The view from my "office"

[OATEK]

Cadgwith Cove, Cornwall

 

[Major]

Looks like a Doc Martin sort of place

 

[OATEK]

Geographically well apart, but aesthetically very similar.

 

[OZDUCK]

My BIL & SIL did a cruise along the St Lawrence and visited PEI. Loved it. They told us about a wartime explosion in Halifax where a ship loaded with ammunition destined for Allied the war effort blew up with an enormous death toll. They found the story very sad but tremendously interesting.

The explosion was in 1917. Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia

There is a very good display about it in the local Maritime Museum in Halifax. That museum also has a very good display on the Titanic sinking - including one of the infamous deckchairs used as a punchline for 100 years now.

 

[OZDUCK]

Bergen

We have just had 3 days without rain during the day - it did still rain at night. This is pretty unusual here and the rain has started again this evening.

 

[OATEK]

Conan Doyle stayed here, and set The Adventure of the Devil's Foot here as well.

Poldhu Cove

 

[drron]

Shopping on the Rue Champlain this morning I found the Quebecois to be a little rude.
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But then a good cat is a-
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[drron]

The view on the Rue de Cul-de-sac,Quebec city.
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[drron]

The view from the Promenade des Gouverneurs,Quebec City.
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[RooFlyer]

Shopping on the Rue Champlain this morning I found the Quebecois to be a little rude.

Having lived in Quebec for a year, I can assure them the feeling is entirely mutual!!
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View from office at Iskanderkal Lake, in the Tajikistan mountains. Visited by Alexander the Great in 300-something BC and RooFlyer ( who happens to share a name with AtG) in 2019. The present name is a corruption of 'Alexander'.

The lake is the spitting image of Lake Louise, but lacks a Chateau .

 

[OATEK]

Porthleven, Cornwall

 

[OATEK]

St Michael's Mount, Mounts Bay by Marazion, Cornwall

 

[RooFlyer]

Earlier office crossing the ( lesser) Tajik mountains. No justification of the actual experience in these pics. Panoramas to follow in TR.



Our guide and drivers (4 vans) got us up and down safely. Tajik driving on winding mountainous roads is ... interesting.. Change of underwear may be required.



This office view is from the notorious Iran tunnel' at the top of the drive across the mountains. Built by the Iranians, 5 km, no ventilation, no lighting, and I wonder about ground support. But overtaking by trucks is OK.

 

[OZDUCK]

From the horrid to the sublime

First the horrid

Looking down into the gun well at the Fjell Fortress to the west of Bergen- the biggest fortress built in Norway by the Germans in WW2. The gun well once held a Triple 11" turret from the Battlecruiser 'Gneisenau' - removed after she was damaged beyond repair.



A turret that once formed part of the ground defences for the fortress



Now the sublime

The final home and, set in the cliff overlooking the beautiful surrounding waters, the resting place of Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina at Troldhaugen - in the suburbs of Bergen





The gardens are a suitable place for trolls to reside

 

[drron]

The view from our office this morning.
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Quebec City.

 

[drron]

The view from our mobile office on various Quebec roads today.
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They lie.Didn't see a single moose.

 

[drron]

And the beautiful view from tonight's office-Delta Hotel Fredericton,NB.
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[JohnM]

Khujand, Tajikistan, last night.

Beautiful evening for a drink and dinner on the terrace of the Parliament Hotel. Rooy was still washing his jocks in industrial-grade detergent... (Pffft - road excitement is all in a normal day in sensational Tajikistan.)

 

[coriander]

"Morning" by Greig

Still.The.Best.(Ansett).Airline.Advert.Ever

 

[Cossie]

Never seen this before, just now, taken through kitchen window, hence a bit of glare. Canberra suburbs.