09-11-2014 Sunday USA Trip Day 3

More walking and site seeing and shopping…..but at a more leisurely pace

The Washington mall, White House, Pentagon Mall (shopping), beer , first outdoor ice rink, watched some of the Sunday afternoon American football game taking place at Wembley in London, Pentagon 9/11 Memorial and out to my Marillion mate Ricks for dinner. Home cooked Chicken and mac ‘n cheese.

He was most impressed I was at the Six of the Best gig, I was impressed I got a bootleg recording! Cheers Rick.

During the day we…

had a long chat, standing in the middle of the Concert for Valour gig venue, to a security guard about Washington and the gig. His advice was be somewhere else as 800,000 – 1,000,000 were due to arrive.

and the Pentagon Memorial is very moving. The seats for each victim are in rows for birth year, youngest 3 oldest around 70. Their names are engraved in the open end of the seat. The direction of the seat also has significance and is very moving! We got there as the sun was setting so the Autumn leaves cast a nice colouring. Wish we had seen at night!

08-11-2014 Saturday USA Trip Day 2

Went off exploring Washington after meeting our host. A lovely lady.

Walked everywhere. Started at the Eastern Market  and then saw the Capitol, the mall, American Monument, some marching band competition, WWII memorial, Reflecting pool, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National cemetery (JFK site and the unknown soldier).

Caught Metro back, as it was a long way, then went for food and beer!

Knackered!

07-11-2014 Friday USA Trip Day 1

Having my 6th and 7th flight of the week. A four day business trip to Sweden used up flights 1 – 5!
Was up very early for trip to Brum airport. I only left ther e only 8 hours earlier.
Tipped it down on the way there.
Arrived and checked in the car and took the bus to the airport, checked in and had easy path through all the scanners. We were on our way to the USA via Dublin.

At Dublin we had breakfast, went through the USPC (United States Pre Clearance) took all of 10 mins and boarded flight.


Off we went, 8 hours of movie watching. For everyone else, yes. Me no. The screen worked, the sound worked, but the audio failed. The audio is delivered separately so they can have different languages. All languages failed. No subtitles either, No spare seats for me to move to except up front, and no that was not allowed! Bored. Very bored. Managed to watch one film while little miss was asleap.

Arrived in Washington, and just walked out of the airport, how easy was that! Caught a bust to the end of the Metro, battled with the ticket machine and went off into Washington. It was a long time….

Checked in at our AirBnB accommodation and all was fine, great room.

Went out for some beers and food. Little miss was ID’d but she is now 21 so that’s good!

Back to room to sleep it off. Knackered

2014-10-11–Nottingham Beer Festival

A very fine day…..
Lots of fine music, weather and BEEERRRRRRR…..

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Short vid of the pics!

October 2014–Iceland Trip (The Videos)

The Stutter videos

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Slow (edited pictures)

October 2014–Iceland Trip

Day 1

An early start at 3:30 AM

First stop Blue Lagoon

Cold beer, warm water. Later it rained but was still very relaxing!

Day 2

Day 2 just a "stumble" around Reykjavik , It was cold and windy, then went pleasant but cold!

Snow capped mountains in the back ground.

The view from the top was stunning

A Whale of a meal (whale on the left)


World famous Iceland Hot Dogs! Bill Clinton had one then had to be taken to hospital. Nothing to do with the hot dog!

Pearlan. Water storage for the city with a rotating restaurant at the top. The Christmas shop had these characters


Yoou can go outside and the views were great. Inside there is a mini Gyser!


Reflected in the dome is the restaurant!

Day 3

The Golden Circle.
As Doolie, our tour guide said, this is the first day of winter. Snow was not around yesterday.

We had all weathers. Snow, Rain, Gales, Sun. Always cold though and the stunning scenery made it worth wile, as did the humorous Doolie!

I was hoping for a Youtube moment!

Gullfoss waterfall

Gyser

A water fall at the original Parliment. This is on the edge of the American plate which is exposed to the world!


Silliness. In the "Whats On" book, one of the challenges was to be a Viking, by eating Ice Cream in the rain.

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