The view from my "office"

[RooFlyer]

Tasting room and the 'lab' where we will be blending our own Shiraz to take home.







TKWIA!!

 

[JohnM]

The highly-revered Buddhist Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, Sri Lanka, just on noon.

 

[OATEK]

The October long weekend in Sydney means the annual model railway exhibition, held this year at Sydney Olympic Park/ The (New) Showground.

 

[Matt_01]

Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentation Camp, Brzezinka - a very sad and poignant place to visit View attachment 190162

I have been to two Concentration Camps - Dachau when I was 22 and too young and stupid to fully take it all in. And then Buchenwald nearly 40 years later - when the true horrors really hit me hard. I will not go to one again.

I was posted to the BAOR in the early 90's and have almost the same photo as @kpc however it is one of those old fashion photos (prints). @OZDUCK I have also been be to Buchenwald, in the early to 90's it was very well persevered, largely untouched as the location is in the former east and was an experience I still remember 25 years on, also have a number of those old fashion photos (prints). The third area I spent time in was Bergen and the camp was long gone. It would be interesting to go back after 25 years to see what, if anything has changed.

 

[JohnM]

Helga’s Folly, an eccentric hotel and a must-see when in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

 

[Flashback]

Joshua Tree National Park, the first of many on this trip.....! Getting the annual parks pass ($80 USD) was very quick and easy, quite surprised really! Just pay at the gate as you go through, they give you a credit card sized card that you sign the back of and job done.




Cholla Cactus Garden

Skull Rock

 

[OZDUCK]

I was posted to the BAOR in the early 90's and have almost the same photo as @kpc however it is one of those old fashion photos (prints). @OZDUCK I have also been be to Buchenwald, in the early to 90's it was very well persevered, largely untouched as the location is in the former east and was an experience I still remember 25 years on, also have a number of those old fashion photos (prints). The third area I spent time in was Bergen and the camp was long gone. It would be interesting to go back after 25 years to see what, if anything has changed.

Buchenwald is still very well preserved, at least it was in in 2013. The displays are excellently curated and no attempt is made to hid or lessen what occurred there.

I think what made it even worse was that we had just spent a couple of great days in Weimar - which to quote was " a focal point of the German Enlightenment". The Bauhaus movement was also founded there. We had wandered past memorials to Goethe and Schiller and strolled through the gorgeous "Park on the Ilm" where Goethe's Gartenhaus still stands. Yet this obscene place was built right on its doorstep, just 8 km from the the centre of the city. There was plenty of testimony from the former inmates about how they had been marched through the centre of the city and been subject to abuse and worse by the locals who knew exactly what was happening there. It was just so different to the Germany and Germans I really had grown to like and it shook me up.



(Translates as "to each his own" or "to each what he deserves")

 

[Matt_01]

@OZDUCK it seems odd putting a simple “like” against your comment and I understand what you are saying, it is a place that is hard to put into words.

 

[ellen10]

Venice and Burano

 

[amaroo]

New York City

 

[VPS]

Are these supposed to be Canberra Raiders colours - they look disgusting - in the Canberra Qantas lounge

 

[TonyHancock]

Today’s office presents another stunning car park view. This time it is the Solihull Crowne Plaza in The West Midlands providing the view.

 

[Rugby]

Sydney Opera House

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Today’s office presents another stunning car park view. This time it is the Solihull Crowne Plaza in The West Midlands providing the view.

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Well at least there is blue sky AND trees !!

 

[Flashback]

Well at least there is blue sky AND trees !!

Mustn't be Solihull then!

 

[Cossie]

Sigh, don't do early mornings, however business in Devonport awaits, Hope it's smooth flight over, don't enjoy dash8 planes at the best of times.

 

[TomVexille]

A couple of different offices from last week.

First, Thomson Dam



And later in the week, the mouth of the Mersey River

 

[Flashback]

Sigh, don't do early mornings, however business in Devonport awaits, Hope it's smooth flight over, don't enjoy dash8 planes at the best of times.

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Leaving PSP tomorrow (was supposed to be today, but Mrs FB is too sick to travel), our friends have a 6.10am flight...... fortunately we will just wake up and go when we please as we can leave their key with the neighbour. Phew!

 

[Cossie]

Good flight over, both planes were full. It's not a public holiday in Tassie, anyway this is a view I really could quite easily live with, if they were in my garage!

 

[teammongo]

woah, an orginal RS200..
Very rare indeed..