Bird Bath
Ok, an Australian nickname for young ladies is "birds". Like it or not, I didn't invent it so don't blame me.
Today I am in the English city of Bath. So now you get the title, let's get on with it.
I saw this guy with the painted on mustache in the city centre and he was entertaining people with the pigeons. I presumed for money, but I didn't see any change hands. Before the girls, there was a great looking guy having a turn and he would have made a good subject, but my hands were full of coffee and the camera was in the man bag, so you have to put up with the birds.
Mustache was putting a tiny sprinkle of seed on their hands and shoulders etc and the pigeons, who had done it once or twice before, instantly flew to said spot for lunch. Mustache could place the feathered birds on said two legged birds anywhere he liked, including said head.
After the show, which wasn't long, moustache gave the girls a quick squirt in the hands with antiseptic, I presume.
Bath is a very very popular tourist city. The traffic is insane, the city street parking charges seem to be the dearest I have seen, the small waterside park charges an entry fee too. I went in to eat some lunch, and noticed a sign for paying, but the little window was all closed, so I assumed it only applied for special events. When I left, the pay kiosk was open and the lady was expecting payment, so I presume she was at lunch when I entered. Not very good for tourism really.
I think that English cities have reached a level of tourism, that they can do this now, because they can get away with it. If it was anywhere else, tourism would get a bad name and dry up.
Makes me wonder if Europe is like this.
Bath is also full of photographic opportunities, and there is just a couple below.
On the way here, I stopped at Avebury. Stonehenge gets all the publicity perhaps because of marketing or perhaps because it has a concentrated circle of regular shaped stones and some lintels (lintels are the horizontal pieces across the top of an opening for the non-technical.)
Avebury has Europes biggest religious circle of stones. Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, constructed around 2600 BC during the Neolithic or 'New Stone Age" and is roughly half a kilometer in diameter.
The monument comprises a large henge (that is a bank and a ditch) so - Stone henge (get it)
The site was effectively buried and it was mostly the efforts of millionaire, Alexander Keiller who spent a fortune in the 1930s uncovering and restoring the stones and henge etc, that we can enjoy it today.
Back in the much publicized Stonehenge, there is a big fence around it now, and all the tourists walk around the circular fence about 100m away from the stones, as it has become a victim of its own popularity.
Bird Bath
Ok, an Australian nickname for young ladies is "birds". Like it or not, I didn't invent it so don't blame me.
Today I am in the English city of Bath. So now you get the title, let's get on with it.
I saw this guy with the painted on mustache in the city centre and he was entertaining people with the pigeons. I presumed for money, but I didn't see any change hands. Before the girls, there was a great looking guy having a turn and he would have made a good subject, but my hands were full of coffee and the camera was in the man bag, so you have to put up with the birds.
Mustache was putting a tiny sprinkle of seed on their hands and shoulders etc and the pigeons, who had done it once or twice before, instantly flew to said spot for lunch. Mustache could place the feathered birds on said two legged birds anywhere he liked, including said head.
After the show, which wasn't long, moustache gave the girls a quick squirt in the hands with antiseptic, I presume.
Bath is a very very popular tourist city. The traffic is insane, the city street parking charges seem to be the dearest I have seen, the small waterside park charges an entry fee too. I went in to eat some lunch, and noticed a sign for paying, but the little window was all closed, so I assumed it only applied for special events. When I left, the pay kiosk was open and the lady was expecting payment, so I presume she was at lunch when I entered. Not very good for tourism really.
I think that English cities have reached a level of tourism, that they can do this now, because they can get away with it. If it was anywhere else, tourism would get a bad name and dry up.
Makes me wonder if Europe is like this.
Bath is also full of photographic opportunities, and there is just a couple below.
On the way here, I stopped at Avebury. Stonehenge gets all the publicity perhaps because of marketing or perhaps because it has a concentrated circle of regular shaped stones and some lintels (lintels are the horizontal pieces across the top of an opening for the non-technical.)
Avebury has Europes biggest religious circle of stones. Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, constructed around 2600 BC during the Neolithic or 'New Stone Age" and is roughly half a kilometer in diameter.
The monument comprises a large henge (that is a bank and a ditch) so - Stone henge (get it)
The site was effectively buried and it was mostly the efforts of millionaire, Alexander Keiller who spent a fortune in the 1930s uncovering and restoring the stones and henge etc, that we can enjoy it today.
Back in the much publicized Stonehenge, there is a big fence around it now, and all the tourists walk around the circular fence about 100m away from the stones, as it has become a victim of its own popularity.