London to stay with Mike & Nicky March 2016 |
The Wallace Collection Hertford House, Manchester Square |
The Post Office Tower |
Dulwich Picture Gallery |
with Mike & Nicky |
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The Mausoleum |
Photo: Mike |
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Photo: Mike |
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Photo: Mike |
Photo: Mike |
Photo: Mike |
Hampton Court |
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The Maze Photo: Mike, from a poster |
The Centre Photo: Mike |
Photo: Mike |
the Gardens Photo: Mike |
Photo: Mike |
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Tthe Great Hall |
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Photo: Mike |
The Wren Court |
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Closing time Photo: Mike |
St Martins in the Fields |
Landseer Lion |
Covent Garden the old market |
Seija Knight singing Verdii in the market |
John Adam House Royal society of Arts |
The Staircase |
the Great Room |
The City from Charing Cross Bridge |
Westminster |
Manet: The bar at the Folies-Beger Courtauld Collection |
Pissarro, Lordship Lane Sation, Dulwich Courtauld Collection |
Visiting Enid in Chester April 2016 |
Two walks in the Countess of Chester Country Park |
Enid with Emma and Poppy |
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The Shropshire Union Canal |
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Second Walk |
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Visiting Cardiff for the Mariinsky Ballet |
With Mike and Nicky as Guests of the Conductor, Valery Gergiev. |
Cardiff Castle |
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The Castle Keep |
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Walk in Bute Park |
The Millenium Stadium |
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Salford Quays and Manchester for the Ring at the Lowry june 2016 |
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The Lowry tower |
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The Lowry and Salford Quays |
To the Barton Aqueduct Bridgewater Canal |
The Barton Aqueduct over the Ship Canal |
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Media City Bridge |
Manchester China Town |
Shambles Square |
Manchester Cathedral |
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Walk from the Quays to Manchester Piccadilly along the Bridgewater Canal |
Manchester United Stadium from the canal |
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An orchid |
Castlefield |
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Along the Rochdale Canal with the Beetham Tower |
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The Beetham Tower |
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Manchester Art Gallery - Fashion & Freedom exhibition |
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Media City bridge |
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Relections from the under lit bridge ... |
... after Wagner's Götterdämerung |
Wexford Opera Festival Novmber 2016 |
Y Garn, Snowdonia On the way |
Llyn Ogwen |
Sunset on the Irish Sea |
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Bray, Co. Wicklow |
Wexford Opera: Maria de Rudenz |
Wexford Opera: Herculanum |
Wexford Opera: Vanessa |
Wexford Opera: The Bear |
The Night Bell |
Ready to go out |
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Wexford |
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A much colder wind |
Abbey House B&B |
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The Dublin train arriving |
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Setting off for Rosslare along the Wexford Quay |
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Dublin; Samuel Beckett Bridge |
Munich Opera Visit Novmber 2016 |
At the Brunnstein with Korean fellow diners |
Walk in the Englisher Garten |
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some snow! |
Munich opera: La Favoirite |
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Munich Opera: Mephistophole |
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The Glyptothek |
Reclining Faun |
Architechtural Frieze |
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Roman Heads |
Augustus |
Sarcophagus |
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Statliches Antiksammlung with an Etruscan Exhibition |
An Etruscan Tomb from Tarquinia |
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Konigsplatz entrance |
Mittagessen bei Brunnstein |
Sunset on the way home |
Nottingham for the Opera November 2016 |
The Nottingham Contemporary Art Museum |
Otobong Nkanga, A Taste of Stone |
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Otobong Nkanga, The Encounter That Took a Part of Me |
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Marguerite Humeau, FOXP2 Three Elephant Foetuses |
A Weeping Elephant |
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A dying elephant |
The Nottingham Exchange |
Melton Mowbray, the Country Park |
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Llandudno, November 2016 |
Stormy weather from the Imperial Hotel |
From the shingle |
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A better morning The pier at low tide |
the Little Orme |
A still nicer day |
Climbing the Great Orme from above the hotel |
From the park |
The pier |
St Tudno's Church and Cemetery |
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Descending |
Pause |
Happy day |
Munich for the Opera with a Tram Visit December 2016 |
Steam train near the Ostbahnhof |
Shostakovitch: Lady Macbeth of Mtensk |
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Christkindlmarkt |
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The Tram depot at Einsteinstrasse |
The Burgomeister declaring the new 25 route extension open |
Modern tram |
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An older model |
A side show |
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The end of the line: The Einsteainstrasse depot |
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The first tram leaving on the extension |
The Nymphenburg Woods: Lesser spotted woodpecker in the centre |
The Monopterus |
The Schloss Nymphenburg |
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Lunch at the airport |
December Sunset from the aircraft home |
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