Holiday Snaps 2007

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Zipper » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:15 pm

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby cumbo » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:35 pm

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby crusty_bint » Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:15 pm

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby HollowHorn » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:50 pm

Santa Eulalia, Ibiza: (Captions welcome) ::):
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Ibiza Town:
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Fossil » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:09 pm

[quote="HollowHorn"]Santa Eulalia, Ibiza: (Captions welcome) ::):


Santa Eulalia, Ibiza:
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:24 am

How caome nane o' the married men are looking at her tits?

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I mean it's no as if it's their balls that are in their wives' hands.
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby elgee » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:48 am

They are jaded, like yerself Dex. They have seen enough tits, in the mirror every morning. Here is looking at you kid ::):
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Fossil » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:06 pm

elgee wrote:They are jaded, like yerself Dex. They have seen enough tits, in the mirror every morning. Here is looking at you kid ::):


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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby bilco8 » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:55 pm

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Hotel Lamp!
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Hard to steal picture....
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Doorstop » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:01 pm

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Parafin lamp .. equally random. :D
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Lone Groover » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:27 am

Last weekends jaunt around the Highlands. First ever visit for me, loved it, going back with a bigger lens next time !!

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby radar » Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:13 pm

I had a wee break last month in Argyllshire and have at last downloaded some of the piccies. Here are a few of them:

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Loch Eck in the early morning.

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Loch Eck again but this time looking north with the mist hanging around the end of the loch.

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Loch Fyne near Inverary looking towards Glen Shira

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Inveraray from the pier.

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Tighnabruaich pier and the western end of the Kyles of Bute.

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The Kyles of Bute looking south over the narrows towards Colintraive.

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On the way back south stopped at Annandale Water services on the M74.

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Almost home and stopped to photograph this sunset.

I certainly chose the right time to visit with sunshine every day :)
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby Alex Glass » Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:43 pm

Fantastic set of photos Radar :D

Love the reflections on the still waters. It must have been great. Wish I was there.

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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby radar » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:13 pm

Thanks Alex. It certainly was an amazing sight seeing the two lochs so calm and in brilliant sunlight. I only wish we even had a fraction of the sunlight over the last few days, it has been so dark and dreary :(
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Re: Holiday Snaps 2007

Postby gap74 » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:45 pm

Budapest last week (20 quid return on Ryanair, it pricks my environmental conscience, honest!)

I'll add some captions in the next day or two, can't be bothered tonight!

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This fella was in a square behind the Parliament building, quite liked him cos he looked like he was telling some kids up to mischief to bugger off out of it!

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A lion on the Szechenyi Chain Bridge, with Buda in the background. The Chain Bridge was designed by Englishman William TIerney Clark and built by the unrelated Scotsman, Adam Clark. The latter has a small square named after him on the other side of the bridge. All of Budapest's bridges were taken out by the Nazis as they fled after the war, so they've all been rebuilt to some extent or other.

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The courtyard of the apartment block I was staying at. Very typical from what I saw, I thought it was cool!

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The Hungarian State Opera House on Andrassy Utca, very opulent inside, but much smaller than I was expecting - I've got interiors but have yet to retrieve them from my mate's camera - I ran out of battery! Architect was Miklos Ybl, of whom more later!

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View south from the Chain Bridge along the Danube. Gellert Hill on the right has the Citadel at the top, an unused fortification from the mid-1800s. The statue of the lady holding out a palm leaf at the top celebrates the city's liberation by the Russians at the end of WWII.

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At the other end of the Chain Bridge is Buda Tunnel, also by Adam Clark. The incline railway on the left is the Siklo, which leads to a restored palace at the top on the right, which is now the presidential offices.

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The closest I got to HG type activities was a poke around this - an abandoned gateway to the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar, which was closed in the mid 80s due to decrepitude! All that's left now is a series of gateways and ramps and some derelict land around the foot of the Castle. The architect was the ubiquitous (in Budapest, at least!) Miklos Ybl, and it was built around 1880.

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A wider view of the derelict Bazaar

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An ornate viewing platform called the Fisherman's Bastion, not actually all that old, but very nice place to view Pest, the Danube and bits of Buda. Sadly, quite a hazy day when I was there! The white building with scaffolding and a dome peeking out from behind the Bastion on the other side of the river is the Parliament, based on the House of Commons.

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A different angle from the Bastion.

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And another.

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Just to prove that Glasgow isn't alone in terrible planning decisions, this is the main Hilton hotel in Budapest. Built in 1977, it involved the excavation and consolidation of the ruins of a medieval Dominican Church, which it was then built over and around - I'll leave you to judge how wise an idea this was, and how well executed you consider it!

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Closer view of the "integration" of hotel and church ruins!

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From memory (can't find my guide book!) this is the National Archives building, also in the Castle District - built in the 1920s, as I recall.

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Benches for one down by the Danube

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Although lots of the buildings look very grand at a distance, closer inspection reveals lots of them to be semi-derelict or in some disrepair. I liked this, must have been kinda what Glasgow was like in the early 80s as it started to find some new confidence to reinvent itself. The turbulent history of the place was visible all around.

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Heroes' Square, with City Park in the background.

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One of the squares on Andrassy Utca, a broad leafy and grand street - you might recognise it from the film version of Evita! Much of Munich was shot in Budapest too, it stood in for several cities - the first shooting in the stairwell takes place in Paris in the film, but was shot around the Opera House in Budapest.

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A bizarre building in many styles, Vajdahunyad Castle is in City Park, and was built for an exhibition at the close of the 19th century. It now houses the Museum of Agriculture.

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Also in City Park, this is the Szechenyi Baths - the city is littered with thermal baths and springs, so take your swimming cossie!

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Ice-skating on the drained lake in City Park - I liked this, none of the cramped clutter that we have around the rink in George Square!

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The Soviet Army Monument in Szabadsag Square. Under Communist rule, the city was littered with monuments to various Communist heroes, but almost all of these have been rounded up and moved to a park on the outskirts of the city as a kind of statue musem! This is one of the few that remain in situ, and like Lady Liberty up on Gellert Hill, celebrates the Russian army's liberation of the city at the end of WWII. Even so, this remains a contraversial monument, and protests seems to happen around it every now and again. Also in this square is the American Embassy, with the predictable barriers and closed streets around it - even the UK Embassy had barriers at each end of the road it's on, a sad state of affairs...

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St Stephen's Basilica, the main city cathedral. Wonderfully gloomy interior, and a chance to see the withered, severed hand of St Stephen inside! Several architects had a hand, our old friend Miklos Ybl amongst them, it only having been around for about 140 years.

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Interior shot of the dome, a pic that took considerable effort to obtain on the cheap 80 quid compact camera took!

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Night view of the Chain Bridge and Buda Castle complex.

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The Museum of Applied Arts, built by Odon Lechner around 1895. Budapest has some quite spectacular art nouveau and Secessionist buildings from this period, although some of the narrow streets and large trees make photographing them quite tricky!

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Finally, a long shot of Buda Castle (now housing various museums) and the abandonded Garden Bazaar structures along the Danube.
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