/blog/lothringia/?pid=f7780 Bits and pieces of sense and nonsense.... /blog/2945/post_146867.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, is just fifteen miles across the Oresund Strait from Malmo which is the third largest city in Sweden. In 2000 a bridge across the strait was completed Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:10:31 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146867.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146762.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] The first three paragraphs were cut and pasted from Wikipedia: Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:41:15 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146762.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146733.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] After we had moved away from the Little Mermaid it was our intention to walk to Christiania, a very unique autonomous communal site in Copenhagen with about 850 residents, but the rain soon Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:15:09 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146733.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146640.html?pid=f7780&m= There's a Catholic Church in Whitefriar St, Dublin, that claims to have the remains of St Valentine. I went there this morning to get some pictures of the casket containing the relics and also of a Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:44:09 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146640.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146620.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] I was very pleased when I woke on Friday morning to use the toilet and the clock told me that it was 03:15 because I had been a bit worried that we could sleep it out and the alarm call fail t Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:17:49 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146620.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146491.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] We knew for sure that Checkpoint Charlie was located in Friedrichstrasse (Frederick St) and so naturally we took a metro train to the station of that name. What we hadn't been told was that Fr Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:28:32 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146491.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146444.html?pid=f7780&m= [image]In the past year or so four of our near neighbours have had their houses insulated with the silver bonded beads method and they are all delighted with the results. All of the houses in question Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:41 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146444.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146314.html?pid=f7780&m= My blog disappeared twice today and I got pissed off waiting for its return so I'm reposting it.[image] When we got outside the train station there were a number of bus stops on both sides of the road Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:55:12 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146314.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_146228.html?pid=f7780&m= [image]The letter S gave me more options than any other letter or subject since our leader, Ben, began Foto Friday about two years ago. So in order to keep a reasonble half decent hold on things I've Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:24:15 -0800 /blog/2945/post_146228.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145950.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] When I saw the subject for this week's show I initially thought that I'd just pick some self-image pictures from those I had already taken but that all changed on Monday morning when I 'met' D Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:13:44 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145950.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145849.html?pid=f7780&m= [image] On Thursday morning I woke at 06:55 and I was very surprised, if not shocked, when I looked at the hands on the clock because that was both good and bad news; very good that I had slept so wel Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:42:05 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145849.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145715.html?pid=f7780&m= [image]In 1954 Dublin Corporation built thirteen blocks of council apartments to house families that had to be relocated from, mostly slum areas of the city that had been earmarked for demolition. Th Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:36 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145715.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145642.html?pid=f7780&m= The girl at the Tourist Information Desk had told me to take a #7 bus, from just outside the terminal, and that would take us to Rudow Metro Station from where we could ride twenty-five stops to our d Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:13:52 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145642.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145489.html?pid=f7780&m= On Wednesday, December 14 I was out of bed at 04:45, the Internet was off and I had to use TV teletext to catch up on the latest news. At 5:50, after shaving and showering, I made tea and toast for Ma Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:01:14 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145489.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145307.html?pid=f7780&m= On Wednesday morning I was up at 5:30 for my second use of the toilet and I stayed up and had a cup of tea while I filled in my diary notes for last night and some gaps I remembered from the afternoon Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:45:28 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145307.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145243.html?pid=f7780&m= After narrowly missing our flight home we were stuck in Milan for an extra day and there was nothing else we could do but try to make the best of it. It had been my fault entirely because I'd gotten t Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:59:29 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145243.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145213.html?pid=f7780&m= On Tuesday, our last morning in Italy, after a good night's sleep, I got up at 7:30 and Maudie stayed in bed while I went to breakfast alone at 7:50. I took a self-image and a picture of the restauran Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:11:44 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145213.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145212.html?pid=f7780&m= [image]All five pictures in this post clearly show signs of where the Berlin Wall stood.The top picture was taken close to the Brandenburg Gate and shows a double line of cobblestones where the wall u Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:07:15 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145212.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145157.html?pid=f7780&m= We took lots of pictures in Plaza Signoria which is the main focal point of the City and public executions, by burning at the stake, used to take place there up to the middle ages. The square contains Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:13:57 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145157.html?pid=f7780&m= /blog/2945/post_145124.html?pid=f7780&m= On Monday morning we both got up at 7:35 after sleeping well but Maudie was feeling a bit down and complaining about feeling very tired. I told her she should be on a high because we were going to Fl Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:42:58 -0800 /blog/2945/post_145124.html?pid=f7780&m=