The view from my "office"

[Cossie]

Las Medulas, Spain, was the largest gold mine in Roman times.

This from Las Médulas - Wikipedia

“The massive scale of mining at Las Médulas and other Roman sites had considerable environmental impact. Ice core data taken from Greenland suggest that mineral air pollution peaked during the Roman period in Spain. Levels of atmospheric lead from this period were not reached again until the Industrial Revolution some 1,700 years later.“

 

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On the way to Tbilisi from Doha
I assume it’s Iran with the pink lake
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Are you following me?

I'll be back in TBS this afternoon, although hopefully only for 4 hours - getting the overnight train to EVN tonight all going well.

 

[henleybeach]

Are you following me?

I'll be back in TBS this afternoon, although hopefully only for 4 hours - getting the overnight train to EVN tonight all going well.

Haha I noticed that. We are here for 5 nights!
If you were staying, a catch up in one of
The wine bars would have been a certainty.
We have the culinary backstreets food tour today

 

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Haha I noticed that. We are here for 5 nights!
If you were staying, a catch up in one of
The wine bars would have been a certainty.
We have the culinary backstreets food tour today

Looks like we may just miss each other then, I'll be taking the 337 bus from the airport to the end of the line (Central Railway Station), unless you have any plans to be out near the railway station around 6.30pm this evening Assuming my plan works well, I'll have an hour or two to kill in the general vicinity prior to boarding.

I'm getting the overnight train back to Tbilisi, arriving Monday AM but looks like you'll have left by then.

 

[RooFlyer]

Haha I noticed that. We are here for 5 nights!

Lucky duck. You going east to say Sighnaghi for (yet more) wine? You'll be into the orange, no doubt.

 

[henleybeach]

Lucky duck. You going east to say Sighnaghi for (yet more) wine? You'll be into the orange, no doubt.

Yep heading out there on Thursday. Tried an orange wine last night, wasn’t my favourite.
It was a nice little bar called 8000 vintages

 

[jxv]

The last few days were spent catching up with friends in Rotterdam. Today we visited Schiedam, an old town just West of Rotterdam. Not a tourist in sight we thought till an older couple asked us for the nearest supermarket. It worked out that they were also visitors from Australia, from Geelong, just like us!

At least one windmill in every photo!

 

[Cossie]

Thought Spain was flat! Well I guess some is. Found some good roads, lots of slate mining.
South of Las Medulas.

 

[Cossie]

Some info re previous post, and a fixer upperer!

 

[prozac]

The last few days were spent catching up with friends in Rotterdam. Today we visited Schiedam, an old town just West of Rotterdam. Not a tourist in sight we thought till an older couple asked us for the nearest supermarket. It worked out that they were also visitors from Australia, from Geelong, just like us!

At least one windmill in every photo!
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Anyone notice how clean the streets are?
Beautiful luxemotor (a particular style of barge) in photo #1.

 

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My office for the past 10 or so hours. Passport control leaving Georgia was painless enough and then entering Armenia they had some funky high tech portable machines. I was expecting a grilling having been in Azerbaijan but all good.

 

[Muppet501st]

Current view and last nights QF15.
40 mins from the time we deboarded to sitting down in the Alaska Lounge, that was clearing immigration and walking over from TBIT to T6

 

[OZDUCK]

Kaohsiung Taiwan
Looks much better at night.It is very smoggy this morning.

 

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Kaohsiung Taiwan
Looks much better at night.It is very smoggy this morning.

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Great city, lots to explore. Check out the night food markets if you have time.

 

[prozac]

Kaohsiung Taiwan
Looks much better at night.It is very smoggy this morning.

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I remember in the 70s that scene would have been wall to wall oil tankers as far as you could see backed into the shore for breaking.

 

[Cossie]

Anyone notice how clean the streets are?
Beautiful luxemotor (a particular style of barge) in photo #1.

we have also been very surprised as to how clean most of the areas have been over the last couple of weeks, here in northern Spain.

 

[SYD]

we have also been very surprised as to how clean most of the areas have been over the last couple of weeks, here in northern Spain.

Last year, driving/train from Lisbon north to Spain and across the top through the Asturias, we were surprised how 3rd world'ish bits of Portugal were but you cross the boarder into a whole new world. Most of Spain is like that. I'm literally planning southern Spain (AGP to BCN) for the next adventure in the New Year.

 

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My morning office in Yerevan, was interesting to note on my walk from the train station to the city there was easily more Police compared to non-Police around. Must be one of the country's largest employers......

 

[prozac]

My morning office in Yerevan, was interesting to note on my walk from the train station to the city there was easily more Police compared to non-Police around. Must be one of the country's largest employers......
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Nutella is popular.

 

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Nutella is popular.

You'd just about need a whole jar to cover that piece of bread!