The sun is behind us as it chases us in to Wellington Harbour. We are aiming for the gap. We were fortunate in Wellington because an old friend from my Conway days lives in Wellington and he had ‘volunteered’ to show us around. We’d both joined Conway on the same day, and had been in […]
Broken Hill’s airport is also the Royal Flying Doctor Service headquarters. Entrance to the HQ On entering we were invited to watch a short film about the service, which included real incidents where sick and injured people were picked up by a flying ‘hospital’ and flown to a major population centres. It is thanks to the Rev John Flynn […]
The sun is behind us as it chases us in to Wellington Harbour. We are aiming for the gap. We were fortunate in Wellington because an old friend from my Conway days lives in Wellington and he had ‘volunteered’ to show us around. We’d both joined Conway on the same day, and had been in […]
While in South Australia we visited Victor Harbor, which is about eighty kilometres south of Adelaide. Note the missing ‘u’ in Harbor due to a spelling error by an earlier Surveyor General (he was not an American). Oddly enough the current railway station at Victor Harbor is spelled Victor Harbour. The town has a history […]
We entered the Suez Canal at first light, and with camera in hand I started photographing our transit. The canal had been built by Ferdinand de Lesseps between 1859 and 1869, and was opened in 1869. The Egyptian / French plan for the opening was to allow the Imperial Yacht L’Aigle, with the French Empress, […]
London on a Spring day a few years ago. London Pride written by Noel Coward after a bombing raid in 1941. He was sitting in a damaged railway station and apparently he felt a wave of sentimental pride. Tulips Soldiers of the Queen On duty at Horse Guards Big Ben Tower Bridge ANZAC war memorial […]
London on a Spring day a few years ago. London Pride written by Noel Coward after a bombing raid in 1941. He was sitting in a damaged railway station and apparently he felt a wave of sentimental pride. Tulips Soldiers of the Queen On duty at Horse Guards Big Ben Tower Bridge ANZAC war memorial […]
We entered the Suez Canal at first light, and with camera in hand I started photographing our transit. The canal had been built by Ferdinand de Lesseps between 1859 and 1869, and was opened in 1869. The Egyptian / French plan for the opening was to allow the Imperial Yacht L’Aigle, with the French Empress, […]
We entered the Suez Canal at first light, and with camera in hand I started photographing our transit. The canal had been built by Ferdinand de Lesseps between 1859 and 1869, and was opened in 1869. The Egyptian / French plan for the opening was to allow the Imperial Yacht L’Aigle, with the French Empress, […]
The last time I visited the Baltic area was in 1965 when I was a cadet in the BI ship Dunera, which at the time was a school ship. This time Leningrad was no more, and St Petersburg had been resurrected. We considered flying with Garuda International, who had just gained a five star rating, […]
A quiet town with a very unusual historical link. We took a ship’s cruise, because I was unable to find a ‘walker’ guide. Another temple – Kehi Jingu Shrine, or as the locals call it “Kei-san,” I took the above photo, but as usual you couldn’t get a clear shot for the tourists :- o) This shot […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuol Svay Prey High School or is it . . . . Look closer and you might see barbed wire . . The above picture was taken in side the ‘school’ grounds. Cells for the prisoners. How small is each cell From an exercise pole to a pole of torture. There are […]
This blog is aimed mainly at Australian readers, so I apologise to my other readers. I am tired of the multi-coloured banner across the top of my blog, even though I’ve tried to have it removed, and investigated how to remove it myself, but I don’t have the computer knowledge. It is obviously a banner […]
Before we emigrated to Australia we lived in a small town (small for the UK) of about 11,000 people called Congleton, which is in Cheshire. During the time we lived there we took part in the celebrations for the town’s 700 th anniversary. I worked shifts for BOAC (later British Airways) at Manchester Airport, which […]
