1998 Pictures in Chronological order


Returning home to Garmisch-Partenkirchen
January 1998

Dawn on the Ferry to Europort


Brighter, later

Duesseldorf with Conny and Sarah





Home - the Alpspitz

The Waxenstein and Zugspitz


Skiing in Hochgurgl, just for the day
January 1998

From the hotel, towards Obergurgl

Vienna, to visit IIasa




Visiting the Breugel Exhibition


Walking up the hill to see the 1998 Skiing World Cup
January 1998



Ticket to the finish area

Inflating a balloon near the finish


A television view point


Patricia visiting Banchory (while Peter was in Washington)


Mike's house and new car in Banchory


To London, Newcastle and Norwich
April 1998

St Mary Le Strand


St Clement Danes


The Monument

Tower Bridge

Southwark Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

The Globe Theatre

St Paul's again

Entering the City

Blackfriar's Bridge

Big Ben

Norwich Castle



Walk to Elmau and Mittenwald

Removal of the International Scientific Secretariat from Garmisch to the GSF in Munich

Clearing out the office before re-decoration

Garmisch is still home!


The Tankard, a gift from the IFU Stammtisch

Visiit to Sicily with a group organised by Studiosus Reisen
May 1998

Catania





Syracuse; the Greek Theatre




Our Tour Guide


Roman Amphitheatre



Syracuse Cathedral



Temple of Apollo



Acanthus spinosus


Piazza Amerina





The Mozaics












Agriigento: the Valley of the Temples



Temple of Hera






An Atlas


Temple of Juno


The Quarry at Cusa



Cave di Cusa


An Adder with a mouse


Selinunte


Temple E





Convolulus tricolour









Cathedral of Monreale






The cloisters




Palermo; Capella Palatina

Out tour group





Palermo: San Giovanni delgi Esemiti




The Cathedral





Walk to Piana delgi Albanesi

Legume Lathyrus (?)


Asphodel

Gyandiris syssirynchium


Vicia villosa

Gladiolus


Fennel

Orchis laxifolia (?)




Ornithogalum umbellatum



Anacampsis (?)






Cefalu






Our tour group


Taormina and Etna

Etna, just visible














Etna from the road up.


Demolished in the last eruption

Some of the forest was left

Our hotel room



The Greek - Roman Theatre

Timothy's Christening
Düsseldorf, 31st May1998

Timothy




With Stephen, the Proud Father

With Sarah



Rebecca (Godmother) Conny, Stephen & Timothy




Pat with Sarah

Embroidered by Grandmother (Pat)

Behind: Annette & Josef, Conny's Mother (the other Grandmother)



Standing at the back: Chris. and Christiana

With Enid, Sylvia and Melanie
June 1998

With Enid in Chester

Sylvia and Enid in Chester

Walking with Melanie above Dartmouth

Noss Mayo Church (St Peter, the poor fisherman)

Sunset over Dartmoor


Our 40th Wedding Anniversary at Bamburgh in Northumberland

James in the bubbles - can you see Michael who is there too?

On the beach with Bamburgh Castle behind.
Michael, Fiona, Charlie, James, Grandma, Felicity, Will, Sarah, Nicky, Rosalind and Paul - missing: Timothy (asleep), Conny & Stephen


Charlie, Felicity, James, Fiona, Sarah, Will

The very proud Grandparents

Fighting in vain to save the castle as the tide came in.
Sarah?, Rosalind, Stephen, Will, Granddad, Fiona (behind)

Paul, Rosalind, Fiona and Felicity
Lindisfarne Castle behind

Stephen, Conny, Sarah and Timothy
Lindisfarne Castle behind

Exploring the rock pools


Michael, Nicky, Will, James and Charlie
Lindisfarne Castle behind

Lindisfarne Priory


The children's dinner
Felicity, Will, Fiona, Timothy (facing away)

Michael and James

Timothy

The proud grandparents

With the boys and their ladies
Nicky, Michael, Conny, Stephen, Rosalind and Paul


Opening presents!

with Timothy


The grandchildren
back: Felicity, James, Fiona, Will
front: Timothy, Sarah, Charlie

Conny, Stephen, Sarah and Timothy

Bamburgh Castle

Seals on the Farne Islands



The Lighthouse. Michael and family with Granddad

Charlie and Nicky admiring a swimming seal

Eurotrac meeting (Coordinators?) in Kuhbachstrasse
June 1998

Ready for the off!

Tim Jungblut, ? , Frau Schartmueller and me

Frau Schartmueller (my personal assistant)

Roy Harrison, Birmingham

Anton Eliassen, Oslo

Markus Amann, IIASA

Sören Larson, Roskilde

Frank Raes, EC, Ispra

Ulrich Schurath, Bonn

Eurotrac IEC Meeting, Latvia
July 1998

Jurmala?



Riga Railway Station in the rain
Tim jungblut, Giovanna Finzi and Sören Larson

The Freedom Monument, Riga

St Peter's Church

Ceiling



Irmgard's 50th Birthday Party
July 1998

Pat's frock

All dressed up!


With Irmgard and Roswitha

Irmgard and Jean

A lovely evening

Music inside

Christa


GSF Bretriebsausflug
July 1998

With Tim Jungblut and Colleagues

Bayrische Wald

Trip to England; Kings Cross, July 1998

Walk from the Heimgarten to the Herzhogstand
July 1998


Walchensee


The Heimgarten



With Sarah and Timothy in Düsseldorf

Sarah with her new Dirndl, made by Pat


Timothy


Showing off the new Psion

Climbing the Simetsberg
August 1998



Almost on the summit

The Walchensee, Heimgarten and Hertzogstand


Zugspitze in the distance

Returning from Verona over the Timmelsjoch

The Timmelsjoch pass from the Brenner to Hochgurgl


South Africa; 1. Cape Town and Table Mountain






The South Atlantic Ocean





Table Mountain



South Africa: 2, Cape of Good Hope



Cape Point




Baboons

Penguins, nesting in a car park


Matjiesfonteiin


South Africa: 3, The Garden Route, along the South Coast

Swartberg Pass





Cango Caves

Oudtshoorn Ostrich Farm




Knysa with the tourist express

From our room

The Kranshoek Trail, along by the Indian Ocean




Cape Daisies?

Protea


The mouth of Storms River
Peter on the bridge


South Africa: 4, The Addo Elephant Park

Bush Elephants


Warthog

Baboon

South Africa: 5, Pretoria with Janet Hughes

Voortrekker Monument


With Janet Hughes


The Monument

First Dutch Reformed Church

Paul Kruger

with Janet Hughes

South Africa: 6, Bourke's Lock Potholes




Lizard


South Africa: 7, Kriger National Park

Elephant


Impala



Giraffe

Baboons and Zebra


Warthog


Our Pre-conference tour group

African Hamerkopf


Locust?


Impala

Crocodile

Heron

Hippopotamus

Toucan?

The bush: the usual view from the bus

Cape Buffalo



A herd of Cape Buffalo

Marabou Storks

Storks and Egrets

Greater Kudu


Lions



Buffalo

?

Jackal?

A group of Hippomotami


Eagle


Bushlands Game Lodge

Zebra


Nyala

Our tour group at breakfast

Storks

?

Giraffe




Cattle and Zebra

Bush Protrait

Zebra



Dumazulu Zulu Village

Various Zulu showing their former attire








Ladies dancing

Warriors dancing


Durban Botanic and Bird Garden

Orchids


Maribu Storks

Hadeda Ibis?

Lizard

Green headed pigeon?

Fiery Necked Nightjar

White Stork?

Scops Owl?


Cape Vulture

Shark

Home in Garmisch again
Septmber 1998

Ludwig on the Philosophen Weg



The new Farchant Bypass Tunnel ...

... under construction

Canal du Midi
from Narbonne
October 1998

Toulouse: Bascilica St Sernin




Narbonne, Quai d'Alsace
Picking up the boat
See the cruise log book

Écluse de Moussoulens (overnight)

A view along the canal

Écluse de Empair: breakdown
one of the steerig cables had broken.
We were rescued by the hire company after about two hours
See the cruise log book

Waiting

The main Canal du Midi

Marseillette



See the cruise log book

The Crew
Pat wearing a gift, A Swiss postal hat, from two Swiss voyageurs



Le Somail
See the cruise log book


Narbonne
Cathedral and Bishop's Palace






Düsseldorf to stay during celebration for Adolf Ebel in Köln

Timothy and Sarah





Budapest
November 1998

Matthias Kirche ?

Budapest

Eger, Hungary
with Sabine Törok

In the spa pool, in the rain!



Cistertian Church, Eger



Eger castle




Budapst: the Children's Railway




Genemis outing

Pat with a falcon

With Rainer Friedrich, the Genemis Coordinator

Archery

Budapest at night

Kleine Scheidegg for the TOR workshop
November 1998

The Eiger

Lokking north beyond Interlaken



Looking North-West

Conference Excursion; waiting for the train up to the Jungfraujoch


Evi Schuebach

In the glacier

With acquaintances

The Monch

The Jungfraujoch observatory


The Jungfrau

Our last EUROTRAC workshop- - the card which accompanied a gift of two skiing watches

Banchory to visit Michael and family
November 1998

With the family

Climbing Scolty Hill


The Summit

Banchory

To the sea!

William

Charlie

James

Garmisch in the snow and Kerry's visit




With Kerry


walking round the Eibsee

Stephen and family, sledging in Garmisch
December 1998 - January 1999

Stephen

Granddad with Sarah

Stephen and Conny

Stephen & Timothy



Grandma


Timothy



Timothy

Sarah

Stephen & his Dad


The family



Sarah

Timothy



Bladon to see Churchill's Grave


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