where is Asturias

Playa de Poo is spotless and has a very tranquil nature to it. It’s a very sheltered cove that makes it ideal for families and small kids to play to their

whereisasturias.com

And let's see if you can learn to pronounce the town of "Gijón"!

 

[Cossie]

Been past a few POOs this morning, I can now finally pronounce Llanes, definitely not Gijón.



I’m in love…. Escort Cosworth, mk1 Escort, mk2 Escort!

 

[MARTINE]

I was in the last row - who cares - boy did Melissa put on a brilliant show. She seemed genuinely surprised by the love of the audience (not surprising given the pain of the past few years)… what a star

 

[MARTINE]

Sunrise today and last night’s view of Zermatt.

Hey @Lina Lee and anyone who can assist me with forthcoming plan for day trip out of Montreaux in July.

We have a free day with no concert at the festival …so plan to take the 6am ish train from Montreux via Visp to Zermatt. Have a booking at Chez Vrony for midday. Anyone done the transfers below and comment about how easy /hard??

 

[LinaLee]

Hey @Lina Lee and anyone who can assist me with forthcoming plan for day trip out of Montreaux in July.

We have a free day with no concert at the festival …so plan to take the 6am ish train from Montreux via Visp to Zermatt. Have a booking at Chez Vrony for midday. Anyone done the transfers below and comment about how easy /hard??View attachment 385257

Sorry, did not do the Sunnegga Funicular. But the intercity trains arrive right at Zermatt centre. As far as I understand it's not really a big place to walk around (people carrying skis everywhere during winter to the various lifts = can't be that bad...) which again I can't really help as I travelled only on the Gornergrat up and down to Riffelberg as I stayed on mountain and only came down at the end of ski day to adjust boot fitting as I stupidly bought a new pair of boots that required adjustment after each ski day before rushing back up on the last train.

But if you can spare the time, the view from Matterhorn Glacier is amazing via a different funicular; The view also at the end of the Gornergrat is equally amazing. Fingers crossed on good weather days.

From google maps: Arrive at Zermatt and walk to Sunnegga Funicular:

 

[MARTINE]

Sorry, did not do the Sunnegga Funicular. But the intercity trains arrive right at Zermatt centre. As far as I understand it's not really a big place to walk around (people carrying skis everywhere during winter to the various lifts = can't be that bad...) which again I can't really help as I travelled only on the Gornergrat up and down to Riffelberg as I stayed on mountain and only came down at the end of ski day to adjust boot fitting as I stupidly bought a new pair of boots that required adjustment after each ski day before rushing back up on the last train.

But if you can spare the time, the view from Matterhorn Glacier is amazing via a different funicular; The view also at the end of the Gornergrat is equally amazing. Fingers crossed on good weather days.

From google maps: Arrive at Zermatt and walk to Sunnegga Funicular:

Thanks Lina — helpful