The view from my "office"

[RooFlyer]

Sorona Market office, Tel Aviv. Yummmmmmmmmmm ....









And the short walk to my hotel:



Somewhere up there:

 

[drron]

View from office balcony-

.

HI Mazlatan,Mexico.

 

[OATEK]

My office a year ago today.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

And this was mine this morning ... Bomana PNG

 

[RooFlyer]

Do I have to explain where ( Dome of the Rock - and amazingly uncrowded).

 

[love_the_life]

Do I have to explain where ( Dome of the Rock - and amazingly uncrowded).

View attachment 123982

Glad you did because I ain’t going there so have no idea what the photo was.

 

[love_the_life]

And this was mine this morning ... Bomana PNG

View attachment 123909

View attachment 123912
View attachment 123910
View attachment 123911

Can’t really Like but it looked a wonderful commemoration. So many headstones.

 

[Boca68]

Do I have to explain where ( Dome of the Rock - and amazingly uncrowded).

View attachment 123982

Tried to visit in 2008, but was closed due to "service issues" . Watching the news later and listening out the window , the service issue was riots and tear gas.... occasional gun fire

 

[RooFlyer]

OK, I found where everyone was. Church of the Holy Sepulchre ( and the same inside )

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Can’t really Like but it looked a wonderful commemoration. So many headstones.

LTL, in two words, it was! I believe the number of headstones is 3824. It is so sad to walk amongst them, looking at the ages. So tragic.

I actually took friend of mine, who is a photographer for a Highland publication and his comment to me was that he had lived in POM all his life and had never visited Bomana cemetery. He said he could not believe how beautiful it was and that he now intended to bring his family next year (wife and three late teenagers).

It was packed this morning, with a lot of PNG kids, who are by nature, very respectful. It was great to witness!

 

[love_the_life]

LTL, in two words, it was! I believe the number of headstones is 3824. It is so sad to walk amongst them, looking at the ages. So tragic.

I actually took friend of mine, who is a photographer for a Highland publication and his comment to me was that he had lived in POM all his life and had never visited Bomana cemetery. He said he could not believe how beautiful it was and that he now intended to bring his family next year (wife and three late teenagers).

It was packed this morning, with a lot of PNG kids, who are by nature, very respectful. It was great to witness!

My father was in PNG during the war and a number of his friends were killed in action. It is sad, but somehow good to see that they were not forgotten. A few years ago we called at Kanchanaburi in Thailand when on the Eastern Orient Express. On retiring the night before, this was left on the pillow with a card that said we might like to place it on one of the war graves that we would visit. On first look, it seemed to be macrame was was actually fresh flowers and was beautiful.



Like you swanning_it, we found the young ages of those who fell very sobering.

 

[Cossie]

Exactly, when I visited Kanchanaburi in the late seventies, walking around the graves I was deeply saddened by the number that were much younger than I was, at the time I was 23, so not that old myself.

Horrific, such a waste, also as per Sandakan just recently,very sobering, I have a friend in London whose mother told me that her brother died there trying to help someone else.

 

[drron]

I had an uncle who died on the Death Railway.Naturally I visited the cemetery at Kanchanaburi.Felt an urge to go straight to a grave near the middle.It was my uncle's grave.No explanation of why I had this sensation.

 

[boomy]

Feeling retro...

 

[QF WP]

Never going to rival @drron’s shots, but from my office going home yesterday



Sitting in traffic both times

 

[QF WP]

Nothing like turning up to the local RSL (Gaythorne) at 4:20am to help cook and serve 300 bacon & egg rolls and 300 sausages yesterday. They are our Clubs major sponsor and I’m a good parent volunteer.

Starting so early made it possible to march in the Parade and attend the Service. Massive numbers filled the park opposite the RSL and a number of the office holders expressed their appreciation at the turn out.

Those with eagle eyes will spot Mrs QF WP in one of the photos.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

My father was in PNG during the war and a number of his friends were killed in action. It is sad, but somehow good to see that they were not forgotten.

I came across a Papuan headstone. The young un-named man was 18 when he perished.

We often lament the loss of those exceptionally brave young men that perished for us, even though at the time, they may not have realised it.

I left my meagre token of a paper poppy, atop his headstone.

 

[Rugby]

View from the balcony of our Akaroa office this morning.

 

[Milboo]

Love Akaroa! My family were one of the first settlers there!

My office tonight - heading south out of BNE

 

[RooFlyer]

My office for a few days (UK National Archives, London):



or maybe more than a few days ...





Still, always a nice LHR flight path to contemplate outside ...