London visit, January 2018. Natural History Museum	The Natural History Museum	Exhibits in the exhibition on Whales and Cetaceans
The Hinze Hall with a blue whale skeleton	Full size model of a Blue Whale	Comparison with elephants in the Mammal Gallery	The single tusk of a Narwal
an unusual Narwal double tusk	The Dinosaur Gallery Tyranosaurus Rex full scale model
Fossil of a Triceratops			Fossil from Lyme Regius discovered by Mary Armstrong
Visit to a usual theatre in London	The London Eye from Westminster Bridge	Big Ben swathed in scaffolding and plastic	From Westminster Bridge
The County Hall, the venue for the play, from Westminster Bridge	The ticket: invitation to jury service!	The centre of the action in the Council Chamber
	Munich Opera and Gallery Visit, January 2018	Gabrielle Munte Exhibition: Malen ohne Schweife	Outside the Lenbachhaus
Young Girl		Self Portrait
	Forest Path	Steam Shovel Building the new Olympia Road to Garmisch	The Opera
Colourful, unusual - but also unhelpful	Start of Act 3		The Chinese Turm; a cold rainy walk in the Englischer Garten
The refurbished Monopterous	Theatiner Kirche from the Hoff Garten		Kunsthalle Exhibition: Gut Wahr Schon; from the Orsay in Paris
Hofkapelle Concert	Mozart performed here ~250 years ago!	Munich Opera and Garmisch to visit friends February 2018	Wagner, Gotterdaemmerung
Arrival at the Hotel Quirin	The Wank	Afternoon sun over the Waxenstein	The Kramer
The Alpspitz and the Waxenstein from the Hotel Quirin	The Alpspitz	Shrewsbury Abbey for the St Mark's Mass Easter 2018	The Abbey
	Llandudno Opera Visit April 2018	Snowdonia from Nebo	Trufan and the Ogwen Valley
Snowdon, left at the rear	The Little Orme, from Llandudno Pier	WNO Programme	Tosca and La Forza del Destino
Walk up the Orme. The pier from Happy Valley	The Pier and the Victoria Monument	The Little Orme from above the ski slope	As high as we went
The tram down! at the passing place.		The valley station	The Bala Lake Railway on the way home from Llandudno April 2018
Bala Station	Waiting for the train.	Arrival
Shunting round the train		Coupling up the "Holy War" for the journey back
The other end: Llanuwchllyn station	Our engine	Coupled up, ready to return to Bala
At Bala, uncoupled		Oiling, ready for the return	Munich for the opera May 2018
The Frauenkirche	Marienplatz: the Toy Museum	The Neue Rathaus	The Opera: Lucretia Borgia, with Edita Guberova
In the park at Schlloss Nymphenburg Badenburg	The Monopterous	The Great Cascade
The Grand Canal			Canada Goslings
	Coupled six-spot Burnets	Glorious Lilac
Ducklings	The Schloss		The Amalienburg Palace
The rear	Within
			Selfie!
	Porcelain
	The front of the Schloss	North Wales with the North Staffordshire Classics Association	The Llangollen Railway
Departing for Corwen	St Tadclud's Church, Penmachno
	The Penmachno Stones		Andy Fear, our Guide
	The group photo: Chris Wain		Near Llanberis
Dollbadarn Castle		Llyn Peris
	with Stephen Clifford, Robert Smith and Chris Wain	photo: Chris Wain
photo: Chris Wain
Llyn Padarn		Segontium	The fundations of a barracks block
Andy instructing photo: Chris Wain	photo: Chris Wain	Andy in full flight, pursued by Pat photo: Chris Wain
Caernarfon Castle on a celebration day			The river from the castle
Lloyd George	St Asaph Cathedral
	Carving in the Choir Stalls		The Patron Saints of St Asaph's
The Translater's Memorial		Munich for the opera and a Diamond Celebration June 2018	Biergarten, Orleansplatz
The Chinesisches Turm, Englisches Garten
The Rose Garden		The Monopteros, Englisches Garten
Egyptian Geese		With Paul Dutro, before the opera	With Christa
		Happy weekend	Attingham Park Probus Visit June 2018
The rear of the Hall		The Hall Kitchen	Shrewsbury river trip with Probus June 2018
The Quantum Leap Statue		The Welsh Bridge	With John Pedley
With Audrey	The Welsh Bridge	The English bridge	the Cruise Boat
Stoke-on-Trent City Museum with Rebecca Warnecke, June 2018		Arnold Bennett, the Author	Reginald Mitchell the Designer of the Spitfire
Commemoration of the steel industry	The Cow Creamers		Lowry Paintings
		Dressing up	Pat and Rebecca
	Palleas and Melisande CBSO Concert Performance June 2018	Symphony Hall	The Curtain Call
North York Moors August 2018	On the way: Tapton Lock, Chesterfeild	Sevenford House, where we stayed	The Rosedale Annual Show
Remarkable markings	Remarkable Guineapig	Colourful rabbit	Enormous chicken
	The Magic show	Judging the heavy horse mares	Mare and foal
Sheep		The Pickering Model Railway Exhibition	OO gauge
N gauge
Pickering Castle		The Outer wall	The Chapel
		The ascent to the Mound	Diate Hill Tower
From the tower	The NYM Railway to Whitby and back	The train arriving from the North in Pickering	On the way north across the moors
Repton at Grossmont		Approaching Whitby	Our engine, going round the train for the next service
	Whitby with the Abbey	The Harbour	Out to sea
James Cook	The North beach - Beach Huts	Cook looking at the Abbey	The engine going round the train prior to our start south
For the last train - a change of engines at Grossmont	A B1 in the Pickering yard	Walk on the Moor to Ana Cross	The Bank Top Ore Roasting Kilns
	Ana Cross
The remains another cross	Passing Ana Cross on the way back		Castle Howard
The North Front of the House		The North Lake
The Antiques Passage	The Ceiling of the dome from the Great Hall beneath
From the indow: the Atlas Fountain	A Delft Tulip Vase in the Museum Room	The Long Gallery	The Chapel
The Chapel Ceiling			The Atlas Fountain
The South front of the House		The Tower of the Winds
The Mausoleum	The Mausoleum over the New River Bridge	The South Front from the South Lake	Probus Visit to see the Terracotta Army in Liverpool
St George's Hall	Wellington	The City Library, looking upwards
The World Museum	The exhibition of Terracotta Warriors
	The model chariot
The Warriors
Smaller Warriors		Horsemen	Farm Animals
The Golden Horse		China's First Emperor Qin Shi Huang	Cheerful in the sun Photo: Diane Leopard
Copenhagen to visit Nicky and Mike September 2018	with Mike and Nicky		Heron, opposite the apartment
The State Museum of Art	Photo: Mike	At the Copenhagen Opera House Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	The Fredrickeskirche across the harbour Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	The auditorium Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Taken to Il Travatore by Mike and Nicky	The final curtain Photo: Mike
Embarkation for a Harbour Cruise aboard a self- steered electric boat
The Cirkelbroen Bridge	St Nicholas Church		The Old Stock Exchange
		The Opera House
	The Old Stock Exchange	Nicky with the Church of our Saviour
Fredriksborg Castle
Fredrik ?	Michael !
			Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike	Photo: Mike
Photo: Mike	Evening on the Sortedams Sløe, from the Apartment	Later	The Museum of Modern Art; rear
The Museum of Modern Art; front	Marooned chairs		A brave lady, sitting on a marooned chair!
The Heron again on the Sortedams Sløe	Visiting Marion and Hendrik in Ordrup Photo: Peter Wulf	Visiting Kath Glover near Pangbourne and my brother, Frank, at New Miilton	The Thames by Pangbourne Meadow
Embarking at Key Haven	En route to Hurst Castle
The Isle of Wght from Hurst Castle		Key Haven from the shingle beach walk	Frank at lunch
With Frank		Cricklade, St Sampson's Church
		Llandudno Opera Visit October 2018	Snowdonia from the Nebo Road
	Tryfan and the Ogwen Valley	WNO: War & Peace and La Ceneratola	The Great Orme
The Little Orme	Low Tide	Early Morning Sunshine from our room	Huddersfield, to visit Misbah and Rudi Deen October 2018
Misbah and Rudi			The Cake, baked for the Enquirers visit
	As the Enquirers were prevented from arriving, the cake was cut.	Wexford and Belfast November 2018	South of Aberystwyth
The beach at Newport, Pembrokeshire	The following morning
On board the ferry to Rosslare	Turning in Fishguard Habour	Within sight of the Irish Coast	Wexford and the River Slaney from our hotel room in White's
At the Opera	With Richard and Ian		The Auditorium
Stage curtains for Il Bravo		Don Pasquale, an afternoon opera in the hotel from the programme	Il Bravo from the programme
Double Bill: L'Oracolo and Mala Vita from the programme	The Girl from the Golden West, an afternoon perfromance in the Hotel from the programme	Dinner at Eight from the programme	Before the last performance
Selskar Abbey, Wexford		Wexford from the Bridge	Visiting James and Usha in Belfast
Visit to Castle Ward, Strangford; the Classical Front	With James		Selfie!
The rear, in a quite different style	An inquisitive seal
Portaferry, across the Lough		Climbing the Hill from the Lough	Departure from Strangford
View of the weather up the Lough	Approaching Portaferry	En route from Belfast to Birkenhead	Liverpool in the early morning
Munich Visit December 27th - 31st 2018	Theatiner Kirche	Operas Posters for the Bartered Bride
	The Christmas Tree at the Stadt Rosenheim Hotel	Walk in the Nymphenburg Schloss Park ...	... with a new Anorak
A pertly iced over lake		Swans, standing on the concealed ice	The Schloss Nymphenburg

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