HFF

Rodochiton and garage door in need of a paint job (which I did on my next visit!).

Taken from a balcony of a previous flat. I will post another shot soon which might, but only might, shed some light on what this is! And even though I have included it in HFF, don't let that fool you!

Just realised I should saved it for a Friday! Oh well!

My Mum's garden again! For Pam and for Rashid who seems to really appreciate my mum's garden!

I broke the law. This shot is taken from the railway tracks! However, there was a crossing point here, roughly in line with the Roman road, and I was surprised to see it blocked off (the reult of an unfortunate accident maybe? But probably just offialdom). I wasn't going to retrace my steps and add another hour to my journey,so I climbed over the fences, trespassed on the tracks and saw this for HFF with the palace monastery of El Escorial as a backdrop!!

The Palace of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and a fence with a nice 'sweep'.

This motorway slices the univerity in Madrid completely in two with just this footbridge linking the two sections of a vast campus area. The unused cenral lane is almost certainly a dedicated cycle lane.

That fence and tree again!

Another classic fence (I don't include the wall in my fence definition, only the posts and wire). And another favourite tree.

Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid Province

Metro and mainline station, Madrid

Madrid; Rio Manzanares, Teleférico and cathedral.

Not the most exciting of fences but I saw there was a distant view of the sea and St Agnes Beacon which I wasn't expecting from this low down on the slopes of Carn Marth and I think the proportions just about pass muster..

Principe Pio metro and mainline station, Madrid. 2 metro trains are below. I waited for as long as I could but I couldn't get main line and metro trains to co-incide! Sight and Sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoESxVt81h0 Love in Vain lyrics (Robert Johnson, as re-arranged by Jagger and Richards), Well I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand Yeah, I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand Whoa, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell When all your love's in vain When the train come in the station I looked her in the eye Well the train come in the station And I looked her in the eye Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome That I could not help but cry When the train left the station It had two lights on behind Yeah, when the train left the station It had two lights on behind Whoa, the blue light was my baby And the red light was my mind All my love was in vain All my love's in vain

Metro Station, Madrid. Station recently renamed. Was called Campo de Las Naciones, now called Ifema (the name of the nearby National Exhibition Centre).

'Open-plan'. Metro and mainline, trains, tracks and passengers (not to mention shopping mall, food hall, cinema complex - the usual suspects) all sharing the same 90s designed space. It actually works very well imho. All built within the old mainline terminus of the Estaciòn del Norte (you can see the impressive ironmongery of the old terminus at the top). Sight and sound. Just like it and always have ever since I first heard it every morning stuck in a traffic jam on the M40 into London. Silly video but great pop song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ

A wall, a few rudimentary fences and a stile on the Southwest Peninsula Coast Path, Near Basset Cove, Cornwall

Arcaded outer perimeter of the Nuevos Ministerios buildings designed by Secundino Zuazo in the 1920s. Work started in the early 30s, was delayed by the civil war and resumed under Franco who changed the design to suit his own more conservative tastes.