Month: October 2006
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Pictures of the Cotswolds
1577 This was a walk over a period of four or five days in 2004 – our first year in the UK. A group of Marina’s friends came over, which was nice, and they walked across the hills, from pub to pub. These are not new pictures – just moved from the old site for…
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Budapest
1275 I had been to Moscow once, but the rest of the family had never been to any country that was once part of the USSR until our trip to Budapest. It’s an interesting mix. Still lots of Soviet-era buildings, but the people have removed all the statues reflecting the brutalist style of the Soviet…
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Mountain School Family Camp
1305 It’s a long time ago now. When the boys were small, they attended a wonderful pre-school just up the hill from us in Los Gatos. The characteristics of the school were an outdoorsy, robust approach to life, with lovely nurturing staff. But one of the main things was that it was all about parental…
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Integrating my photo blog
I have maintained a separate page and blog for my thoughts about digital photography, but it’s hard to keep more than a couple of sites active and interesting, so I’m going to incorporate my comments on photography in this blog. The first thing I’ll do is re-post the old articles here, and then in the…