Mornings and nights are special on a boat. The atmosphere becomes reflective and a little mysterious. It’s not easy to capture with a photo – although I’ve tried many times.
Chris Stevens (Crystal) just sent me this photo of Te Moana at Coal & Candle Creek, taken at dusk one day over the recent long weekend. Really special, thanks, Chris.
After a very exciting European holiday, we’ve settled back at home.
This long weekend, we have been at Akuna Bay (or more accurately, Coal & Candle Creek) with cruising friends from the RPAYC. It’s been very enjoyable, with highlights the maiden cruise of the Nimowa Ambulance and a barbeque lunch at the Akuna Bay marina. More pictures later at the Skipr site.
Just before we flew to the UK, we had a look at the new Samuel Beckett bridge in Dublin, which just arrived from Holland (!). I would never have imagined whole bridges being pre-fabricated and transported.
You can read about it leaving Rotterdam here and about it arriving in Dublin here. As you can see, it’s not just a little whimp of a bridge either.
The project reminded me of a conversation with Willem a couple of weeks ago when he showed us some of the Delta Plan construction and he mentioned spin-off projects around the world for Dutch engineering. This looks like another spin-off from those engineering works. Perhaps I might be excused of having some remaining Dutch pride.
We’ve just about come to the end of our visit to Ireland. I’ve just uploaded some photos to a new (third) album. After being mollycoddled by Globus, it was a change of pace and the deterioration of the weather made taking pretty photos a bit harder. Mind you, we have enjoyed our stay. We thought we’d seen all possible shades of green, but Ireland has a few more. We rented a car and drove down to Waterford (Joy bought some Irish Made Waterford Crystal at the plant which was recently closed). On our way back we passed through Ballykissangel, but father Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald were nowhere to be seen.
Joy and I are now in Dublin, on the final leg of our European holiday. We finished our first organised bus tour and I must say we thoroughly enjoyed it. Across Germany, the Check Republic, Hungary and Austria, we saw some stunningly beautiful building and got a taste of Central Europe. We were pleased with the way the tour was run (Globus) and the compatibility with the others on tour. It’s something we’ll remember for a long time. The photos are in the album.
I'm gradually getting the hang of how to best take night photographs. I'll never be a great photographer, but it's disappointing coming home with blurry photos which you know could have been done better.
We’re in the middle of a Globus Bus Tour, taking us from Berlin to Vienna via Prague and Budapest. In just a few days, we seen enough interesting and beautiful sites to last us a life time.
The hotels are excellent, the tour’s leadership professional and the group is very harmonious. It’s a long way from anything else we’ve ever done, so it is refreshing and is giving us many picturesque moments. We’re soaking it in. More pictures in the album.
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