Quilt and Amish country USA

(just found this in draft so this is definitely the last one)

These alpaca's were on show at the Lancaster Harvest Day celebrations. They were to advertise the new alpaca burgers. Yum...

 

Actually the alpacha's were there to market alpacha wool for knitting etc.

Hi there my blog friends. This will probably be my last blog as I've decided to return to Oz (how Dorothy of me). I'm arriving on Australia Day and how lucky for me that the country has decided that in celebration of my return you all get a public holiday so make sure you enjoy the day. Please don't all come to the airport though because the authorities have informed me that they just couldn't handle that size crowd. Actually I did exaggerate a little coz usually I have my parties  in phone boxes because I find that space is just enough.

Anyway enough talking about me... Here are some photos relating to me instead..

How do you like my new....

Doc's

How cool are they? (just want to assure you I haven't been involved in any riots). I think there were a great way to spend the last of my English pounds.

Check out this lovely garden from a National Trust Property

Yes, for those of you who have been to my garden back home it is pretty similar.

These are some apartments in Amsterdam - slightly weird. The first one is looking face on through the bus window. The second is looking up and the third is also looking face on. Apparently they are all level inside.

Paddington Bear at Paddington Station

My visit to the home of Queens Park Rangers football team 'Loftus Park'.

This is my dad's club - despite living in Australia for 40 years.

Ok, I think that's all folks. Thanks for keeping a watch on the blog.



Hi again,

Here's the rest of the photo's

The archway that Maria Von Trapp and the VT kids ran through in the movie. (I didn't run or walk, I just stood at one end and took the photo. Holidays are not for running around)

The old shopping quarter - that seemed to have a lot of high end shops eg. Prada Louis Vitton, Rolex etc. The Austrian's must have lots of money. There were also lots of tee-shirts for sale saying  'There are no kangaroos in Austria'. Apparently they are always mistaken for being Australians.

The convent where the real Maria Von Trapp worked as a school teacher. Pulic cannot go in here.

Venice

Mail delivery

Murals on Church Building

Borono - an island of Venice

This old man just wouldn't get out of the shot. I kept yelling at him to hurry up but in the end I just had to take the photo with him in it.



Hi everyone,

Wow, only a few more sleeps till Christmas. I hope all your shopping and planning is going well. I've been back in the UK for about a week now and it's getting colder. In the past 6 weeks I've been rained on in Paris, found the mountains alive with the sound of music in Sultzburg, saluted King Wensenslas (not spelt rite) in Prague, followed convention in Geneva, almost drowned in Venice's Grand Canal, been riden over in Amsterdam and stampeded by crowds at the Christmas Markets in Brugge. All in all a good trip I'd say. Here are a few pics

The Square Trees of PARIS

The round houses of PARIS

And the spinning entertainment of PARIS

Notre Dame (at night in the pouring rain)



PRAGUE

A sculpture outside a church

An old graveyard in the jewish quarter that has over 12,000 graves





Saw this flyer in the lift of my hotel - you might need to zoom in - advertising a 'life pianist'. Not quite sure what a 'non life pianist' is.