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Post by onlyMark on Sept 5, 2022 18:37:32 GMT
It is finally pouring glorious violent rain. And yet 250km away it has been 30 degrees and mostly sunny. The burning question is, has K2 ever stayed in this Ibis Styles -
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 4, 2022 16:44:29 GMT
I asked about the food because of wondering about doing a trip. I'm glad there is at least some provision to have a sandwich between meals. Fascinating photos of something we rarely see but, the bridge is totally underwhelming. Looks like an afterthought in an abandoned canteen.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 4, 2022 5:52:21 GMT
obligatory dining hours: 07:30, 11:30, 17:30 Half an hour later, 08:00, 12:00, 18:00, would sound disproportionally nicer. I wonder the reason for the odd times. I expect you can't get anything to eat outside those hours but if they are obligatory, is there a punishment if you miss a meal?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 30, 2022 12:07:03 GMT
Questa, it's context. K2 was taking a sarcastic stab at me, not himself being prideful about nuclear power.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2022 16:24:34 GMT
Bit of a luxury they are in Europe. In Zambia I got a bit sick of eating them.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 29, 2022 6:15:45 GMT
A number of thunderstorms last night but little actual rain. This is my area. It produces about 25% of the world's olive oil. The province produces half of Spain's olive oil, which produces half(?) of the world's olive oil - www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62707435
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 28, 2022 12:21:21 GMT
Hah! Christmas, Carrefour, Cairo, about fifty of the same make radio/cd players stacked up on a display. Bought one. Took it home. CD player not working, took it back, told probably my CD is faulty, whipped out a dozen of my CD's, none worked. They gave me another device. Refused to leave the shop until they tried it. No CDs worked. Got them to grab any one of their CDs. They tried two and none worked. Told them to grab a random device off the stack and try that. They did. Not working. Tried another, still not working. Got my money back. Went back a week later for more shopping and shook head when saw still a bit less than fifty still on sale.
Christmas, Carrefour, Amman, went for decorations. Tubes and tubes of baubles containing about ten each. Not one tube had an unbroken set. Saw two white men in suits surrounded by several workers, got closer and waited and listened. The two men were conversing in French with each other and Arabic with the workers. Big bosses then. Walked in front of them, said, "Bonjour" (the extent of my French unless I ask to to be a pen friend or want three baguettes). Knew without a doubt they had to speak English, or at least risked it. Held out a tube of broken baubles and asked them to find me a tube where they were all complete. Any colours, not bothered, but none broken. They sent off a worker, I followed him, couldn't find on the very large display a complete tube. Walked with him back to the bosses, he shook his head, mentioned they may need to improve their quality control and handling techniques and walked off.
PicknPay, Lusaka, asked manager to find me an unbruised apple. Any make, any size, any colour. But no bruises. Couldn't. Then watched with him as worker got a carboard box full of granny smith's, tipped them from nearly above his head onto the display, about a third falling onto the floor from where he picked them up and added them to the display. Looked at the manager and walked off.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 28, 2022 6:15:44 GMT
It's a known Chrome bug if you use that. I presume you've checked the computer time/date/location/time zone info? Have you synchronised your computer clock to Windows?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 28, 2022 6:06:58 GMT
In Aldi and Lidl, the section of the checkout past the cashier is/seems far smaller than in normal supermarkets. I either read somewhere or worked out it is so you become forced to just pile stuff up in your trolley rather than taking time to bag the items so you clear the checkout quicker.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 26, 2022 6:23:23 GMT
An hommage to Mieke the turtle. Because i don't remember of i drowned itvin the gasket under the waterpump. Or if i had it cooked behind the heater in winter. Ahh, ok.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 20:33:16 GMT
The turtle that's on fire... what does it say? Post 2, 2nd and 3rd photos - no parking regulations then....
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 20:26:21 GMT
I’ve got 1100011 problems but binary isn’t one of them.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 20:17:49 GMT
In Spain you get white sliced bread but it's never in the bread section of the shop. It's somewhere hidden by the burger buns. If so, it has the twisted paper covered wire thing. You can get it but it's a not very good version and invariably used for toast. In Germany the same and they call it toast bread because that's all they do with it. I know the sticky tape and the flat plastic notched clip, I am a very experienced sliced white bread eater and seek it out wherever I go. I had a few slices last night with egg mayonnaise, often eggy bread (gypsy toast) or with cheddar and Branston. Mrs M is a bread snob due to her heritage - but - I once introduced her in England to thick sliced white toast with orange marmalade. She was hooked. The problem is, without my glasses, I can't see which way to turn the bloody thing to get it off.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 20:06:31 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 16:14:05 GMT
It's nice that you quoted the same thing for me twice. It must have been important.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 8:16:36 GMT
Two things I want you to vaguely notice - in places like shopping malls or large establishments, why do males most often have to walk past the females toilet first? Unavoidable that males will cast a look inside as they pass by. Secondly, when you buy, say, a loaf of bread, and the item has a twisted paper covered wire fastener (old technology I think usually), why is it I generally have to undo the twist in a clockwise direction when that should be the direction to fasten it, not undo it? Yes, life is hard sometimes.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 8:09:38 GMT
I pay 10 euro a month for a Spanish SIM card which gives me 20Gb a month data, a large number of free SMS's and local calls. I have a German SIM with no data but pay as you go. Neither I use for international calls as I use Whatsapp or Viber for free or Skype for a lesser amount that the SIM costs for calls to non-internet calls. I don't have a landline anywhere and in Germany I pay 22.99 euro a month for unlimited internet via a wifi router. In Bosnia I pay 29.99 euros a month for unlimited internet and fibre TV with about 500 channels of which I watch precisely none. There is no TV in Spain or Germany. In Spain we also 'rent' an internet SIM which I put in a mifi (small wifi router) for when we are there. Has a limit of 300Gb a month and costs about 1 euro a day.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 25, 2022 5:50:09 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 24, 2022 18:46:30 GMT
Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" - but now, not in 1987. Still looks good and still has an attractive voice -
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 24, 2022 11:29:47 GMT
That amount is too much. Up to a hundred is fine. Otherwise even I would be skipping quite a few.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 24, 2022 8:32:01 GMT
A number of years ago I was with the female contingent of the family, numbering three, and had couple of hours to spare before dropping them off at the airport. Casting around for something to occupy us I suggested a visit to what was advertised as a car museum. Groans all round until I mentioned it said they had dresses, clothing, hats etc there as well. We set off with some alacrity and enthusiasm but I know that in the back of their minds they were somewhat disbelieving as to how a car museum could have female apparel. It turned out to their moderate surprise that it did. The displays are in chronological order (though I’m not so sure my photos are) and each era displays the cars and dresses in close proximity before moving on to the next. It opened in 2010 as the Automobile Museum and was renamed in 2021 as Automobile and Fashion Museum. It houses the private collection of Portuguese car fanatic Joao Magalhaes. The collection is worth around 25 million Euros, and is said to be one of the most important vintage car collections in the world. This museum is housed in the old tobacco factory (Fabrica de Tabacos) constructed in 1927. It now houses more than 80 vintage and modern cars, dresses, clothing and a collection of 300 vintage hats. “From Balenciaga to Schiaparelli features headpieces dating from hat heyday, the 1920s to 1950s, from all the great fashion houses: Chanel, Dior, Lanvin, Balmain......” www.museoautomovilmalaga.com/Here is a selection. I’ve tried to pare it down but I still end up with 50 or so - More to come.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 24, 2022 5:56:26 GMT
I never wanted an apartment in a city, which is one of the things we talked about at the very beginning. Luckily I managed to be persuasive.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 23, 2022 18:51:09 GMT
Why did I spend far too much money and sweat blood on this house for seven years? This ten second video my daughter made yesterday sums it up perfectly -
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 23, 2022 5:33:36 GMT
You don't keep the arm raised all the time. You raise and lower it relatively quickly. Serves two purposes. To signal for help plus the eye reacts to movement better than a static arm or both arm raise. Also one raised arm, palm forward, is a natural way to attract someone's attention. The problem is, if you are sufficiently calm and remember to do this, you probably don't need too much help. Those who do need urgent help are usually too busy trying to survive......
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2022 19:24:52 GMT
During the long hot summer of 1976 when I worked as a lifeguard in Cornwall I experienced both on a number of occasions. Whether they are synonyms of the same thing or not, as they can be thought of as similar, is neither here nor there as they exhibit somewhat different characteristics. An undertow drags you under but will usually release you reasonably quickly when you reach the next wave (or one after). There's very little you can do about it but not panic and hold your breath. Kick off the bottom if the water is shallow enough or you are deep enough when you feel to undertow slacken. A riptide is not inclined to drag you under but will not release you for some time and distance.....amongst other differences. You can get out of them but again not to panic is the thing and you can eventually swim out of them.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2022 19:09:48 GMT
I won't be back for maybe a year. Mrs M wants to go so I'll no doubt visit then but whilst she is working away a daughter and I nip here and there. The church and tower (translated from Spanish) - "It is a temple with a long construction history that began in the 15th century under the technique and aesthetics of the Mudejar, and ended in the 18th century with the full boom of the Baroque. Specifically, its chronology extends, for its first stage, during the period of time between the years 1400 and 1499 ; and for the second, a long space that goes from 1600 to 1784. Among the first important reforms that were undertaken in this church is precisely that of the tower , built in brick, whose current state responds firstly to the work carried out around 1565 by the famous Renaissance architect Hernán Ruiz II , and then to other successive interventions which were not completed until well into the eighteenth century." sevillapedia.wikanda.es/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Pedro_(Carmona)The theatre was built in 1931 and seems of the same style as your photo as there was only a few years between them. It was built by a man who won a million pesetas on the lottery in 1928. The city certainly does have a mish mash of styles and as though things took so long to build, new styles came in and out of fashion. The colonnaded square is the Plaza de Abastos (Mercado). No idea when it was built.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2022 13:31:13 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2022 6:21:09 GMT
I can see three cars being driven and possibly they are trying to find their way out of the city as well.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 21, 2022 21:23:22 GMT
A few more photos as an overview of the place tomorrow.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 21, 2022 21:22:38 GMT
A short photo report, one of a series starting with the previous slightly longer coastal walk and then Ubeda. It’s probably best to say Carmona has mixed heritage. It’s situated on a defensible escarpment about 33km north east from Seville and first settled around 5000 years ago. With the arrival of Phoenician traders from Tyre, Carmona was transformed into a city. Centuries later it became a Roman stronghold and known as Carmo in the time of Julius Caesar. With the demise of the Roman Empire, Carmona also declined and from the beginning of the 8th century until the middle of the 13th century, the city was part of Muslim al-Andalus. The city was made even more impregnable during the long occupation of the Moors, who erected walls around it, and built fountains and palaces inside the walls. It was eventually taken over by the Christian forces sweeping through Andalusia, who also did their fair share of remodelling. The architecture is quite a mix of styles and you never quite know what you’ll see around the next corner. We did our usual walking around beginning late afternoon when all and sundry were tucked away in the shade and snoozing, nipped back to the hotel for our own rest, then went out again as it got dark to have dinner. And yes, it was 40 degrees C still as we walked around in the afternoon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Carmona,_Spain
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