tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41349620785614930742024-03-13T19:13:49.110-04:00The Adventures of Steve and AllieFollow the madcap adventures of Steve and Allie as they travel the world or tend their goat farm in Hancock, NH.The Adventures of Steve and Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038623007617884448noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134962078561493074.post-47873856147098584952015-02-23T18:06:00.001-05:002015-02-23T18:06:13.120-05:00A Brief RestWe've arrived at our friends', Greg and Christine, home for a few days. It is a very welcome respite after our long travels and fun to be at a place we've spent many days in the past. The Tropical Cyclone Marcia, which hit hundreds of miles north of us, has roused up the surf and the water isn't safe for swimming. The beach, a few hundred feet away, is beautiful as ever and we enjoy walking along it.<br />
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It is far more humid than we've experienced to date but that is to be expected with this region at this time of year. Actually it is humid year-round, just changes in temperature. I expect this is much like the Georgia/South Carolina coasts in summer.<br />
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We will be here a few more days and then travel to our final destination, Garth and Denise's home just outside Brisbane for a couple of days before we fly out. This vacation has gone by far too fast, but that is always the case in Australia.<br />
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Tallow Beach, Suffolk Park, NSW</div>
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A Quiet Afternoon on the Beach</div>
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Tallow Estuary</div>
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Looking Toward Cape Byron Light</div>
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Walking the Dog</div>
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A Lone Tree</div>
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Storm Clouds Near Cowra, NSW</div>
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Lake Hume, Albury, NSW</div>
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Reaching For Rains</div>
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Sorry for the delay, getting reliable internet still is a challenge in Australia.</div>
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We’ve gone from Melbourne to Daylesford to Echuca/Tongala to Mansfield to Seymour to Beechworth. </div>
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We spent a night in Daylesford, a very nice spa town northwest of Melbourne famous for second homes of the city’s residents trying to escape the heat and one of our favorites as it isn’t too chic (much like New London NH as compared to Woodstock VT). We spent some time at the weekly flea market where we saw some beautiful pie cabinets but when asked if he ships, the local craftsman simply said “You buy it and take it with you.” Oh well.</div>
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Then off to Echuca, home of the Murray River Steamboats (which weren’t running as the river level is so low due to the drought) and a nice and cold air-conditioned motel room as the outside temperature was 40C or 104F. The next day was spent with an old friend of Allie’s who she worked with 25 years ago. They had much catching up to do (and they did), but the sunset was pretty.</div>
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Then down many a puzzling road, the most direct route according to our Garmin GPS, Sheila, to Mansfield, one of the most beautiful places at the feet of the Victorian Alps. Easily a place we could settle. I lucked out in accommodation as we had a swank B&B to ourselves for a night. We drove the countryside, went up the local ski area, Mt. Buller, and walked our feet off having a ball.</div>
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Then to Seymour, not much to see except for the Seymour Alternative Farming Exposition, although what is alternative I have yet to figure. We went there four years ago and had such a wonderful time, we decided to do it again. A bit warm at 35C/95F but we walked away with more knowledge, and even more regrets we don’t live here in Australia. A quick (2 1/2) drive up to Beechworth and here we are for the night.</div>
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Beechworth is Victoria’s quintessential high plains/near alpine town frozen in time. Quaint, charming, chock full of history and period homes, tourist mecca, and full of local boutiques, Beechworth is well worth the stop.</div>
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Tomorrow we’re off to the North. We’ve three days to get to our friends in Suffolk Park, New South Wales (next to Byron Bay) and I’m not yet sure which route we’ll take. Probably to Cowra then Armidale then Suffolk Park, but who knows.</div>
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Downtown Beechworth</div>
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Seymour Farm Expo</div>
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Looking Southeast from Mt. Buller</div>
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Victorian Alpine Detail</div>
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Rough Road Atop Mt. Buller</div>
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Mansfield Gum at Dawn</div>
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Mansfield Dawn</div>
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"Our" Digs in Mansfield</div>
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Our first full day was full of figuring out the train travel to the city, walking our poor feet off, and then a simple one hour cruise up and down the Yarra river which runs through the city. Then a rewarding beer under a bridge in a bar designed for that purpose and full of trolls (not really the troll part). Fish and chips dinner, a delightful conversation with our hosts, Jim and Karen, and then bed.</div>
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Our second day was spent with a very dear friend who drove us to her favorite place, Cape Scanck, on the Mornington Peninsula, where we hike for about three hours in sunshine and a nice sea breeze. Then lunch at a very Italian pizzeria, where English is definitely a second language where we talked for another couple of hours. Then sadly back to Melbourne and our goodbyes.</div>
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Sailing of Cape Schanck</div>
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Mornington Countryside</div>
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Where the Land Meets the Sea</div>
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On the Yarra River</div>
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The Eureka Tower</div>
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Colorful Melbourne Alley</div>
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The Adventures of Steve and Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038623007617884448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134962078561493074.post-91251335839035348292015-02-11T16:41:00.003-05:002015-02-11T16:41:59.189-05:00Last Day in New ZealandWell, it has been quite an adventure! We've driven all over kingdom come, sampled some great wines, especially the Pinot Noir 2009 at Brennans Vineyard, and even taken a flight around a local mountain.<br />
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Allie has created a gardening monster in Amanda, who is up every morning now at 6 to check the gardens and have time alone before the 3 year-old Dexter starts his daily routine of noise. We've given Randy and Amanda some very concrete ideas and plans and hopefully they will happen.<br />
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Our feet are getting itchy to go to our beloved Australia (two hours until the bus takes us to the Queenstown airport), but we have come to know New Zealand much better and its very British quiet charm and its ever present splendor.<br />
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It is going to be a long day today; bus to Queenstown, flight from there to Christchurch, change planes and fly to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pick up our reserved rental car, and then drive to our accommodations just outside the city center. We'll be relying on our Garmin GPS, Sheila, to help with the last bit.<br />
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So without further ado, here are some images you might enjoy!<br />
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Mt. Aspriring North Side</div>
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Still Flying!</div>
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Alpacas by Lake Hawea</div>
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Solitude at Lake Wanaka</div>
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Night Sky over Randy and Amanda's</div>
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Boundary Creek in Wanaka</div>
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Stillness of Lake Hawea</div>
<br />The Adventures of Steve and Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038623007617884448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134962078561493074.post-13401295602046908002015-02-07T00:20:00.001-05:002015-02-07T00:20:25.097-05:00Work and Play<span style="font-size: large;">As one of the purposes of our visit to Randy and Amanda's was to help out, we've been working like gangbusters. I think they are a bit amazed as they thought we would simply come and vacation. Fat chance. We're up at 6am ready to go, same as at home. It is a bit difficult as they are all night owls here and we have to tip-toe around to get the kettle boiling for morning tea (I have to go into town to get coffee).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still, Allie has totally renovated the garden, rearranged lots of plants, bushes, and even a couple of trees and I have been cutting and hauling brush and cleaning out an old chicken coop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so we've enjoyed an afternoon at the Lake Hawea hotel with very good food and beer, followed by a drive up the lake. This morning I took their van up to New Zealand's highest maintained road and photographed the Remarkable Mountain range, which border Lake Wakatipu. Then back to the property to do more clearing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are having a great time and here are some photos to make all of you jealous! Just kidding.</span><br />
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Pastoral Bannockburn New Zealand</div>
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Cows Happily Grazing Along Lake Hawea</div>
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Cyclist Heading Down into Nevis Valley</div>
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Bunny Rock and the Remarkables</div>
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Big Rocks and Little Rocks</div>
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On the Shore of Lake Hawea</div>
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View From Duffers Saddle, Nevis Road</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>The Adventures of Steve and Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038623007617884448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134962078561493074.post-54831633316879913212015-02-05T00:36:00.003-05:002015-02-05T00:36:56.597-05:00From the Land of the Long White Cloud<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who do not know, New Zealand is known as the land of the long white cloud, the Maori word for the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We are helping an old classmate of Steve's named Randy and his wife Amanda get established as a B&B in their rustic organic farm here in Hawea, an hour or so from Queenstown. Allie is helping get the garden tip-top and I'm doing some manual labor but mostly coming up with creative solutions to getting the structure and outbuildings of the farm functional. That and taking lots of photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was a long two days getting here from Hancock via Boston, San Francisco, Auckland, and Queenstown and we are finally over the exhaustion. Randy and Amanda have a beautiful place in a fantastic location and work hard to get things going in this place they bought that was in fairly run-down condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We've already been a few places in two days and I'll try to accurately list them: Queenstown where we flew into and then took a gondola up to a restaurant and extreme sporting venue (odd combination but it works), Cromwell, the stone-fruit capitol of New Zealand which has a very nice restored old town area, Alexandra, a farming town with places to buy all the supplies they need for the farm, the Nevis Valley which is wild and remote and only accessible by a dirt track, and Wanaka, a very popular town on a namesake lake only 12 miles away. Oh, and I took some photos, so enjoy!</span><br />
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Auckland Airport Sunrise</div>
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View of Queenstown from the Gondola Restaurant</div>
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Randy and Amanda's House</div>
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Dawn at Randy's Farm</div>
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<br />The Adventures of Steve and Alliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17038623007617884448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134962078561493074.post-22107413832212251802014-04-25T02:15:00.001-04:002014-04-25T02:15:17.487-04:00Venice - Day Four<div><br></div><div>After a rather restless night because of mosquitoes, we had a leisurely breakfast on the hotel balcony on the Grand Canal. If we can, we'll do it again as it was so much fun!</div><div><br></div><div>We then trekked over to the Basilica San Marco and joined the cast of thousands waiting to get in. The wait was better than it could have been and St. Mark's Basilica lived up to its reputation. The best Byzantine mosaics this side of Istanbul! The best part was the museum up on the second floor as we were very close to those mosaics and it was fabulous. That, and the commanding view over the Piazza San Marco.</div><div><br></div><div>From there we bought tickets for the vapporetto, the Venice boat bus, and cruised the Grand Canal in leisurley fashion, if not style. After disembarking at the piazalle de Roma, we walked a bit, had lunch and the got back on the vapporetto to go to San Giorgio Maggiore. Not knowing the routes, we couldn't figure out how to get there so we took the one to the stop closest to our hotel and took naps.</div><div><br></div><div>Knowing that time was short, as we leave in the morning, we did the obligatory gondola ride. A little bit of the Grand Canal and then weaving our way through the quieter back canals. This was the best for us as it took us into the real Venice. Then dinner at a great place on a small canal and then bed.</div><div><br></div><div>No, we never did get to Padua. 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Of course not! We walked our feet off once more, traipsing down to the Rialto fish and fruit markets, which close at noon. From there we went down to the train station to check on the frequency and price of trains to Padua (or Padova as it is known locally). Taking a new direction, we found ourselves in the Jewish Ghetto, but not really caring for kosher pizza, we left and found a very tranquil place along a canal used for cargoes and small families.</div><div><br></div><div>From there, we walked towards San Marco in order to get to the Accademia Bridge over the Grand Canal and to our hotel. A rest was urgently in order.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4w02bDkhb7pNJxi-_rVDh5nhIj_UPRnxFzvDhyk1AkATUdrpCvOEvFXLcHi0CZ4NEzu-HyI-JDyzp8BCOhww54j3cVGAOnMIouhyYfN8tJF8-tIw01Vd0Q4AAhyphenhyphenOwzLqxG8ZZgMm98ZV/s640/blogger-image-252763870.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4w02bDkhb7pNJxi-_rVDh5nhIj_UPRnxFzvDhyk1AkATUdrpCvOEvFXLcHi0CZ4NEzu-HyI-JDyzp8BCOhww54j3cVGAOnMIouhyYfN8tJF8-tIw01Vd0Q4AAhyphenhyphenOwzLqxG8ZZgMm98ZV/s640/blogger-image-252763870.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A foggy day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5FriFVBk-L_Sbag_rubRre0f9nEmLG5sXw-60SjsbF73RS_5-FP6WsiyHfzycKQdgKb-CDh0Guo6bKNbeZ4g6Y_Lcx-CP13y4PhPYwo3-6y-uspx76ardOIfsJd477zt0p4_-uMal5YM/s640/blogger-image-1830526395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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After a dawn out by the Salute point, we trekked over to San Marco and boarded our tour boat for the islands of Murano, Burano, and Torcello.</div><div><br></div><div>It was a beautiful day and we felt it money we'll spent. I cannot say we learned much as the tour guide's talk was hampered by a bad sound system and engine noise. However, the islands were great to visit, especially Torcello whose pace of life was much more like ours at home.</div><div><br></div><div>Once back in Venice, we had lunch and now fortified, we strolled the lanes and alleys and enjoyed the sights. Finding ourselves in Piazza San Marco, we decidedon a whim to go through the Doge's Palace. It is like a cross between Versailles and the Vatican, with a touch of the a Tower of London's prison thrown in. As photos are mostly forbidden, you either have to visit or find some book on it to see what I mean.</div><div><br></div><div>If that was't enough, we saw that the line to the Campanile (Bell Tower) wasn't very long so we took the elevator up and enjoyed the view. Windy and cold and full of obnoxious German teenagers. It was not as good as I hoped, but still fun.</div><div><br></div><div>Tomorrow we find our was to the train station for a trip to the nearby university town of Padua.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvuRd3dqDEHOyzrQB0hYJOkpMJxqtFHNJQpFISN0HJfm_AnM2N1ewYmWzpPy9BDOVRgHT8mKK6XIQsjzVKaWSJvxoks9x9q2GWHaV7ItGrp_0gAKDQtMLlkJVLWOeH46pvKC4BQ9Fk_Yv/s640/blogger-image-333530247.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvuRd3dqDEHOyzrQB0hYJOkpMJxqtFHNJQpFISN0HJfm_AnM2N1ewYmWzpPy9BDOVRgHT8mKK6XIQsjzVKaWSJvxoks9x9q2GWHaV7ItGrp_0gAKDQtMLlkJVLWOeH46pvKC4BQ9Fk_Yv/s640/blogger-image-333530247.jpg"></a></div>Before the Dawn</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRw2Bl8y-jP15bkO-Vivs_mi_Z8YYHNVV-kodJ6i9K4dnXeiQeY5v6VUDxzTNAqJlhUwBBAOCqnRtZJybfNWHRz6qqeEchNoJWh-H2BZh4bZt7GS2p2LgNm1dMd_Ihj-t8S9x4GfCaF5d/s640/blogger-image-1472488435.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Even my photos cannot capture it. Venice is a place you have to experience. It is that simple. For someone who dislikes crowds, even the throngs of tourists do not diminish the magic of this place. Nor do the countless shops selling garish and ugly Carnivale masks and cheap Chinese glass masquerading as Murano glass or the hundreds do African men hawking knockoff bags and purses right outside Louis Vitton shops.</span></div><div><br></div><div>As this is day one for us in Venice, we have not yet been inside any museums or art galleries, but I already know what makes this city special for me. Venice is like a masterpiece painting or sculpture that is alive. It truly is like being inside a work of art. It is both alive and static, it is creation, existence, and decay at the same time. Everywhere you look there is beauty.</div><div><br></div><div>As a piece of art, I can view the cruise ships and crowds as if they were people looking at Venice like a sculpture, oohing and aahing and then leaving to look at something else. We who get to stay here experience the city in a very different way.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYiKfW8XRG_u6F8oQupAG5Zk3OevLj-IJRXM7paMt-UC3KHXwt_1yLylxhkbimIPUD-BO7grXO_PMELIqeoGOtMwLFP-88-a5gxZpWSKI0MebiixSMXMdj024veaRpTbN7EFNL-5jZLjZ/s640/blogger-image--1225238904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYiKfW8XRG_u6F8oQupAG5Zk3OevLj-IJRXM7paMt-UC3KHXwt_1yLylxhkbimIPUD-BO7grXO_PMELIqeoGOtMwLFP-88-a5gxZpWSKI0MebiixSMXMdj024veaRpTbN7EFNL-5jZLjZ/s640/blogger-image--1225238904.jpg"></a></div>San Giorgoio Maggiore from San Marco</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEido1sZiunI1-cHZGi8uo3TwLKejUHy3HBJR_8bfJGcDFn8Yjlm2ouAKmX6CQqL-8gg2FNNoWCUXKfIVYR8-vzoEZPiB8E81mxpxcNK4J4Ss95gbGd1cpRmdq2Wwb8cWonGHr29WhceJfOx/s640/blogger-image--1311465748.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The weather was vastly improved, of course, now that we couldn't avail ourselves of it. Still we did see some sheep enjoying themselves and the like.<br />
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The traffic was much greater than when Peter picked us up on the Sunday of the 12th, however, we made good time and checked into the various hotels in Shannon. As Peter was continuing to his home via Limerick he asked if I'd like a ride there and I could take a taxi back. I took him up on his offer and I had fun wandering around this historic city, which is only 900 or so years old (not counting the Viking settlement 300 years older than that) and then came back to the hotel.<br />
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As I have an early morning flight, I'm outta here! Hope you all had fun reading the blog.<br />
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King John's Castle</div>
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Peter gave us the option of going to another place or returning to the hotel and we went to the Arriff Bridge over the Owenmore River. It was our last stop of the day and possibly the workshop and it was one of the best of the entire trip. Huge gnarled oak gr</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oves and a river to boot. Very, very moody in the clouds and a perfect end to this desolate part of Ireland.</span></pre>
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Old Head Vista</div>
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Looking to Sea</div>
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Oak Grove Slope</div>
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Gone to History</div>
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Arriff Bridge</div>
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Next was Pontoon and Lough Conn and Lough Cullin. Again, I was less than inspired. Finally a long drive back to the hotel in Westport. At least that was interesting! I shot around the hotel and it was fun.<br />
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Lastly, the sunset shoot at Bertra Strand we thought might be good was a bust for everyone. Clouds and dismal weather. Hopefully tomorrow, which is our last full day, will be good.<br />
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Tessalated Pavement at Downpatrick Head</div>
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Downpatrick Shore</div>
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Tonight we are in Westport, further up the west coast of Ireland and are officially in Coutny Mayo, no longer County Connemara. We had a thankfully light day as I am still a bit weak and have spells of fever as my body is flushing out the illness. Very, very light meals have helped.</div>
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We stopped at some falls just outside Leenane where people were fly fishing in the rain, then further up at a place we had been before but the light was different, then finally at a beach in the driving rain.</div>
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By then we had had enough of the rain and came straight to Westport after stopping for a light lunch at the foot of Craigh Patrick, the holy mountain of Ireland where St. Patrick did some miracles. It is a huge pilgrimage place and thousands come to climb the mountain in all weather, like today. That's devotion!</div>
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After dropping off our bags we drove into Westport proper and explored the town and picked up some supplies. Then back and we finally have good internet in the hotel!</div>
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Aasleagh Falls and Fisherman</div>
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Horse by Aasleagh Falls</div>
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Doo Lough</div>
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Silver Strand</div>
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Now, for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say. This day I spent alternatively in the bathroom or the bed of the hotel. I had gotten some mild form of food poisoning and my body was just not happy about it and to put it delicately, both ends were busy. Thankfully it lasted only about 24-30 hours so I was fit to travel the next day. So while everyone else was out enjoying a fantastic weather day, I was inside. Yuck.</div>
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More loughs, overlooks, scenery, and the Cong Abbey, which is a ruined abbey and church in the town of Cong. At the pub we had lunch at, the menus said "Nothing can go wrong in Cong." They lied but that is later in the story.</div>
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Lough Nafooey Cottage</div>
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More sun today, hooray! Still plenty of clouds and rain, though. Although it may have been not much driving, it did seem that there was. We moved from Clifden to Leenane/Leenaun/Lionan (different spelling depending on which sign you were reading) which is on Ireland's only fjord. Frankly it didn't wow me but we shot away from the town so no worry.</div>
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There is a great deal of fly fishing done around here and it is also popular with hikers (and photographers like Peter). There are scenic mountains and "loughs" pronounced "Locks" with a very soft k's, or lakes in normal english.</div>
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Hope springs eternal in Ireland, at least for good weather. Perhaps it is so wet and windy is why they hang out in pubs and write poetry and songs. The sun comes out just enough to fool you into stopping to take photos just to go hide and let the rain pelt down. This may also be one of the reasons so many Irish emigrated to warmer places like Australia.</div>
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Regardless, we stopped at a famous tourist trap, the Kylemore Abbey, which was built by a rich guy for his new bride and not long after either he or she died. Sort of like the Biltmore or the Taj Mahal. It is picturesque and they did have a nice cafe, but it sure was mobbed! I can't even imagine what this place is like in the high tourist season of July and August.</div>
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By Kylemore Abbey</div>
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Inagh Valley</div>
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This was a much, much better day for me physically, although at an even faster pace than yesterday. Again, I have no idea where specifically we were, but again beautiful. The weather has been a serious factor with plenty of Irish wind and rain, so it is rather difficult to keep the camera gear dry and clean.</div>
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This is a bit late in coming as it is really day 6 of a 10 day photography tour in Ireland but until now internet access has been spotty at best. I will also preface this to say I am certifiably nuts to do back to back photography tours and will never do so again. I had just come back from 5 days in the Chinle, Arizona and Monument Valley, Utah area and then off to Ireland. Too much too fast.</div>
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Being that as it may, day one in Ireland was a blur. Peter Cox, our guide and personal friend, sets an aggressive pace and from the greeting me at Shannon Airport until we all stopped (finally) at out hotel in Clifden, County Connemara, it was overwhelming for this jet-lagged soul. </div>
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I will admit that I am remiss in getting the place names for where we photographed, throughout the day and indeed the tour. Irish place names are difficult as Peter usually just says them in Irish and that's that. However, where ever he stops, it is always worth it, even if you don't know its name.</div>
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Editor's note: Tonight Peter sat down with us and gave us the place names!</div>
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On Omey Island</div>
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The Hill of Doon on Lough Corrib</div>
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Up early and out to the airport witout issues and turning in the campervan went surprisingly well. With over four hours before our flight, we went to the Antarctuc Exploration Centre, adjacent the airport.<br />
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We enjoyed the exhibits, the penguins, and most if all the 4D movie. They call it 4D as it is 3D with extra bits such as moving seats, falling snow, and seats that spray water on you like sea spray. That and you don't even have to spend all that money to go to the real place.<br />
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Now we are sitting in the airport waiting to fly to Auckland, San Francisco, and finally Boston.<br />
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Chaos and Courage. Two words that sum up today's Christchurch. Like a prizefighter that has taken two devastating blows, the first on September 4th, 2010 at 4:35 am, and the second on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:51 pm, Christchurch was nearly out for the count. Thankfully, the fight is not over and indeed there are signs that revival will be complete. </div>
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In the meanwhile, the city is a ghost town, a scene out of an apocalyptic movie where no one walks the streets, not even a stray dog. The worst of the damage was to the Central Business District (CBD) and the beloved Cathedral. There is much bickering and fighting over insurance, rebuilding, etc., etc., etc., so not much is happening, except for in those areas that have simply been bulldozed to the ground and are acres of wasteland waiting for investors. That and the City Council has grandiose ideas of a centrally planned city center with all the bells and whistles. For a culture that prides itself on its "Britishness", they sure have nothing on the Brits that braved the Nazi air raids on London and Coventry and how quickly they rebuilt those cities.</div>
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However, there is a bright and shining center of rebirth, Re-Start. Re-Start is simply a slew of cargo containers re-purposed for retail space and it is the thriving hub of the city, central planning be damned! We can only hope that this vitality spreads without restraint.</div>
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And so, we leave on a high note, heading once again homeward. We will miss the balmy temperatures and beauty all around, but home is home, critters and all. Tomorrow we begin the long flights to the good old U S of A!</div>
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The Cathedral Front</div>
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The big thing of the day was the arrival of the Sea Princess, one of the Princess Cruise Liners, into Akaroa harbor. This used to be a rare thing, but since the quakes that devastated Christchurch, they come here. Before, Akaroa had eighteen to twenty cruise ships, last year they had eighty and in 2013 they expect ninety-four! It is a great boom for the town, but it sure gets crowded early and all day. There are scheduled bus tours into Christchurch for the passengers, but most simply walk around like lost puppies.</div>
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Akaroa is the only town of significance on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch. Akaroa means 'long harbor' in Maori and it has one, thanks to the area's birth as a volcano, complete with deep and long fissures. Yesterday we drove from Lake Tekapo to Akaroa via Timaru, Geraldine, and Lincoln. None of those towns were much to speak of and the windy and scary road to Akaroa was one for the books! Still, we arrived safely and today will explore the town at leisure.</div>
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After a lazy start, we ambled straight down to the town. The path, which thankfully has many stairs, is down a very steep slope. We had the town to ourselves, very few shops were open and the tour buses hadn't arrived. It was great, even if finding a coffee shop that was open wasn't to be. We walked the length of town, really small (less than a kilometer long), and enjoyed the small harbor, the gulls, the boats and a calm, unhurried morning. We finally found a coffee shop and then wandered some more. After a bit more exploring and lunch with cheeky seagulls who walked all over the awnings, we trudged back up to the campground and a rest. Tomorrow, probably more of the same - enforced rest!</div>
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We are ready to come home. It has been a trip full of sights and adventures but it isn't home, doesn't feel like home and will never be home. Unlike Australia, which will always be the home of our hearts, even if that isn't reality. :)</div>
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Keeping it ship-shape</div>
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Get the Picture?</div>
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Fixing it after the quakes</div>
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On a bit of a cruise</div>
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