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...or see them on a PROPER Google MAP.

Some of the pics have been Explored...

...and there's also this "interestingness" stuff.

>> Don't add logos or 'awards' to my pic comments - please. Ta. :-)

Cameras: Canon A80, Panasonic FZ20, Ricoh R6, Panasonic TZ7, Panasonic TZ30, Canon SX40 (and lots before them that don't feature here).

Me: Fairly nice.

Countries: These here...

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...and, no, despite the map, I haven't been to Svalbard, or Alaska, or Hawai'i, or Borneo, or New Guinea. But, on the other hand... I have seen Greenland and spent 2 nights in a (communist) Moscow transit hotel :-)

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'Do anything you've a mind to. Being a woman, you will.'

Joseph Stefano - Psycho screenplay (car salesman to Janet Leigh)

'Lisa refuses to play dodgeball because she is sad.'

The Simpsons (Mrs Krabappel, in note to Marge)

'Motorcycle riding is romantic, but motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. The dirt, the grease, the mastery of underlying form required are such that women never go near it.'

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

'Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.'

Bertrand Russell

'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.'

Bertrand Russell

'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.'

Pierre-Simon Laplace, replying to Napoleon when queried about why God was absent from Laplace's book on celestial mechanics.

'Religion is the inability to accept death.'

Me

'Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.'

George Orwell - 1984

'An it harm none, do what ye will.'

Wiccan Rede

'Hence, a traveller should be a botanist.'

Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle

'...make the boy interested in natural history if you can – it is better than games.'

Robert Falcon Scott - Diary, South Pole expedition

'There were plants and birds and rocks and things.'

America - A Horse with No Name

'...where the trees have leaves of prisms and break the light in colours that no-one knows the names of.'

Carole King/Gerry Goffin - Wasn't Born to Follow

‘Of the gladdest moments in life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home...’

Richard Burton, the traveller not the actor - Journal, 2 Dec 1856

'I'm home from China. What's for tea?'

Rupert Bear