Category:Travel
There are lots of ‘Marlboroughs’ around the world. This one is in Wiltshire, England, where I went to school. RC & J Upton Leathercraft of Marlborough sits in an alleyway between 106 and 107 High Street. The Post Office refers to this as ‘Old Hughendon Yard’. Applebys, at the end of the yard serves tea, coffee, breakfast and lunch, though I’m more likely to take a few more steps for some fine real ales. If you stroll up to Applebys […]
Another photo from my recent trip to California. For the first part of the trip we stayed at The Inn at the Cove in Pismo Beach. On the day I took this photo we’d gone down to the Pismo Beach Pier to take photos during the morning twilight – that time when the sun reaches 18 degrees below the horizon and night starts to give way to day. As daybreak neared more surfers appeared near the pier riding such waves […]
I feel like I’m re-learning the ropes of blogging these days, hence the photo below. I took it a while back on board the Elissa, a Tall Ship from 1877, moored in Galveston harbor at the Texas Seaport Museum. If you’re into sailing you can take a Seamanship course on board and then actually sail the ship in open waters. Me, I think my days of climbing the rigging some 99 feet above the deck to set the mainsail are […]
A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]
What is Memorial Day? Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor all members of the US military that have died in service. Not hailing from the US, I have to say I was initially confused about the meaning of Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. In England, where I grew up, we recognized (celebrated is the wrong word) Armistice/Remembrance Day, long since relegated from November 11th to the closest Sunday. In the US, Memorial Day has been recognized since […]
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: SUNDAY, April 11, 1943 Still waiting for help, still praying, eyes bad, lost all our wgt. aching all over, could make it if we had water; just enough left to put our tongue to, have hope for help very soon, no rest, still same place. Ripslinger’s Diary: SUNDAY, April 11, 1943 Palm Sun. Still struggling to get out of dunes and find water. Toner’s […]