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Click to enlarge Another Shot from Bo-Kaap. This is again untweaked – these are the colours straight from the camera. I broke my usual rule on not photographing people on mobile phones with this shot – because the colours worked, and the phone is not visible, indeed it could just be his finely turned calves…
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I have learned two new things in the last 24 hours about Madrid. (1). Always order a drink first if dining in a tapas bar/restaurant. Wait until the free tapas arrives. Then order another drink, and then later, the food. If in the English way you order food, then a drink, you don’t seem to…
Ducatos – better than a vacation
“A vacation is an occasional pleasure but a Ducatos is always a smoke”. A rough smoke, agreed, but at least it’s handy. Taken outside CentroCentro, Madrid, with credit to Rudyard Kipling for his (no longer PC) original line. ←PreviousThe nightmare of the FBTsNextThe Madrid path to perfection→
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The Jubilee Thames Pageant – Photos
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