The view from my "office"

[JohnM]

While moving some vehicles, we helped this cute little fella off the road. Stimson Python, if I’m not mistaken.

 

[JohnM]

Yesterday on the way back to Coolgardie and the burn home to PERadise. Some wildflowers at their peak and plants thriving on the rocks with the decent rains in the west this winter.

Note how the dirt road has dried very nicely in 1-2 days. ESC only came on a few times on some gravelly bends... . Gotta check that those things really work... .

 

[RooFlyer]

That is 98% of hotel rooms in HK - we did stay in HK in 1984 in the Regent - right on the water, and Shirley Bassey was waiting for us to check out so she could have our room !!!

And when she saw drron, she exclaimed:

Hey! Big spender ....

 

[RooFlyer]

Yesterday on the way back to Coolgardie and the burn home to PERadise. Some wildflowers at their peak and plants thriving on the rocks with the decent rains in the west this winter.

Nothing that a bit of 2,4,5 T won't fix to get the place suitable for prospecting again.

 

[OZDUCK]

Love that place. I swam from right (where the rocky point is "Pico Del Loro) to left (where the sand finishes and the marina starts "Alderdi Eder Parkea") across that bay a few years ago. About 1.2 km of beautiful, warm, clear water.

Are the slide pontoons still there? Can't see them in the pic.

I don't remember seeing any and we walked, not swam, to both points of the bay. The Spanish seem to have sets dates for closing certain facilities regardless of the weather or crowds. For example the Fun-fair on the hill, from where I took the photo, was all closed up for winter despite it being beautiful weather with plenty of tourists. I bet they said something like today is 15 September, all must go.

 

[Flashback]

Far too early to be up, as you can see by the moon in the picture... Hobart

 

[boomy]

This vista is on the QF home page right now. I reckon your untouched pic is better!

Missed the QF pic but this town is so magical, makes even a basic iPhone photo look like a postcard.

 

[Major]

My orchid house at the moment

 

[JohnM]

Nothing that a bit of 2,4,5 T won't fix to get the place suitable for prospecting again.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Unfortunately we are going to have to return to the airport to offload a passenger who has become disruptive.”

 

[boomy]

Palace galore in Vienna.

 

[love_the_life]

My orchid house at the moment

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Gorgeous flowers Major.

 

[amaroo]

@amaroo, did you go inside and listen to the Old Jazz band? ..... that is, if they were still playing!

No, it wasn't the best time to pay a visit, and we were short for time.

 

[OATEK]

Palace galore in Vienna.

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Love the Belvedere!

 

[RooFlyer]

Although not a champagne drinker ( especially these days) I had to have a small quick reviver after finding out my lovely flat bed 'suite' 4a on new style QF A330 has been subbed for a bloody angle flat ( i think, according to the not so reliable seat guru) old style job. I didn't realise Qantas still had angled flats

 

[Milboo]

Palace galore in Vienna.
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Gorgeous. As sick as I was I loved Vienna when I was there in November and can’t wait to return. It was grandeur on steroi_s! Highly recommend the Crown Jewels Museum too.

 

[woodyren]

Modern Shenyang



and one of the more colourful & clean local small office views.

 

[RooFlyer]

So I've been in this office at HKG for a few hours now, updating my TR and sparing with me old mate juddles.





One of the few offices I can truly just hang around in and relax. Although I discovered to my surprise that they don't have decaf coffee or hot chocolate!

Menu in the dining room



Crab and avocado galette and ( brought out at the same time ) butter chicken. Small portions, aren't they?

 

[kermatu]

they don't have decaf coffee...

For good reason.
They do make good iced coffees though in those lounges.
I've had my starters served together, but have had the luxury of my main arriving at least 2 minutes after the starter(s).

 

[RooFlyer]

Can anyone tell me when the heck the QP is at HKG? Just a bunch of hordings where I thought it was.

Edit. Boarding. Never found it.

 

[OZDUCK]

(If my laptop didn't already have a cracked screen I would have done it deliberately by now - need a new one!)

Bilbao

The Guggenheim

For those lovers of Michael Portillo's travels. The oldest transporter bridge in the world - as featured in his Spanish Series. It costs about 80 Euro cents to cross with the local travel card. You can take a lift up the tower and walk across the superstructure. Would be great photos but my fear of heights turned me from a duck to a chicken.