The view from my "office"

[RooFlyer]

Did you go into the Guggenheim? I loathed it.

 

[OZDUCK]

Did you go into the Guggenheim? I loathed it.

We will probably not bother to go inside. I think it is like Parliament House in Canberra -the building is more interesting than what it contains. Art created after the early 20th Century often leaves me cold. Impressionism & Pointillism are more my style. We flew from Perth to Canberra primarily to see the Impressionists from the Musée d'Orsay during the 2009 Masterpieces exhibition tour.

 

[kookaburra75]

Settling in at the CX lounge at Heathrow. Back to photos of airports... sigh

 

[Deleted member 29185]

The oldest transporter bridge in the world

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That would have to rate as one of the ugliest structures in the world, surely!

 

[OZDUCK]

That would have to rate as one of the ugliest structures in the world, surely!

I scoff at your words. It is a beautiful piece of late 19th Century engineering. First opened in 1893, the first transporter bridge to be built of metal (to clarify my initial post: it is the oldest operating transporter bridge in the world.) A World Heritage Listed reminder of the heroic days of civil engineering.

An elegant solution to allow a busy river-way to be crossed without the need for an expensive "drawbridge" etc. I admit that the suspended gondola itself is nothing special - it now has been designed to carry motor vehicles - but the rest of the bridge is beyond reproach,

 

[serfty]

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.

Same level as CX Wing First - that's at the South end. The QP is at the Northern end (IMHO you didn't miss much).

 

[OZDUCK]

Still catching up on my photos. The view from the balcony our hotel in Zaragoza - overlooking the Plaza Espana. As seems usual in Spain a lot more people on the streets at night.

 

[blackcat20]

Same level as CX Wing First - that's at the South end. The QP is at the Northern end (IMHO you didn't miss much).

Except the really good cheesecake...

 

[Flashback]

Except the really good cheesecake...

I tried the Haigh's White Lemon Truffle after doing the factory tour yesterday, it too tasted like a really good cheesecake....

 

[RooFlyer]

Same level as CX Wing First - that's at the South end. The QP is at the Northern end (IMHO you didn't miss much).

Yeah, that's what I thought. I was coming back from the Pier, so got 'lost' on the levels. When you go up the escalator to the right level on the north side there is a mass of hordings and you can't see where to go ( at least when in a hurry!).

I was pretty confident not to have missed much; I just wanted a sticky beak, as I haven't been there for many years - since before they enhanced the QF First lounge.

 

[VPS]

Did you go into the Guggenheim? I loathed it.

Interesting - do you like MONA? If someone gave me a free ticket to MONA I wouldn't waste my time going again. I'm really sorry I missed going to Bilbao last year.

 

[RooFlyer]

Went to MONA for the first time recently. Tas residents are free. Saw it, don't need to go again. Like the Guggenheim the are some interesting exhibits, but most just try to shock for shock's sake.

 

[Buzzard]

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

I used to have a 1L tin of it.
Gave it to a bloke in the Blue Mountains.
Spoke to him a few years later. He reported nothing had yet grown back

 

[Daver6]

Went to MONA for the first time recently. Tas residents are free. Saw it, don't need to go again. Like the Guggenheim the are some interesting exhibits, but most just try to shock for shock's sake.

You're doing MONA completely wrong if you didn't enjoy it. You go to the coughtail bar downstairs and have great coughtails. I believe there is some art in that bar

 

[straitman]

No photos unfortunately as cameras are banned.

At the Boeing factory yesterday and saw B787 #774 on the line and it will be out in a few days. This aircraft and about the third one after it have Qantas logos on the tail.

 

[amaroo]

The PuLi hotel, Shanghai

 

[boomy]

I was pretty confident not to have missed much; I just wanted a sticky beak, as I haven't been there for many years - since before they enhanced the QF First lounge.

IMO it’s the best J lounge in the QF network as they treat elites very well there but still both CX F lounges in HKG are obviously much better.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I scoff at your words. It is a beautiful piece of late 19th Century engineering. First opened in 1893, the first transporter bridge to be built of metal (to clarify my initial post: it is the oldest operating transporter bridge in the world.) A World Heritage Listed reminder of the heroic days of civil engineering.

An elegant solution...

Well I'd suggest we'll have to disagree. IMHO, that is an engineering monstrosity that needs dynamite! Bloody awful would be a monumental understatement!

 

[amaroo]

Ritz Carlton (Pudong)

 

[OZDUCK]

Well I'd suggest we'll have to disagree. IMHO, that is an engineering monstrosity that needs dynamite! Bloody awful would be a monumental understatement!

You vandal!