Capture: Travels Without a Map
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ChrisW, in reply to
...are you sure we're not in Guatemala now, Dr...?
I Maya had such a thought myself at the time ...
And Nora - that police horse looks like it's been set up for flowers in its hair, even if too well groomed for authentic 1967.
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A little more barrel scraping….
To go with the police horse – police telephone.
To go with the Jean Paul Gaultier sign, punters at the museum. -
Haight Ashbury T-Shirts
Shop entrance
Keeping things spruce -
Chinatown at dusk, including a Banksy.
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And don't forget, it is worth getting out your scanners, and not being lazy like myself, there is still a prize to be won for the best travel shot
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
police telephone.
So that's why Doctor Who could never have started in the US!
A TARDIS on a pole, ptui! -
A mixture: a Seville street protest; Princess Street, Edinburgh; and Margate’s number one tourist destination: The Shell Grotto. Whilst it looks, well, grotty, the shell cavern is astounding
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Mission, San Francisco, 2013.
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East Harlem, New York, 2013
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Williamsburg, New York, 2013
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Harlem, New York, 2013
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Brooklyn, 2013
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Hey, nice pictures Louise... looking forward to more!
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Ollantaytambo, Peru, 1975
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Havana, 2013
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Great shots Louise and Geoff.
Havana, 2013
That's a contender. Awesome.
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Sunrise in Amsterdam
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ChrisW, in reply to
Look upon my Works...
Once a traveller in an antique land,
I say: Five large headless trunks of stone
sit on a mountain-top. At their feet,
propped up on rubble by people lacking a sense of style,
the battered fallen heads arrayed in line.
That on the left is said to be of Antiochos I Epiphanes,
King of the Commagenes, but no one’s heard of them these days.
And on the pedestal no words appear:
One has to guess he’d be pissed off to know
he gets mistaken for an inconsequential Antiochus
of the Syrian Seleucids from two or three hundred years before;
and this to mark his tumulus at the summit of his mighty kingdom,
to glorify his memory alongside his peers
Tyche, Zeus, Apollo, Herakles.And why did not the hand that mocked him
trouble to find some decent stone to last two mere millennia?
No words inscribed, but from the corner of his eye
a smoother path amid the weather-etched marble,
past the absent nose broken in the harder fall,
I fancy tracks the tears of centuries
backed by the cry of rocking stones of ages:
What a drag it is getting old,
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Wow!
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Hebe, in reply to
Havana, 2013
That's a shot. Love it.
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"Don't leave home til you've seen the country..."
Cook Strait sunset -
Striking to see ti kouka/ Cordyline australis in Istanbul, planted as an exotic enhancement of the inner courtyard of the Sultan’s palace Topkapi Sarayi.
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Returned for an overnight stay in the middle of Istanbul and found myself in the middle of a festival of food, music and happy Turks, running each night of Ramazan/Ramadan in the Hippodrome. The message in lights strung up between minarets of the Sultanahmet Camii (Blue Mosque) translates as LOVE, BE LOVED. Pretty hard to argue with that.
At ground level in the courtyard of the mosque – about 30 bookstalls and miscellaneous others set up for the month. The lights caught a white bird soaring in the lift off the main dome – a gull, nevertheless intensely evoking the white dove of peace I’d seen earlier in the day …
... over Ay. Minas, the Greek Orthodox cathedral of Heraklion, Crete. It did not hover, I missed the photo, this one instead with cloud perhaps as substitute. There’s a lot of Greek-Turkish history for reconciliation. These seemed a hint of positive signs, 2006 and counting.
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Grapes growing near Ica, Peru
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Apple orchards, Columbia river, Wa state
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