Some oldies

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I was going through some boxes and I came across these old pictures. So I quickly scanned them.

Above: Tübingen, Germany where I studied in the early 1970s.

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Geneva, Switzerland. My first visit also in the early 1970s. Little did I know that I would end up living/working there for 9 years in the 1990s.

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View from the North face of the Eiger. Also early 1970s.

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The Nile at the First Cataract as seen from the Cataract Hotel, where Agatha Christie wrote “Death on the Nile”. My first mission for UNICEF, late 1970s.

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A younger me in a village across the river from Aswan. Late 1970s.

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I don’t think this needs any explanation. Late 1970s.

Although I’m not entirely sure, I think the camera I used was a Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII. Great camera. I still have it.

A pair of giant skeletons

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During a recent walk I came across these gigantic skeletons.They’re truly huge, at least twice the height of a normal human being. I would not have been surprised if this was around Hallowe’en, but the picture was taken in May!! I guess they’re so big that it’s hard (maybe impossible) to take them down every year. So there they stand all year round.

Taken with Sony RX100 M3

Seen at a nearby Mexican Restaurant

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I had a visitor staying with me a couple of weeks ago. We’d been out all day and were a little tired so we decided to go to a nearby Mexican Restaurant. It was fairly crowded and a particularly loud group of women was making a lot of noise.

We asked if we could relocate to another table and were told that the only available tables were outside. I didn’t even know that they had an outside seating area! Anyway off we went. It turned out that it was quite pleasant, and almost completely empty – just one couple and a couple of these colorful statues.

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Taken with an Iphone SE II.