Unusual or different

The Christmas lights this year on Calle de Alcala, Madrid, Spain

Abandoned in the late 19th century, it was active only for a few decades, with varying degrees of success.

I can't now remember how this came about but I liked it and tarted it up a bit in editing. Originally done in 2013 and first posted in ipernity in 2017.

Somewhere over the Bay of Biscay

I think I leant out even further from the edge for this one!!! Not for the vertiginous! Even so, full screen works best!

I enjoyed my few trips on the teleferico in the past couple of years.

Still mushroom in shape but not quite as mushroomy as seen from the other side and in some previous photos uploaded here. Sierra de La Cabrera, Madrid Province.

Passing over the Casa de Campo. An empty cabin passing the other way. I teach, or have taught, Business English at the top of all the tall buildings on the skyline.

A very enjoyable corner crack climb which I did back in 1978. Right Angle is a famous climb at a modest HS E4 grade but that was near my upper limit and this was the best climb I had done at that time. What you see here is only the final third of the climb. The first two thirds comprise an interesting long traverse downwards to the foot of the crack. Gurnard's Head, Zennor, Cornwall

Moggaraz is a very pleasant (and touristy) town in the Sierra de Francia, Salamanca Province. All of Its 300 odd inhabitants in 1967 agreed to have their photos taken and large-scale paintings were taken from those photos and placed on the walls of their homes, some years later. Whether you find this strange or superb, it it is certainly different! Whoever pitched this concept to these naturally conservative and cautious country folk must have been a sales genius!

Trereen Dinas South, Porthcurno area

Granite forms just below El Cancho Largo, La Sierra de La Cabrera. Just seen in the far distance, Penalara - the highest summit in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Additional note in 2022; this interesting structure crashed to earth sometime in 2013. So yes, not wise to have been standing under it ! I was sceptical of those members that thought it looked precarious. I was wrong!

Please enlarge to see the granite detail. It's not perfect but this is definitely a favourite of mine. Photo from 2011.

Two more rocks in eternal love! www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/45971390/in/album/1040438 Trying to work out which one is the male! Sierra de La Cabrera.

Situated between Porthcurno and Land's End, a tiny fishing hamlet and beach.

Las Agujas de Cancho Gordo, La Sierra de La Cabrera. Madrid is down there, under a thick blanket of fog,

Like an oil painting.

La Bola del Mundo in the Sierra de Guadarrama from El Pardo, northwest of Madrid. This mountain was thought at one time by the residents of Madrid to be the highest mountain in the world! It isn't even the tallest mountain in the Sierra de Guadarrama! (Z please!). Photo taken in May 2013, regardless of the exif date!