The web seems full of "spring has sprung" messages this week - for fairly obvious reasons, even if it is autumn where I live instead - so my time at the Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands has come back to me. Tulips make me think of two things: my Mum, who would count these as her favourite …
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Picture pirouette: Latvian port has pretty and not-so-pretty spots
It's not always the beautiful sights that catch my eye when I'm travelling. Sometimes it's beautiful words in ugly places. This ship was docked in the harbour at Ventspils, a key Latvian port. "Pretty Flourish"? I don't think so.You'll probably be glad to hear that the rest of Ventspils was a lot …
Picture pirouette: The roof of a Western Australian cave
Isn't this picture mysterious? It's one of those fun surprises I got from letting my camera take a slow exposure picture while lying on the ground looking up - the camera, that is, I was just sitting next to it pushing buttons. What you can see are stalactites in one of the caves in the south-west …