2017: best year for some time
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in life
I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I’m not saying that recent years have not been good, they’ve all been good or even excellent, just that 2017 seems to have been exceptionally so. Anyway this is my 5th year end review and I’ll change the format.
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Nov 17: photo of the month
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I could do with posting a few more pieces about life in general because this is the third monthly photo in a row which doesn’t say much for the variety of my life! November seems to have been rather over…
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Oct 17: photo of the month
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Lots of candidates for this month with some epic (by my standards) pictures from my stay in Australia and some good ones too following my return. But this one gets the nod because I reckon it’s technically good (would benefit…
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Sep 17: photo of the month
This may not be the best photo of the month, there’s a bunch of good candidates from my visit to Hong Kong and the start of my vacation in Australia of course, but it’s of a type and it’s a…
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OZ17: five takeaways
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We’ve just come back from Australia where we’ve enjoyed a three week vacation. It was our second and I’ve been there several times on business as well. But as always when you visit a place you still see something new…
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On my radar, week 2
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in lifeI’m not sure how long I’ll keep this up because I reckon that some weeks it’ll be a little difficult to come up with the requisite seven significant experiences. But as my good friend Kyoji said in his recent birthday…
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Aug 17: photo of the month
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in photosIt’s got to be the rose! f5 at 1/100th with no post processing, taken with my Sony alpha 58 SLR. And just to demonstrate that there must be something in the soil here’s a photo of another rose in the same garden…
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On my radar
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in lifeEvery week the Observer gets someone to tell us what’s on his or her cultural radar. There seems to be a standard of 7 items but it’s not clear how topical they should be. However my blog, my rules so…
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Tour guides I have loved and not …
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in travelWe’ve only been taking package tours since about 1998 when we went with Travel Editions to Hidden Italy. We were based in Ravenna and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not…
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Five significant holidays
We’re off on holiday shortly and it’s going to be a big one. I’ve got myself a significant birthday so we’re off to Australia (again) via Hong Kong for the best part of 4 weeks with time in Melbourne and…
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