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caminando por una de las calles principales de Mirambel encontramos esta bonita fachada con el balcón tan bonito y no pude resistirme a hacerle una foto. Resulta que es un alojamiento rural de calidad. La construcción es la estandar en el pueblo que protege del frio y aisla el calor.
walking through one of the main streets of Mirambel we found this beautiful facade with the beautiful balcony and I could not resist taking a photo of it. It turns out that it is a quality rural accommodation. The construction is the standard in the town that protects from the cold and insulates the heat.
caminant per un dels carrers principals de Mirambell trobem aquesta bonica façana amb balcó tan bonic i no vaig poder resistir-me a fer-li una foto. Resulta que és un allotjament rural de qualitat. La construcció és la estàndard en el poble que protegeix de l'fred i aïlla la calor.
Comes with sea view and it's own waterproof sheet.
Cooped up for the past few weeks, I've been losing the will to live. So on Ken's day off at the weekend, we ventured along Seaton Beach, to the blue lagoon. No its not somewhere like the Med and why it got that name, I've no idea lol!
The weather has been horrible lately. Yes I know, there's no such thing as bad weather lol!
Well the sky has been flat white, dullness, and I'm struggling to see what I can make of it.
I took a few images of the industry over at Teesbay but this image of the makeshift accommodation on the beach, made me smile.
It's not my usual capture from a beach scene but it's certainly a bit different.
I've spent the past week, looking tirelessly for somewhere to go at the end of Aug. It seems because of Covid, everyones had the same idea. Nothing to be had, as I don't really want to stay in a hotel. Maybe I need to build one like this :)
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Original del Siglo XIII, se alza sobre un cerro rocoso dominando el valle del Río Duero. Ha sido restaurado recientemente como alojamiento hotelero.
Castle of Curiel de Duero.
Original of the 13th century, stands on a rocky hill overlooking the Valley of the Douro River. It has been restored recently as hotel accommodation.
Curiel de Duero (Valladolid). Castilla y León. España.
KARANGA CAMP (4400m)
Machame Route
Mount Kilimanjaro
Usually, weather changes along the day in Mount Kilimanjaro. It's very common during the morning begins a sunny and warm weather and while pass the day it changes to a cloudy and cold. Even, It's not rare that it rains in the afternoon.
These tents form part of the Karanga Camp.
The mountain you can see on the background of this photography is the Kilimanjaro peak.
Machame Route, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Tanzania, February 2016
This cottage on the Blickling Estate in Norfolk is over 200 years old and presumably once provided accommodation for an estate worker. It doesn’t appear to have a name or street identity and even on the listed building register it is just shown as 8!
I am not sure if it is currently occupied as it does seem in need of some repairs especially to gable end. Nonetheless, a nice place to live, just a bit of TLC required!
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A charming somewhat dilapidated guest house I spotted in Montagu, Western Cape.
I think they might have to go down with the prices…a little. :-)
(799 South African Rand = 52 Euro)
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Pattaya is a city in the Chonburi Province of Thailand, located on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand. It is a popular tourist destination known for its beaches, nightlife and shopping. Pattaya is best known for its extensive and vibrant nightlife, with numerous bars, clubs and restaurants open late into the night. It is a popular destination for party people, especially among young people and expats. Besides the nightlife, Pattaya also has several beautiful beaches, including Jomtien Beach, Wong Amat Beach and Pattaya Beach. Many water sports activities are also available, such as scuba diving, snorkeling, jet skiing and parasailing. Pattaya also has some interesting cultural attractions, such as the Sanctuary of Truth, a wooden temple built in traditional Thai style, and the Big Buddha, a large golden Buddha statue on a hilltop. Despite its popularity as a tourist destination, Pattaya also faces some problems such as overcrowding, traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Yet it remains a fascinating and diverse city with much to offer visitors seeking sun, sea, sand and adventure.
Pattaya Center Seascape Apartment is an apartment complex located in the center of Pattaya, Thailand, just minutes walk from the beach and the main tourist attractions of the city. The complex has a modern feel and offers a range of facilities for guests, including an outdoor swimming pool, gym, sauna, children's playground and garden. The apartments at Pattaya Center Seascape Apartment are decorated in a modern and stylish style and offer views of the sea and the city. The complex is no less than 30th floors high and is conveniently located within walking distance of many popular tourist attractions such as Pattaya Walking Street, Royal Garden Plaza and Central Festival Pattaya Beach Mall. There are also plenty of restaurants, bars and shops nearby. Photo taken from our Seascape Apartment in the heart of Pattaya.
Pattaya is vooral bekend om zijn uitgebreide en bruisende uitgaansleven, met talloze bars, clubs en restaurants die tot laat in de nacht open zijn. Het is een populaire bestemming voor feestvierders, vooral onder jongeren en expats. Naast het nachtleven heeft Pattaya ook verschillende prachtige stranden, waaronder Jomtien Beach, Wong Amat Beach en Pattaya Beach. Er zijn ook veel watersportactiviteiten beschikbaar, zoals duiken, snorkelen, jetskiën en parasailen. Pattaya heeft ook enkele interessante culturele bezienswaardigheden, zoals de Sanctuary of Truth, een houten tempel die is gebouwd in traditionele Thaise stijl, en de Big Buddha, een grote gouden Boeddhabeeld op een heuveltop. Ondanks zijn populariteit als toeristische bestemming, heeft Pattaya ook te maken met enkele problemen, zoals overbevolking, verkeersopstoppingen en milieuvervuiling. Toch blijft het een fascinerende en diverse stad die veel te bieden heeft voor bezoekers die op zoek zijn naar zon, zee, strand en avontuur. Wij verblijven in het Pattaya Center Seascape Apartment in het centrum van Pattaya, op slechts enkele minuten lopen van het strand en de belangrijkste toeristische attracties van de stad. Het complex is maar liefst 30 verdiepingen hoog en heeft een moderne uitstraling en biedt een scala aan faciliteiten voor de gasten, waaronder een buitenzwembad, een fitnessruimte, een sauna, een kinderspeelplaats en een tuin. Het apartment is ingericht in een moderne en stijlvolle stijl en biedt uitzicht op de zee en de stad. Het complex is gunstig gelegen op loopafstand van veel populaire toeristische attracties, zoals de Pattaya Walking Street, het Royal Garden Plaza en de Central Festival Pattaya Beach Mall. Er zijn ook tal van restaurants, bars en winkels in de buurt. Foto van het uitzicht vanaf ons apartment in het hart van Pattaya.
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Correction:
It was built on the site of the Ribble Bus Station, not "a former children's hospital".
Update:
Since corrected.
This house is located on Waupoos Island in Prince Edward County. The island is an active livestock farm in warmer weather (Sheep) . No one resides there in the winter. There is a barge available to move goods and livestock back and forth. Electrical and phone services go to the island.
The island is tricky to navigate around by boat as the island rock comes out a long way into the water. There are also some hidden shoals.
Mount Pleasant, Swansea. An old NHS hospital. Formerly a Victorian workhouse built in 1862. Now a private housing estate.
Built in 1925 in a traditional historic style featured by neoclassicism and neo-baroque motives. Arhitect Artur Medlinger. Initially there were 100 rooms, four halls, terraces and a beautiful park with fountains around the building. In the 1930s there were held traditional jazz band concerts “Five o’clock tee dancing”. The building with corner pavilions is a monument of architecture.
One of the accommodation buildings at Kersfontein, catching brilliant morning sunlight.
Around 140 km/85 miles north of Cape Town, Kersefontein is a farmstead with many period Cape Dutch buildings, some dating back to the late 18th Century... very old in South Africa.
Originally purchased by settler Martin Melck in 1770, Kersefontein remains in the possession of the eighth generation of his descendants. The first deed described the farm as a 'zeker Veepost' (certain cattle post) and it remains used to farm sheep, cattle, horses and wheat as it has for a quarter of a millennium. It is also available for farm-stays.
If you're on the hunt for a new property that's a little out of the ordinary, Little River's Silo Stay may tick all your boxes.
Located in 'the gateway to the Banks Peninsula', the property is approximately 45 minutes drive from Christchurch on the main route to Akaroa.
Comprised of nine silo units, the former agricultural complex was converted into boutique accommodation in 2012.
This is the view from the area where out conference room was looking across at one of the room buildings where I stayed when at the Speke Conference centre, I am over travelling so much these days, but as you have seen was sure a beautiful place to stay
Hope everyones weekend has started well
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The Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle. For those not familiar with it, yes it has been earmarked for demolition. The buildings were not the prettiest, but they did provide affordable accommodation close to the centre of London, and there lies the problem I imagine. The land bucked the capitalist ideals of London so it had to go.
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Soon enough it will warm up, patrons at a local bar will venture outside again, and these patio chairs will be unstacked to accommodate them. In the mean time, abstract juxtapositions of lines and curves catch my attention. It's not one of my stronger suits but worth exploring from a composition point of view.
Park Inn by Radisson hotel at corner of Lāčplēša Street and Krišjāņa Barona Street in Riga. The closest is the former Daile cinema building. The project was designed by architect Paul Mandelstam in 1913. The implementation of the project was disrupted by the First World War, and construction work was postponed for almost two decades. In 1936, construction was resumed by the then-landowner Fricis Nāruns and civil engineer Teodors Hermanovskis. It was opened on December 19, 1936. The cinema was the first in Latvia to be built especially for sound films, the premises were designed to accommodate about 660 spectators.
Ashford Castle on the bank of Lough Corrib, where we had our afternoon tea, County Galway, Ireland
Some background information:
Ashford Castle is a large medieval and Victorian castle that has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star luxury hotel. It is located near the village of Cong on the County Galway side of Lough Corrib, directly bordering the County Mayo side of the lake. Today, Ashford Castle, which was previously owned by the Guinness family, is a member of the Red Carnation Hotels organisation.
We just had an afternoon tea in the castle’s Connaught Room. The afternoon tea offers guests a wide selection of speciality teas, delicate finger sandwiches, freshly baked scones and delectable pastries, presented on a silver three-tier stand,. whereby every guest is served their own three-tier stand. On the lowest tier, there are the sandwiches. On the middle tier, guests will find three different scones, served with two types of clotted cream. And on the top tier, the elegantly presented pâtisserie is displayed.
I had an Irish Whiskey Cream Tea accompaning the delicacies and if you don’t manage to eat all of them, the leftovers are packed for you in a neat box, so that you can take them home. We had our afternoon tea at a table next to one of the windows, with view into the gardens and onto Lough Corrib. By the way, if you want to take your afternoon tea there, you have to order it in advance. Just dropping by would be pointless and you wouldn’t even be able to pass the gatekeepers of the estate.
In 1228, Ashford Castle was built on the perimeter of a monastic site by the Anglo-Norman noble House de Burgo. After having been more than three-and-a-half centuries in possession of the Burke family, the castle passed into the hands of Sir Richard Bingham, Lord President of Connaught, in 1589. A battle between the forces of the de Burgo family and those of Bingham had been preceded the change of the owner. Following the battle and thereby also the owner change, Bingham added a fortified enclave within Ashford Castle‘s precincts.
In 1670, Dominick Browne, Baron Oranmore and Browne, received the estate in a royal grant. In 1715, the estate of Ashford was established by the Browne family and a hunting lodge in the style of a 17th-century French chateau was constructed. In the late 18th century, a branch of the family inhabited the castle.
In 1852, the Irish brewer and philanthropist Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, who later received the title 1st Baronet of Ashford, purchased the estate. He added two large Victorian style extensions, extended the estate to 110 square kilometres (26,000 acres), built new roads and planted thousands of trees. After Sir Benjamin's death in 1868, the estate passed to his son Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, who expanded the building further in the neogothic style.
Arthur Guinness was an avid gardener who oversaw the development of massive woodlands and rebuilt the entire west wing of the castle, designed by architects James Franklin Fuller and George Ashlin. The new construction connected the early 18th-century part in the east with two de-Burgo-time towers in the west. Additionally, battlements were added to the whole castle. After being rebuilt, Ashford Castle welcomed many famous guests such as the British King George V, among others who stayed with the Guinness family.
After having been sold to Noel Huggard in 1939, the new owner opened the estate as a hotel. Since then, the hotel has hosted many famous guests, such as Queen Mary, the author Oscar Wilde, the actors Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Ronald Reagan, US Senator Ted Kennedy, Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his wife Princess Grace, Prince Edward, the Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as the actors Robin Williams, Pierce Brosnan and Brad Pitt. Professional golfer Rory McIlroy even married there in 2017.
In July 2015, Ashford Castle was voted third best world hotel by "Travel + Leisure magazine", US. In August 2015, it was voted world's best hotel during "Virtuoso Travel Week". Furthermore, in 2020 and 2022, the hotel claimed top spot in the prestigious World’s Best Resort Hotel in the UK & Ireland awards. And in 2023, it has been hailed as one of the world's best hotels by "Forbes Travel Guide", from which it received the maximum rating of five stars – just like only a handful of other hotels.
Lough Corrib, on whose bank Ashford Castle is located, is a lake in the west of Ireland connected to the sea at Galway by the River Corrib. It is the largest lake within the Republic of Ireland and the second largest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh). Lough Corrib covers 176 km² and lies mostly in County Galway with a small area of its northeast corner in County Mayo. The main tributaries draining into Lough Corrib include the Cornamona, Bealanabrack, Owenriff, Drimneen, Cong, Clare, Annacourta, Black and Cross rivers.
The lake is rather popular with anglers because it has a large fish population. Among the fishes in the lake are trouts, pikes, perches and salmons. Furthermore, the wildlife in Lough Corrib includes birds and hawks, otters, mink, stoat, frogs and bats. In 1996, Lough Corrib was designated a Ramsar site and it has also been designated a Special Area of Conservation.
The lake is also of international importance as a marine archaeological site. Surveys have uncovered a number of objects of historical significance, which have been investigated by the Underwater Archaeology Unit of the National Monuments Service. These include Bronze Age and Iron Age vessels as well as the "Carrowmoreknock Boat", a well preserved 10th century vessel carrying three Viking battle axes. There are also a lot of islands on the lake. Among them are Inchagoill with ist Early Christian abbey ruins, Inishquin, Inishmicatreer, Inishdoorus and Rabbit Island, to name just the largest ones.