Chemainus is a community in the Chemainus Valley on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island. The community was founded as a logging town in 1858, and has an fascinating industrial history. Logging and machining of timber is only a […]
Places
There are 8 exhibitions/studios available in and around Bruton and 5 in and around Castle Cary. Not all were open today but of those that were the highlights, for me, were Photographer, Mark Pickthall at his Studio in Bruton and the […]
The exhibition Otto Dix: The Evil Eye, on display at the Tate, Liverpool, is a collection of portraits taken in Germany between 1919 and 1933. The photographer’s philosophy was that the subliminal messages received from people’s facial expressions, clothing and surroundings […]
A visit to Knightshayes Court with Susie and Pete and Liz Williams. Knightshayes is a Country House near Tiverton. It is a very elegant, grade I listed building in a lovely parkland setting. The house is notable, architecturally, for both […]
Some views of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, Siberia. It rained in Ulan-Ude in the early morning but the rain did nothing to cool the temperature. A very happy, animated accordianist played in one of the squares […]
The 240km bus trip to Ulan-Ude passed through forest roads alongside Lake Baikal. It was along this very beautiful section of the Lake that we said goodbye to the Baikalsee and made our way towards the city. Proshchay Baykal’se (Goodbye Baikalsee). […]
Today we were free all day and so Margit, Hellmut, Hermann and I hired bikes and explored the port and some of the sandy roads through the forest to the shores of the Lake. The sandy firetracks through the conifer […]
The Barguzin Valley is a remote and wild river valley on the east side of Lake Baikal. The Barguzin River is 480 kilometres (300 mi) long, flowing into the Barguzin Bay of Lake Baikal at Ust-Barguzin. The geomorphology of the valley is […]
Our first, distant, view of Olchon Island. Our coach trip across the steppes and forests ended at Maloje More (Little Sea) for a short ferry crossing to the Island. On the Island we boarded Russian, 4×4 minibuses which sped down the […]
12
Page 1 of 2