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From boats to the Bullring
... jacket potatoes, garlic bread, burgers, pretzels stuffed with all sorts of fillings, both sweet and savoury and the hot roasted chestnuts.
There were craft stalls with things made from wire, keyrings, knitted goods, reindeer skins, things for the garden, soaps in the shape of fruit. We stopped for drinks at the top end by the museum and then headed through the small shopping arcade and looked at the food ...
Day 12
... kind of sound and would later play a few songs with Mumford. Next was Piff the Magic Dragon. A comedian/magician, with a moonwalking dog and a pretty decent act. Then Mumford in typical Mumford style turned the Arena into modern day hoedown. The sounded absolutely amazing something the said they feared would be lost in such a big venue Around 15,000 capacity. There performance was immaculate, from the lights to the set list, they had everyone in the stadium on there ...
Wonderful Waxwings
... areas of the northern hemisphere, where people are probably a rare site, they have a surprising tendency to turn up in unexpected and thoroughly un-widernessy areas. Look for them in Tesco car parks, outside KFCs and on business and industrial parks and don't expect to see them during a pleasant rural stroll. There's a reason. They are not the chavs of the bird world. They don't like to break in to unattended cars. However the sort of places that they are seen ...
Here I go
Having been super organise & packed on Wednesday, found myself with time to spare on Thursday but with the storms & flooding John wanted so set off in plenty of time just in case....
& there was certainly plenty of standing traffic on the way & then the rain started in earnest just as we pulled into the carpark!! Not easy saying goodbye to John...especially given I am off to enjoy sunshine in Australia while he copes with the horrible weather ...
We've been and come back!
... an Indian transit visa which we were unaware we had to have to pass through Delhi airport. Only luck saved us, as Pete read in the news paper the week before that we would have been sent home if we didn't have one! You cannot get one on arrival, so this meant a frantic week of sending our passports by courier to the Indian consulate in London and paying someone to sort things out for us. After spending seemingly endless hours in New Delhi airport, we flew to Kathmandu ...