Visits 2014

Also in 2014: Events, Garden, Visits, Walks, Paul, Stephen, Michael, Peter's 80th Birthday, Holidays:Winter Skiing, Boating, Northumberland, Bayreuth


Munich
February 2014

Alte Pinakothek; the access staircase

Cranach


Durer?

Raphael?

Leonardo da Vinci?

Lippi?

Veronese

Josse de Momper; the Ruined Bridge


Canaletto

El Greco

Murillo


The Opera: Turandot

Wearing 3D specs with George ...

... Ailien, Irmgard, Roswitha ...

...us ...

... Christa and Paul

Walk in the Englische Garten
Prinz-Karl Palais


Cootes


The Frauenkirche, from the Kaufhof Cafe

At the Paros Tavera



Bishaop's Walthamstow
The Palace

The kitchen and brewery


The Keep


Our bed and breakfast
Post Mead


Former Pub in the Village

Winchester Cathedral
April 2014




The Nave


The Chancel

The High Altar




the North Aisle

Silent II by Anthony Gormley ...

... in the flooded Crypt



Petworth House and Park
April 2014

The Rotunda

The Doric Temple

The House Entrance

The Chapel


The North Bay

J.W.M.Turner

J.W.M.Turner

by the Le Nain brothers

J.W.M.Turner

Henry VIII after Holbein


Grinling Gibbons carving

van Dyck

Wellington

van Dyck

The Royal Bed

The park

The front of the House


Deer in the park



The Rotunda

Whitmore Hall with Probus
June 2014



The entrance hall

Our hosts: Christine and Guy Cavenagh-Mainwaring



The wall of the old house, encased in the present walls






The gardens

The stables


Munich Opera Visit
June 2014

The Opera: Bellini, Montagues and Capulets

Micky, Gastehaus Brunnstein

Jackdaw
Orleansplatz

The Villa Stuck

The Friedensengel

Musik Salon

Stuck: Tochter Mary

Stuck: Blasender Faun

Modern ceiling

Empfangs Salon

Speisesaal

Empfang

Stuck: Tochter Mary

Lunch in the garden


Walk from Iffeldorf to Seeshaupt

Ostersee with Herzogstand and Heimgarten


Train: Munich Kochel

Bullfinch



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker



Groebensee

The ferry arriving at Seeshaupt

Seeshaupt from the ferry

The lake steamer

Off into the storm

After the rainstorm

Tutzing

Cy Twombly, Roses
Brandhorst Museum, Munich



Cy Twombly, Battle of Lepanto



The fountain: Orleansplatz


Buxton Opera Festival
July 2014

Walk: Solomon's Temple & the Golf Course

Another occupant


past the obstacle

On the tower


With friends at the Roseleigh Guest House...

... Richard L., Clare,
Richard M., Ian

The new pillar in the playground

Picture in La Brasserie
this could almost have been Stephen in Orsay in 1974!

Edinburgh & Will's Circus

Will, practising
at the Edinburgh Mela


helper

clever!

juggling




with Grandma

Sari stall at the Edinburgh Mela

The Castle

at the top of Arthur's Seat

"yes" vote from the distant ski slope

Arthur's Seat

The concluding firework display of the Festival




The Dome Bar


Bray and Wexford
October 2014

Sunrise, from our room

The Ulysses Guest House

Bray sea front

A drone!

on the ground


Wexford with the opera house

The fish quay


Cormorant fishing


Little Gull


Birmingham for the Ring
and the Lickey Hills

The Bull Ring Church

The Bull decorated for Remembrance Day

The view from the hotel

The Staffordhire Hoard
at the Birmingham Museum






The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery




The Myako Teppanyaki Restaurant

preparation

cooking!

The Le Truc Restaurant

Birmingham from Rednal Hill

The Longbridge Works

Wet cobwebs

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