![](thumb_2016_03_044t_London.jpg) London to stay with Mike & Nicky March 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_03_045.jpg) The Wallace Collection Hertford House, Manchester Square |
![](thumb_2016_03_047.jpg) The Post Office Tower |
![](thumb_2016_03_048.jpg) Dulwich Picture Gallery |
![](thumb_2016_03_049.jpg) with Mike & Nicky |
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![](thumb_2016_03_063.jpg) The Mausoleum |
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![](thumb_2016_03_079m.jpg) The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Photo: Mike |
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![](thumb_2016_03_087.jpg) Hampton Court |
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![](thumb_2016_03_093am.jpg) The Maze Photo: Mike, from a poster |
![](thumb_2016_03_094am.jpg) The Centre Photo: Mike |
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![](thumb_2016_03_094cm.jpg) the Gardens Photo: Mike |
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![](thumb_2016_03_105.jpg) Tthe Great Hall |
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![](thumb_2016_03_111.jpg) The Wren Court |
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![](thumb_2016_03_124m.jpg) Closing time Photo: Mike |
![](thumb_2016_03_147.jpg) St Martins in the Fields |
![](thumb_2016_03_151.jpg) Landseer Lion |
![](thumb_2016_03_152.jpg) Covent Garden the old market |
![](thumb_2016_03_153.jpg) Seija Knight singing Verdii in the market |
![](thumb_2016_03_159.jpg) John Adam House Royal society of Arts |
![](thumb_2016_03_161.jpg) The Staircase |
![](thumb_2016_03_163.jpg) the Great Room |
![](thumb_2016_03_165.jpg) The City from Charing Cross Bridge |
![](thumb_2016_03_169.jpg) Westminster |
![](thumb_2016_03_173.jpg) Manet: The bar at the Folies-Beger Courtauld Collection |
![](thumb_2016_03_175.jpg) Pissarro, Lordship Lane Sation, Dulwich Courtauld Collection |
![](thumb_2016_04_010t_Enid.jpg) Visiting Enid in Chester April 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_04_014.jpg) Two walks in the Countess of Chester Country Park |
![](thumb_2016_04_015.jpg) Enid with Emma and Poppy |
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![](thumb_2016_04_027.jpg) The Shropshire Union Canal |
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![](thumb_2016_04_035.jpg) Second Walk |
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![](thumb_2016_04_054t_Cardiff.jpg) Visiting Cardiff for the Mariinsky Ballet |
![](thumb_2016_04_057.jpg) With Mike and Nicky as Guests of the Conductor, Valery Gergiev. |
![](thumb_2016_04_061.jpg) Cardiff Castle |
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![](thumb_2016_04_067.jpg) The Castle Keep |
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![](thumb_2016_04_075.jpg) Walk in Bute Park |
![](thumb_2016_04_077.jpg) The Millenium Stadium |
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![](thumb_2016_06_080t_Salford_Quays.jpg) Salford Quays and Manchester for the Ring at the Lowry june 2016 |
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![](thumb_2016_06_083.jpg) The Lowry tower |
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![](thumb_2016_06_087.jpg) The Lowry and Salford Quays |
![](thumb_2016_06_089.jpg) To the Barton Aqueduct Bridgewater Canal |
![](thumb_2016_06_091.jpg) The Barton Aqueduct over the Ship Canal |
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![](thumb_2016_06_097.jpg) Media City Bridge |
![](thumb_2016_06_101.jpg) Manchester China Town |
![](thumb_2016_06_103.jpg) Shambles Square |
![](thumb_2016_06_107.jpg) Manchester Cathedral |
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![](thumb_2016_06_131.jpg) Walk from the Quays to Manchester Piccadilly along the Bridgewater Canal |
![](thumb_2016_06_137.jpg) Manchester United Stadium from the canal |
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![](thumb_2016_06_143.jpg) An orchid |
![](thumb_2016_06_145.jpg) Castlefield |
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![](thumb_2016_06_151.jpg) Along the Rochdale Canal with the Beetham Tower |
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![](thumb_2016_06_157.jpg) The Beetham Tower |
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![](thumb_2016_06_161.jpg) Manchester Art Gallery - Fashion & Freedom exhibition |
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![](thumb_2016_06_175.jpg) Media City bridge |
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![](thumb_2016_06_187.jpg) Relections from the under lit bridge ... |
![](thumb_2016_06_189.jpg) ... after Wagner's Götterdämerung |
![](thumb_2016_11_010t_Wexford.jpg) Wexford Opera Festival Novmber 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_11_011.jpg) Y Garn, Snowdonia On the way |
![](thumb_2016_11_013.jpg) Llyn Ogwen |
![](thumb_2016_11_015.jpg) Sunset on the Irish Sea |
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![](thumb_2016_11_019.jpg) Bray, Co. Wicklow |
![](thumb_2016_11_022a.jpg) Wexford Opera: Maria de Rudenz |
![](thumb_2016_11_022b.jpg) Wexford Opera: Herculanum |
![](thumb_2016_11_022c.jpg) Wexford Opera: Vanessa |
![](thumb_2016_11_022e.jpg) Wexford Opera: The Bear |
![](thumb_2016_11_022f.jpg) The Night Bell |
![](thumb_2016_11_025.jpg) Ready to go out |
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![](thumb_2016_11_037.jpg) Wexford |
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![](thumb_2016_11_048.jpg) A much colder wind |
![](thumb_2016_11_055.jpg) Abbey House B&B |
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![](thumb_2016_11_070a.jpg) The Dublin train arriving |
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![](thumb_2016_11_071.jpg) Setting off for Rosslare along the Wexford Quay |
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![](thumb_2016_11_085.jpg) Dublin; Samuel Beckett Bridge |
![](thumb_2016_11_086t_Munich.jpg) Munich Opera Visit Novmber 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_11_089.jpg) At the Brunnstein with Korean fellow diners |
![](thumb_2016_11_093.jpg) Walk in the Englisher Garten |
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![](thumb_2016_11_097.jpg) some snow! |
![](thumb_2016_11_099.jpg) Munich opera: La Favoirite |
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![](thumb_2016_11_111.jpg) Munich Opera: Mephistophole |
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![](thumb_2016_11_116.jpg) The Glyptothek |
![](thumb_2016_11_117.jpg) Reclining Faun |
![](thumb_2016_11_121.jpg) Architechtural Frieze |
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![](thumb_2016_11_129.jpg) Roman Heads |
![](thumb_2016_11_131.jpg) Augustus |
![](thumb_2016_11_133.jpg) Sarcophagus |
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![](thumb_2016_11_139.jpg) Statliches Antiksammlung with an Etruscan Exhibition |
![](thumb_2016_11_145.jpg) An Etruscan Tomb from Tarquinia |
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![](thumb_2016_11_166.jpg) Konigsplatz entrance |
![](thumb_2016_11_167.jpg) Mittagessen bei Brunnstein |
![](thumb_2016_11_169.jpg) Sunset on the way home |
![](thumb_2016_11_209t_Nottingham.jpg) Nottingham for the Opera November 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_11_210.jpg) The Nottingham Contemporary Art Museum |
![](thumb_2016_11_211.jpg) Otobong Nkanga, A Taste of Stone |
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![](thumb_2016_11_217.jpg) Otobong Nkanga, The Encounter That Took a Part of Me |
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![](thumb_2016_11_225.jpg) Marguerite Humeau, FOXP2 Three Elephant Foetuses |
![](thumb_2016_11_229.jpg) A Weeping Elephant |
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![](thumb_2016_11_233.jpg) A dying elephant |
![](thumb_2016_11_237.jpg) The Nottingham Exchange |
![](thumb_2016_11_239.jpg) Melton Mowbray, the Country Park |
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![](thumb_2016_11_252_Llandudno.jpg) Llandudno, November 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_11_253.jpg) Stormy weather from the Imperial Hotel |
![](thumb_2016_11_255.jpg) From the shingle |
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![](thumb_2016_11_263.jpg) A better morning The pier at low tide |
![](thumb_2016_11_265.jpg) the Little Orme |
![](thumb_2016_11_269.jpg) A still nicer day |
![](thumb_2016_11_271.jpg) Climbing the Great Orme from above the hotel |
![](thumb_2016_11_273.jpg) From the park |
![](thumb_2016_11_275.jpg) The pier |
![](thumb_2016_11_279.jpg) St Tudno's Church and Cemetery |
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![](thumb_2016_11_285.jpg) Descending |
![](thumb_2016_11_289.jpg) Pause |
![](thumb_2016_11_293.jpg) Happy day |
![](thumb_2016_12_010t_Munich.jpg) Munich for the Opera with a Tram Visit December 2016 |
![](thumb_2016_12_011.jpg) Steam train near the Ostbahnhof |
![](thumb_2016_12_013.jpg) Shostakovitch: Lady Macbeth of Mtensk |
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![](thumb_2016_12_021.jpg) Christkindlmarkt |
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![](thumb_2016_12_027.jpg) The Tram depot at Einsteinstrasse |
![](thumb_2016_12_029.jpg) The Burgomeister declaring the new 25 route extension open |
![](thumb_2016_12_031.jpg) Modern tram |
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![](thumb_2016_12_043.jpg) An older model |
![](thumb_2016_12_047.jpg) A side show |
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![](thumb_2016_12_051.jpg) The end of the line: The Einsteainstrasse depot |
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![](thumb_2016_12_057.jpg) The first tram leaving on the extension |
![](thumb_2016_12_059.jpg) The Nymphenburg Woods: Lesser spotted woodpecker in the centre |
![](thumb_2016_12_061.jpg) The Monopterus |
![](thumb_2016_12_063.jpg) The Schloss Nymphenburg |
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![](thumb_2016_12_067.jpg) Lunch at the airport |
![](thumb_2016_12_069.jpg) December Sunset from the aircraft home |
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