The view from my "office"

[coriander]

Our office for today - aboard the RailJet from Zurich to Vienna in their business class seats.

 

[Milboo]

 

[Steady]

Today's lunch office

 

[coriander]

After RailJetting into Vienna, we started to explore the city:

 

[kermatu]

Merely Melbourne. Still a pretty great view.

 

[romney]

We were at a bit of a loose end yesterday in Istanbul and our hotel was a couple of hundred metres away from Miniatürk. Entry was less than $5 so we thought we'd take a quick look. Miniatürk houses nearly all of Turkey's major buildings and attractions, all in miniature. Some are not that miniature though and are taller than me. They even have a smaller version of Ataturk Airport, complete with planes moving around on the tarmac.

 

[kermatu]

Romney that last pic of the airport looked so real to me!

 

[VPS]

Ahh the joy of Ryanair - it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't try and sell you everything from cameras to perfume and lotto cards every 5 minutes

 

[VPS]

Sutton Bank - billed as the finest view in England and it is pretty spectacular

Rievaulx Abbey - I've never seen so many pheasants in one place

Lots of planes around

 

[JohnM]

Walking in the northern highlands of enchanting Ethiopia this morning. I was at 3100m.

 

[JohnM]

Outdoor restaurant high on a hill in Lalibela, Ethiopia, tonight.

A very Gaudi-like design.

 

[romney]

Romney that last pic of the airport looked so real to me!

Most of the models were really detailed and surprisningly well done. Hubby and I wavered between comments of "I want to go see that in real life" and "We could now say we've seen everything in Turkey, no need to go anywhere else."

 

[TheRealTMA]

Our first Parador. (Spain - León)

 

[Geegeela]

York, Yorkshire, UK. York Mister was conduction a service for the 77th anniversary of the Battle Of Britain, The Great West Window, a live statue in The Shambles.

 

[RooFlyer]

Our first Parador. (Spain - León)

Aren't they terrific? I ended up staying in 10 over two visits; the least interesting architecturally and olde-style wise was at Salamanca but it had a killer view over the 'old' and 'new' cathedrals.

Which gives me the happy excuse of showing this pic again ... why do you think they carved an astronaut into the decoration of a 500+ year old cathedral?

 

[drron]

Settled into my office for today.Accompanied by beer from Seven sheds brewery,Railton.
Seven Sheds | Brewery Meadery Hop Garden | Railton | Tasmania | Australia - Seven Sheds Brewery

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I can recommend a visit there.On weekends you may see someone from the Lark distillery there.They have had a relationship since the brewery started.I was lucky enough to be there a few years ago when they put some of their IPA into old Lark casks and then shipped it on the Empress back and forward across Bass Strait until it had done the original distance between England and India.I really liked it.So today a small bottle of their IPA and a bottle of their spiced dark ale-Willie Warmer.
And to those who have naughty thoughts Willie is the fellow who set up the brewery and still owns it today.

 

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View attachment 107646 Today's lunch office

Steady, ditch that horrid white plastic chair and you've won me! That's paradise ... perhaps retirement!

I sometimes amaze myself. I love the luxury of a really palatial hotel ... but for short periods only. For eternity, that place is me to a tee!

 

[Steady]

Steady, ditch that horrid white plastic chair and you've won me! That's paradise ... perhaps retirement!

I sometimes amaze myself. I love the luxury of a really palatial hotel ... but for short periods only. For eternity, that place is me to a tee!

I took my own chair, but didn't really need it - the bush table would seat 12 to 15 each side - so plenty of seating. The interior is lined with Tas oak on the walls and birds eye myrtle on the ceiling - it is a shack (with no power), but very well done, with a grassy clearing for tents and the Inglis river along side.

 

[JohnM]

LLI this morning waiting to board the ET bird to ADD.

 

[TheRealTMA]

León. A lazy Sunday.