The view from my "office"

Denali · Apr 21, 2018

VPS said:
Beautiful photos of the Kelpies @Denali - guess this means I have to go back at night now - I can't believe I didn't even realise they were lit up at night and I was only staying about 10 minutes from there -DUH

There are a number of car parks but you want the immediate first one on entry, it's free and doesn't lock at night. The other two (pay for parking) lock at certain times and depending on sunset, your car is trapped until 8am next day. 10pm (8pm in winter) sounds good but we were there until 10.20. It's about a 800mtr walk.

I also read that colours change every half hour but they actually change every minute.

RooFlyer · Apr 21, 2018

Exit immigration queue at Rome E gates, T3 (me to LHR). European passports through eGates, everyone else into a queue which is very long and looking very slow. Part along the queue passports are inspected and certain ones are directed to another long queue. I think this was the one for people who didn't need a visa to enter the EU. This line moved fast. The guy just had to stamp the passport. The other queue was glacial

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I got into the faster queue. Seemed a bit pointless.

Denali · Apr 22, 2018

Just checked into our hotel, got upgraded to a suite

View from our bathroom

OATEK · Apr 22, 2018

QF93 cruising over SYD this morning.

love_the_life · Apr 22, 2018

RooFlyer said:
Exit immigration queue at Rome E gates, T3 (me to LHR). European passports through eGates, everyone else into a queue which is very long and looking very slow. Part along the queue passports are inspected and certain ones are directed to another long queue. I think this was the one for people who didn't need a visa to enter the EU. This line moved fast. The guy just had to stamp the passport. The other queue was glacial .

I got into the faster queue. Seemed a bit pointless.

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Lucky you had a queue. Last time we flew out of FCO we were in an orderly queue until we passed through into the security screening area which was a mad scrum. People everywhere and not a queue to be seen, just a wall of people.

Cossie · Apr 22, 2018

love_the_life said:
Lucky you had a queue. Last time we flew out of FCO we were in an orderly queue until we passed through into the security screening area which was a mad scrum. People everywhere and not a queue to be seen, just a wall of people.

When we went into Rome a few years ago, a couple of large planes had just landed, it was a real scrum with not much movement as there were only a few booths open, then in typical Italian fashion, they just opened all the gates and people just poured through with no checking of passports.

Deleted member 29185 · Apr 22, 2018

Cossie said:
When we went into Rome a few years ago, a couple of large planes had just landed, it was a real scrum with not much movement as there were only a few booths open, then in typical Italian fashion, they just opened all the gates and people just poured through with no checking of passports.

Say what?

RooFlyer · Apr 23, 2018

View from CP Tel Aviv office.

RooFlyer · Apr 23, 2018

Acre and looking towards Haifa.

My office tonight, the Akko Hotel, Acre, built into the city wall!

RooFlyer · Apr 23, 2018

Dinner office view; Acre, Israel.

RooFlyer · Apr 23, 2018

Isn't anyone else at the office?

Sea of Galilee

Jordan River valley, looking towards Jordan:

Mysterious lady from the past:

love_the_life · Apr 23, 2018

RooFlyer said:
Isn't anyone else at the office?

Sea of Galilee

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Jordan River valley, looking towards Jordan:

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Mysterious lady from the past:

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Nope, we’re too busy watching your office.

Daver6 · Apr 23, 2018

love_the_life said:
Nope, we’re too busy watching your office.

It's a full time job!

RooFlyer · Apr 24, 2018

Well, OK, if no-one else is showing up for work ...

First up, the Dead Sea. Amazing drive down the West Bank today ... stopping every few km to take essentially the same photo, over and over again! These are looking across to Jordan, of course.

Then, I did something that I was so looking forward to. I went to Qasr el Yahud, called the 'Baptismal site' by the Israeli authorities - that is, Jesus' baptism. On the muddy and now narrow Jordan river, people ritually bathing in the river, with the Jordanese side doing much the same thing ...