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Lanzarote Photos part 2

Sparkie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:11:06 +0000

Lanzarote photos part 1

Sparkie — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:41:21 +0000

Swiss Panoramae

Sparkie — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:38:23 +0000

Belatedly, as ever, here are some panoramas from Switzerland. Despite the best efforts of the Swiss government to force the exchange rates towards something vaguely normal, things remained ridiculously expensive all week. Luckily our apartment had a cooker so we made tonnes of pasta to avoid the restaurants, and drank the French wine I had brought along from the week before, but the Schweizerische Bundesbahnen now have a lot of my money.

Prague

Sparkie — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:05:17 +0000

A weekend break after the Goldschmidt conference allowed for some gentle sightseeing. Whilst you can charge round most of the city in two days, we took a leisurely four and had a great time, recommended.

Barbados

Sparkie — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:31:09 +0000

We’ve been home a while now, it’s defninitely time for some photos. I can thoroughly recommend Barbados as a holiday destination, it was just the right balance of beach, sunshine, places to visit and incredibly alcoholic cocktails.

Lefkada

Sparkie — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:29:32 +0000

Some photos from our pre-term holiday in Greece. I can certainly recommend the island of Lefkada (a.k.a. Lefkas) as it is pretty, relaxed and easy to get around with a car (as long as you can avoid the local drivers). We got a cracking late deal on flights and a villa, with a great pool.

Guess where I am

Sparkie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:16:04 +0000

There are no prizes…

Budapest Pictures 2

Sparkie — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:59:50 +0000

Taroko Gorge

Sparkie — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:28:51 +0000

Today I went to Taroko Gorge, which was awesome. The weather was cooler and less humid than Taipei, although hiking was still tiring. We met up with a park ranger who has been conscientiously collecting samples for Niels for years, who took us to a fresh landslide which we spent several hours clambering over and sampling. Then I went for a walk up the gorge, and found this:

At the bottom are hot spring pools, the photo is taken from a rickety suspension bridge over the river.

Budapest Pictures 1

Sparkie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:51:44 +0000