The view from my "office"

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Beautiful photos of the Kelpies @Denali - guess this means I have to go back at night now - I can't believe I didn't even realise they were lit up at night and I was only staying about 10 minutes from there -DUH
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There are a number of car parks but you want the immediate first one on entry, it's free and doesn't lock at night. The other two (pay for parking) lock at certain times and depending on sunset, your car is trapped until 8am next day. 10pm (8pm in winter) sounds good but we were there until 10.20. It's about a 800mtr walk.

I also read that colours change every half hour but they actually change every minute.
 
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Exit immigration queue at Rome E gates, T3 (me to LHR). European passports through eGates, everyone else into a queue which is very long and looking very slow. Part along the queue passports are inspected and certain ones are directed to another long queue. I think this was the one for people who didn't need a visa to enter the EU. This line moved fast. The guy just had to stamp the passport. The other queue was glacial :mad:.

I got into the faster queue. Seemed a bit pointless.


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RooFlyer said:
Exit immigration queue at Rome E gates, T3 (me to LHR). European passports through eGates, everyone else into a queue which is very long and looking very slow. Part along the queue passports are inspected and certain ones are directed to another long queue. I think this was the one for people who didn't need a visa to enter the EU. This line moved fast. The guy just had to stamp the passport. The other queue was glacial :mad:.

I got into the faster queue. Seemed a bit pointless.


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Lucky you had a queue. Last time we flew out of FCO we were in an orderly queue until we passed through into the security screening area which was a mad scrum. People everywhere and not a queue to be seen, just a wall of people. :eek:
 
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Lucky you had a queue. Last time we flew out of FCO we were in an orderly queue until we passed through into the security screening area which was a mad scrum. People everywhere and not a queue to be seen, just a wall of people. :eek:
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When we went into Rome a few years ago, a couple of large planes had just landed, it was a real scrum with not much movement as there were only a few booths open, then in typical Italian fashion, they just opened all the gates and people just poured through with no checking of passports.
 
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When we went into Rome a few years ago, a couple of large planes had just landed, it was a real scrum with not much movement as there were only a few booths open, then in typical Italian fashion, they just opened all the gates and people just poured through with no checking of passports.
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First up, the Dead Sea. Amazing drive down the West Bank today ... stopping every few km to take essentially the same photo, over and over again! These are looking across to Jordan, of course.

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Then, I did something that I was so looking forward to. I went to Qasr el Yahud, called the 'Baptismal site' by the Israeli authorities - that is, Jesus' baptism. On the muddy and now narrow Jordan river, people ritually bathing in the river, with the Jordanese side doing much the same thing ...

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A few years ago I was on the Jordan side, seeing this :p :cool: :)

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