The Turks and The Romanians at war
This painting on The Monastery of Voronet shows a war between The Turks and The Romanians. Bill and I walked around these city walls that still stand in Istanbul, last week.
Lot’s and Lot’s of Monasteries!
The Moldovita Monastery. Has painting on the exterior of the church depicting various religious stories. The peasants of the time where illiterate. The paintings helped to educate the people.
Salt mines in Praid Romania
The salt mines are massive. We weren’t expecting them to be so large. The Romanian’s believe the mines help with respiratory problems. They generally make a day of it. They have picnic tables, skate boards, pingpong tables, exercise classes, etc. to oc…
Summer daze…
Ahoy, my friends! No Bahamian history lesson today, rather, just the usual travelogue and commentary on our escapades of late! We spent one day being somewhat industrious for ourselves, doing a bit of routine maintenance: oil change for the 12 kW gense…
Work….
Here’s another view of Lady Jane, taken just after she was taken out of the water.All that marine growth is now gone, built up over the years since I came round from Fareham over four years ago.The people standing to the left there give some idea of th…
Trenton Ont. Canada
Still waiting for the Captain to return to Sweetpea with SweetPea, our daughter Ashley will be traveling with us for a month or so, she will be with us throughout Canada and into Michigan where she will fly out. The boat (inside) h…
Tanna, Vanuatu – Yasur Volcano
From Anatom, it was an overnight trip to the next island, Tanna. The GRIB files lied and the trip was rolly with confused seas. Thankfully, it was a relatively short hop and we arrived in early afternoon. This was a unique landfall: although the nigh…
Still in Winter Harbor, NY
Day 13Depart No travel todayArrive Winter Harbor, NY Distance 0 MilesCumulative 423 MilesDecided to stay another day. Bob had a couple more maintenance projects to finish be…
Thursday, July 14, 2011
John and Norm went on an excursion to Daytona this morning. They went to 2 salvage boat stores and a West Marine. Neither one of them bought anything of consequence, but they had a good time. That allowed me to get my work done and then relax a little …
