Photographs

Today’s photo:Torre de Belém at dawn. A long exposure shot taken at the Belem tower in Lisbon as the sun rose, and before the tourists arrived. It was taken in March this year, and  reminds me what a wonderful spot Lisbon is. Must get back there pronto. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button…

Today’s photo:You’ll appreciate our high-speed checkout facilities. Shot in the glamorous Erith waterfront on the Thames estuary. A four minute long exposure shot featuring one of the many items of supermarket hardware to be found in the river at this point. I have a few more of these to come – I recently discovered that…

Today’s photo:The Lonely Tuba player. I was surprised to see a full marching band in Waterloo station recently, all dressed up in Ruritanian-style uniforms. Alone at the back was this single tuba player, and from my angle he looked completely isolated. The morose passengers nearby were also fairly unimpressed.  It would take a full-scale Martian…

The fashion dummies just can’t make their minds up.  Shot in Salamanca, Madrid on my way to El Corte Ingles (the Spanish Harrods, and meaning “the English cut”) for lunch. This is the swish Madrid equivalent of Knightsbridge, or Mayfair, although nicer ( and at the moment, warmer).

There is a lot of sitting done in Madrid, and a fair bit of watching. The gent on the left was there when I set off to see a few galleries and have lunch, and he was still there when I came back 3 hours later. Even though beer is amazingly cheap in restaurants, there…

“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.