Visits 2016


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


The Mausoleum


Photo: Mike




Photo: Mike

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Photo: Mike


Photo: Mike


Photo: Mike

Hampton Court



The Maze
Photo: Mike, from a poster

The Centre
Photo: Mike


Photo: Mike

the Gardens
Photo: Mike


Photo: Mike


Tthe Great Hall



Photo: Mike

The Wren Court




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



The Shropshire Union Canal



Second Walk


Visiting Cardiff for the Mariinsky Ballet

With Mike and Nicky as Guests of the Conductor, Valery Gergiev.

Cardiff Castle


The Castle Keep



Walk in Bute Park

The Millenium Stadium




Salford Quays and Manchester for the Ring at the Lowry
june 2016


The Lowry tower


The Lowry and Salford Quays

To the Barton Aqueduct
Bridgewater Canal

The Barton Aqueduct over the Ship Canal


Media City Bridge

Manchester China Town

Shambles Square

Manchester Cathedral









Walk from the Quays to Manchester Piccadilly along the Bridgewater Canal

Manchester United Stadium from the canal


An orchid

Castlefield



Along the Rochdale Canal
with the Beetham Tower


The Beetham Tower


Manchester Art Gallery - Fashion & Freedom exhibition



Media City bridge




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


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



Wexford


A much colder wind

Abbey House B&B


The Dublin train arriving


Setting off for Rosslare along the Wexford Quay


Dublin; Samuel Beckett Bridge

Munich Opera Visit
Novmber 2016

At the Brunnstein with Korean fellow diners

Walk in the Englisher Garten


some snow!

Munich opera: La Favoirite


Munich Opera: Mephistophole


The Glyptothek

Reclining Faun

Architechtural Frieze


Roman Heads

Augustus

Sarcophagus


Statliches Antiksammlung
with an Etruscan Exhibition

An Etruscan Tomb from Tarquinia









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


Otobong Nkanga, The Encounter That Took a Part of Me


Marguerite Humeau, FOXP2
Three Elephant Foetuses

A Weeping Elephant



A dying elephant

The Nottingham Exchange

Melton Mowbray, the Country Park


Llandudno, November 2016

Stormy weather
from the Imperial Hotel

From the shingle




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


Descending

Pause

Happy day

Munich for the Opera
with a Tram Visit
December 2016

Steam train near the Ostbahnhof

Shostakovitch: Lady Macbeth of Mtensk




Christkindlmarkt



The Tram depot at Einsteinstrasse

The Burgomeister declaring the new 25 route extension open

Modern tram




An older model

A side show


The end of the line: The Einsteainstrasse depot


The first tram leaving on the extension

The Nymphenburg Woods: Lesser spotted woodpecker in the centre

The Monopterus

The Schloss Nymphenburg


Lunch at the airport

December Sunset from the aircraft home


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