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Dinner partners - Victor
Victor's grandparents immigrated to Canada from Hungary. |
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Victor and Beverly live in Toronto.
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Nora, born in Yorkshire, immigated to Canada when quite young.
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Mandu, our waiter in the ship's dining room.
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The main square of Nassau. Here I saw a great many lawyers coming out of the court building, all buttoned up in coats and ties in the heat.
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Flowering red bush behind a shed in Nassau. Don't know the name of it.
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A bandstand in the main square.
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One of the oldest buildings on the island.
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Looking down through the trees from the roof of the library.
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A building in Nassau.
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The Nassau shore
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The harbor at Nassau
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Salute from a horse!
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Three of us took a carriage ride. I sat beside the driver.
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Same here. The yellow cloth is to catch the horse droppings.
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A typical building
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Wallace, the carriage driver.
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An old government building facing the square.
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The following handful of very tropical photos were taken at Half-Moon Cay, a private island used by cruise ships.
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Courtyard of Hassan mosque in Casablanca
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Ruined fort above Casablanca
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Entrances to the mosque interior. We couldn't go in.
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A hotel near Casablanca where we stopped for a cold drink.
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The next several photos are of the Palace of the Bey and its various courtyards.
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Ornate street light outside the Bey's palace
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Once entrance to King Hassan's palace. The king is, I believe, the sixth of that name, and he is quite young.
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Men in costumes like this used to sell water to women so they wouldn't have to enter a store of any kind to buy it.
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It seems they have a friend...
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From the date, I'd say this monument in Cadiz commemorates a victory over Napeleon.
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A closer view
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Buildings on the Plaza Major in Cadiz
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A fountain on the Plaza Major, once a horse-trough?
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A row of fine old buildings in Cadiz
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A beautifully-ornamented facade
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A deer, jumping down from a shelf in Cadiz
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The seaside esplanade in Cadiz
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The theatre in Cadiz
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Park Guell, designed by Gaudi in Barcelona
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He first intended the park to have houses and apartments, but never completed his plan.
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Some of the structures he built appear to have no definite use. A convenient place for a barbeque?
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I like the lacy entropy of it, however.
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The ceiling looks the way roots of enormous plants might look underground.
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Garden of a house in which Gaudi lived for a while.
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Looking out over some of the Gaudi houses and the city.
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Gardens in the park
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Another house, looking iced and edible
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Gaudi intended this structure as a recreation area for residents of the park
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Another view of the recreation area, with a rose-colored house behind
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Res ipse loquitur
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Some Gaudi-esque paths
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I should have photo-shopped out the soda can
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Manguey plant?
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Sagrada Familia - I did not go inside, owing to the huge crowds already waiting.
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I love the bunches of fruit at the tops of some of the spires.
In the end, I decided I'd see it better in a book.
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An apartment building similar to the Casa Mila.
I found that Gaudi's basic architectural designs were fairly typical for his time and place. His ornamentation, embellishment, flourishes and mad imagination set him apart from the rest. |
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Here follow many photos of Monaco and the scenic bowl of mountains in which it sits. Some of the mountains are in France, actually.
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I must have been drunk when I took this one
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Love the yachts
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I had lunch at one of these tables
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Walkway atop the harbor facilities
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This poor fellow couldn't pay his debt at the casino
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I think this is Rome...
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Yes....
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Inscription in Piazza Navona
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Bridge over the Tiber, which had little water in it.
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All familiar scenes
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Ponte Emanuelle
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Castel St Angelo
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Across the Tiber, in the older part of Rome
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The Tribunali from Ponte Umberto
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Fountain in Piazza Navona (which was jammed with mobs of schoolchildren, making cross the street easier)
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The most famous oculus in the world
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From here to the last line of photos, I decided to show some of the ornate objets d'art, furniture, and decoration in the Westerdam
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Detail of railing in dining-room
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Door to dining-room
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My favorite - barstools
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An elevator door
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Arrangement in a hallway
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The Westerdam in port at Monaco
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The MS Volendam
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Volendam and her tenders. Note empty lifeboat space.
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Apparatus for inflating and lowering rubber lifeboats
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Lowering sky over the sea
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