Parting Shots

A final few, fairly random but still fabulous photos from NYC....

 The Rose Reading Room - New York Public Library

Bryant Park

Rockefeller Center

Murals at the Rockefeller Center

Banksy 'Hammer Boy'  - W79th St/Amsterdam Ave

Tristan Eaton's 'Liberty Mural' - Little Italy

Shutters on a bar in the Meatpacking District

Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Spot the interloper

Hot dogs from Gray's Papaya on 72nd St

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So, it's good bye to New York for now....
Next up, Iceland!

Beach Therapy

If there is a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached to it 
Jimmy Buffett

New Year In Thailand

Hey everyone! How are you all doing? Hope you had a fabulous New Year...

I spent mine eating my own body weight in satay chicken and Pad Thai, watching fireworks and Chinese lanterns lighting up the Andaman Sea, and dancing barefoot on the beach... not a bad way to see in 2014!

 Fire dancers

Note to self: this long dress (currently at the dry cleaners) is perhaps not the best attire for dancing barefoot on the beach until the wee hours....

More on my Thailand holiday to follow....

Les Fleurs des Alpes

With my trip to the Alps planned for late summer, I had not expected to see that many flowers still out.... but given the late Spring in Europe this year, and the high altitudes we were walking at, luckily there were still plenty of pretty and unusual blossoms around.....

Had to share this pretty beetle too!

Sign in a park in Chamonix

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud...

I never did get round to showing you some photos of the Lake District, did I? I spent a very happy weekend there back in early June, hiking with a group of friends.


We stayed in a very comfy B&B in Ambleside, aptly named 'The WaterWheel'....

On the Saturday, we hiked all day along a route known as The High Road....

 Part of the old Roman road

 Group shot - I'm lurking on the far left in the blue tee

A gentler walk on the Sunday, from Ambleside to Grasmere, exploring some caves en route....

Happy days!