Recent content by merlin

A few photos from Bangkok on the first day here ​ ​ ​ ​

Hello from Jerusalem, we have spent a long day walking around the old town here and have just got back at 10pm. We are settled in our small studio apartment in a nice residential area about a 15 minute walk to the centre, it's a lovely stroll along the disused train track that used to run to Tel...

Amazing price Rose the commercial ones are often less than a pound for 4

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I had completely forgotten our trip to Sicily in the summer of 2012, although it was only six years ago my memories were few, but the other day looking through the hundreds of photos we took have brought back a lot of lovely memories. I hadn't seen much of the country apart from the Godfather...

I guess there are few positive effects of the drought we have had in the UK this summer, but this is one secret that has been revealed, it always amazes me how from the air, we can still see so many imprints of ancient sites lost in time. LINK The scorching weeks of the summer of 2018 left...

Though the capital Skopje is not in our opinion a very attractive city, with lots of kitsch statues and fountains everywhere, we did like the 15th century mosque, very peaceful and deserted when we called in there... Here are a few photos of it:

Impressions of Bulgaria ​ The first word that came to me on landing in Sofia airport was "peace" not what I expected at all, Sofia the capital unlike any other capital city I have been to was deserted and silent, the only action we found was at a restaurant we went to on Saturday night. Every...

The Radio Museum in Pereslavl-Zalessky This was a fascinating museum we visited on our last day, the owner who is in his 70s, has collected and restored to full working order a large collection of radio receivers, and record players from all over the world, plus a few early TV sets. He was a...

A few photos of some of the meals we had while on our recent trip to Pereslavl Zalessky This is called a beer plate with a mix of fish, garlic bread and onion rings etc... ​ A rabbit stew I had ​ A beef stew we both had one day ​ A fishcake dish Lisa had ..... ​ A dessert we...

A suitcase full of photographic wonder ​ LINK It's not often you are sent a set of pictures that make you gasp, especially ones taken decades ago. Yet here they are, beautiful black and white pictures that have remained hidden, buried in a loft waiting to be brought out into the light. These...

Tales of Georgia This was a highlight of our time in Georgia, it's an ancient 6th to 12th century town built into a mountain, it housed 60,000 at it's peak with thousands of dwellings. Queen Tamar though called King despite being a woman, lived here and evidently had 365 bedrooms, so she...

I came across this article today featuring photographs of Chinese cycle dumps, though it's an environmental tragedy really, they do make mesmerising pictures... Article LINK

LINK Quite an amazing result for me, if I follow the google map link I get this map of all the places including hotels and restaurants I have been to during 2017, gathered from my mobile/cell phone tracked positions. Each red blob when hovered over gives the details of the exact location...

Here is a story of amazing coincidence and demonstrating the sheer power of the internet, in a good way...... The incredible journey of a camera lost at sea