Category: travel
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Mixing cooked rice
Beef bulgogi bibimbap for dinner, one evening in Nagomi Cheltenham. Bibimbap, Korean: 비빔밥. The term bibim means “mixing” and bap is cooked rice.
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Nanook country..
Well the fur trapper Stood there With his arms outstretched Across the frozen white wasteland Trying to figure out what he’s gonna do About his deflicted eyes And it was at that precise moment that he remembered An ancient Eskimo legend Wherein it is written On whatever it is that they write it on up…
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Landscape Photography of the year
An exhibition of Landscape Photography of the Year 2022 in Manchester Piccadilly train station.
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London City Airport (test)
This is a test of the workflow: – take photo – upload it to Flickr via the mobile app – share the photo from the Flickr app to the WordPress app …to have it published on RunningWithBulls.com
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Is that a Hockney?
Sitting in St. Pancras Station, waiting for the Eurostar. Drinking a hot chocolate (lumps of cocoa dropped into hot milk). Woman walks passed as I dreedle the last chocolate into the milk. “Very nice, is that a Hockney”, she says.
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Good morning Wutai
Wutai (Chinese: 霧臺鄉; Rukai language: Vedai) is village in the Wutai Township. The township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The main population is the Rukai people of the Taiwanese aborigines. As of the year 2014, the Rukai numbered 12,699, and is the seventh-largest of the 13 officially recognized indigenous groups in…
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A Japanese Izakaya, Kaohsiung
An izakaya (居酒屋) is a type of informal Japanese pub. They are casual places for after-work drinking. They have been compared to Irish pubs, tapas bars and early American saloons and taverns. — excerpt from Wikipedia article on izakaya
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Hair cut achieved
I managed to get my short back and sides haircut in Kaohsiung today. Hair cut, hair wash, and neck massage all for 300 NTD. Total bargain. I’m leaving this here for next time I need to get a hair cut when I don’t speak the local language well enough.
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Don’t you think Taiwan should be independent?
Taiwanese woman: Where are you from? Me: Ireland Woman: Oh! Ireland is independent. Me: Yes, it is. Woman: Don’t you think Taiwan should be independent? Me: Yes I do. Woman: Hmm, some people don’t think it’s important.
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The Wizard of Alderley Edge, performed by unknown
(Click the play button above this to hear them play.) I went to the Low Lights Pub in North Shields last night for a pint and a pie. I didn’t expect anyone to be there, but these boys were playing a gig. Lovely folk songs. Apparently they play every Sunday, maybe Monday, and Wednesday (when…
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Cockles and mussels alive alive-o
I was in Wales visiting the cockle beds at the Three Rivers Estuary in Carmarthen for work. These cockles are about the size for picking. You know this due to the size of the shell. Cockle shells are like a tree – each “growth ring” (running perpendicular to each ridge) signifies a year of growth.…
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Ivor Novello statue, Bute Place, Cardiff – by night.
Ivor Novello, born 15 January 1893 and died 6 March 1951. Born David Ivor Davies, he was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in…
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Three rivers eastuary, Carmarthen
Three Rivers Estuary is the confluence of the rivers Tywi, Taf and Gwendraeth. It lies in Carmarthen Bay. Withim the bay there’s lots of very beautiful spots – Caldey Island near Tenby. Towns and villages in the bay include, from east to west: Llanelli, Burry Port(Porth Tywyn), Pembrey(Penbre), Kidwelly(Cydweli), Ferryside(Glanyfferi), Llansteffan, Laugharne(Talacharn), Pendine(Pentywyn), Amroth, Wisemans…
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The original John’s Plaice
The Original John’s Plaice, Wigton Road, Carlisle is located in the building of an old Little Chef restaurant. That’s where the commonalities end. For £9.75 you can feast on fresh haddock, chips and mushy peas. Their curry sauce is the best chip-shop curry I’ve ever had. If you ever find yourself on the Wigton road,…
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Lake District, overcast.
“In all the years I’ve been going , I’ve ever been in the Lake District when it’s not been raining, at some time.” My colleague, driving today.
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Guard vessel, on channel 16
A guard vessel, in terms of fishing boats, is a fishing boat that stops it’s fishing activity It is assigned as a stationary guard near an area of the sea where fishing can’t take place, near a wind turbine or an area where work is being carried out. During this time, it removes all it’s…
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Watching you watching the ferry
Fishing vessel crew member watching the Princess Seaways passenger and cargo ferry leaving the Port of Tyne, Newcastle.
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Gleaner II – alongisde North Shields fish quay
Gleaner II, tied up alongside North Shields Fish Quay. High winds expected.
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