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SATURDAY: We left our home at about eight in the morning and drove south to Kensington to return some library books before heading north the A1, the modern road that more or less follows the Great North Road , a coaching route formerly used by mail coaches plying between London and Edinburgh . Being a Saturday morning, and relatively early, we moved quickly. After crossing Cambridgeshire, we entered Lincolnshire , and decided to take a break at Belton H…

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This is to introduce my newly published novel. [ Many of you will have received a similar message by mail, so please excuse this repetition . ] My book is called "ALIWAL", and concerns the brief life of a young German Jew who left his home in revolution-torn Bavaria in 1849 to seek his fortunes in the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa). The book describes his long, dangerous journey by sea from London to Cape Town. It continues to relate the events he witnessed wh…

After our two recent trips to Portugal, I became interested to see what remained of the more than 400 years of the Portuguese occupation of the state of Goa on India's west coast. So, in mid-July 2010, we set off by car from Bangalore to spend about one week in Goa. MONDAY: We set off at 5.30 a.m. in our Toyota Qualis driven by our driver, Rahim. Within an hour we had reached Nellamangala at the edge of the Bangalore conurbation. We sped up the National Highway towards Hubli i…

This is to promote my forthcoming novel. It's in its last stages before being published: http://yameyamey.blogspot.com/

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/15/iceland-volcano-weather-french-revolution How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution Profound effects of eight-month eruption in 1783 caused chaos from US to Egypt, say experts Greg Neale guardian.co.uk , Thursday 15 April 2010 18.11 BST Article history Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic f…

The London Transport Museum has made a number of wonderful films about London's transport. These films, specially made during the last century between 1910 and 1970, are wonderful records of London as it used to be. Most of them were made by leading film directors. You can see them online at http://www.ltmcollection.org/films/index.html

My pictures of the city of Porto are together in a new album ... https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/171374

I wish you all a very Happy Christmas , and a great New Year ! Adam in Bangalore, India.

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What you walk on can often be very interesting visually. There is much art in laying paving stones, and often there are fascinating patterns to be recorded. Likewise for carpets, and tiled floors, not to mention the variety of wooden parquet floors. Lower your eyes, and click away, then send your pics to the new group: ___ UNDER FOOT __ https://www.ipernity.com/group/130568

I will be away 17 Oct - 28 Oct. So, I won't be accessing the Internet much, if at all, during that period.

See: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/23583/album/140530

A description of our road trip to some towns north of the Indian city of Bangalore in July 2009. This is a tale of temples and mosques, and monkeys and pigs.

I just noticed that the 55555 th visit to my Ipernity site has just occurred. Many Thanks for your interest and encouragement!

Recently, I visited the university city of Oxford , just west of London. I found the Botanical Gardens very interesting. Please share my impressions by clicking on : https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/117724

Please take a look at my pictures of Kew Gardens, in London : https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/115630