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This small hermit crab was striding along the sandy bottom of the Lembeh strait. It was less than 1 cm in size and it's home seemed to be made entirely of compacted sand. His sand "castle", maybe?
Peru Rail Co-Co locomotive 484 takes the short spur to access the terminus station at Aguas Calientes with a morning 'Backpacker' service from Cusco in August 2005.
Two of these 1975-built MLW Industries DL 535-B 1,200hp locomotives operated on the 914mm narrow gauge 68 miles Cusco-Machu Picchu route at that time.
The track in the centre foreground provided access to the lower town where additional stabling facilities for tourist train stock were used. Local train services would also use this line, which once extended onwards to Quillabamba.
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The only walker we saw all day and unusually a lone backpacker. Most backpacking in Sussex is along the South Downs Way and we are significantly far away from there. Turned out the chap was local and wanted to do a bit of wild camping overnight in the woods
An illustration to accompany an article in The Skinny about backpackers.
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I was camping at a lake all last week and while it wasn’t a backpacking trip, we were out in the wilderness just far enough to have spotty to nearly non-existent cell coverage so it really felt like we were roughing it by engaging in face-to-face communication with other humans! 😆
I took a few versions of this photo one evening and couldn’t decide which one I would post. I asked several of my fellow campers which if the three they preferred and most came up with this first image. None picked my favorite.
Check out all thedifferent versions and let me know which is your favorite.
James’ Court was built between 1723-7 by a developer called James Brownhill. His plan was for a courtyard building of exclusive apartments, in the style of its earlier neighbour, Milne’s Court. A series of old closes were demolished to make way and a square courtyard was formed with a tall tenement forming the North side.
Straight away it became one of the most fashionable addresses in Edinburgh. In 1762 the famous philosopher David Hume, moved into an apartment in James Court. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Paris as a secretary to a British diplomat, but he clearly missed his home. In a letter of 1763 written to his friend Adam Ferguson he admits: “…I wish twice or thrice a day, for my easy chair and my retreat in James Court”.
However by 1770, as the New Town started to be built, Hume was attracted by the prospect of a modern townhouse and saw the limitations of his Old Town home, describing it as: “…very cheerful and elegant, but too small to display my great talent for cookery…”