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The journey on the Bernina Express in Switzerland.
Towards Pontresina.
The Bernina Express is a train connecting Chur (or Davos) in Switzerland to Poschiavo and Tirano in Italy by crossing the Swiss Engadin Alps. For most of its journey, the train also runs along the World Heritage Site known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes.
The train is operated by the Rhaetian Railway company for the purpose of sightseeing. It takes the form of an enhanced regional service between Tirano and Chur or Davos: panoramic coaches with enlarged windows and multi-lingual (English, Italian and German) audio guide on board. It is not an express in the sense of being a high-speed train; passengers must make a seat reservation either directly when they purchase Bernina Express tickets, or pay a small supplement on top of their regional train tickets. The Bernina Express is popular with tourists and connects in Tirano with the Post Bus service via Lake Como in Italy to Lugano in Switzerland.
The Albula line and the Bernina line on the Bernina Express's route were jointly declared a World Heritage Site in 2008. The trip on the Bernina Express through this World Heritage Site is a four-hour railway journey across 196 bridges, through 55 tunnels and across the Bernina Pass at 2,253 metres above sea. The entire line is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) (metre gauge) and electrified.
The Albula line was constructed between 1898 and 1904; it has been operated by the Rhaetian Railway since its auguration. The Bernina line was built between 1908 and 1910 and operated independently until the 1940s, when it was acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. The Bernina Express uses gradients of 7% to negotiate the difference in height of about 1800 meters from the summit at Ospizio Bernina to Tirano.
crane and waterfall
Shot with an Olympus 35RC
Olympus E. Zuiko 42mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak Portra 800 film
Shot at EI 800 and developed normally
Developed and scanned by The Darkroom
'Towards a Secure and Sustainable Energy Future’ discussion panel. EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum, London 2012
..towards Baochu Pagoda, to be more precise.
© Andy Brandl / PhotonMix (2011)
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Tail fin of Lufthansa Airbus A340-642 (HGW) D-AIHX which is being towed towards Terminal 1 by a Goldhofer AST-1 Towbarless Aircraft Tractor.
MSN 981 has had its first flight on 27.01.09 with the test registration F-WWCN and was delivered to LH on 25.02.09. This is a High Gross Weight version (HGW).
Map it: Street | Satellite | Hybrid | Nautical | Google Earth
« Towards a circular economy: innovation for sustainable value chains » Side Event during the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region, Geneva. 1 March 2018. UNECE photo by Violaine Martin
Looking towards the Victoria Building, which I had passed a thousand times without much noticing until I attended a wedding there, in what was formerly an operating theatre with audience seating!
The Victoria Building, University of Liverpool, is on the corner of Brownlow Hill and Ashton Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1892. It was the first purpose-built building for what was to become the University of Liverpool, with accommodation for administration, teaching, common rooms and a library. The building was the inspiration for the term "red brick university" which was coined by Professor Edgar Allison Peers. In 2008 it was converted into a museum and gallery
Some more 'Then and Now' shots from the city centre, taken mid January 2013.
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This is a photograph from the 'Please Give Jane a Voice' Charity 5KM Road Race, Fun Run, and Walk which was held in Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Sunday 16th February 2014 at 13:00. This race was held as a fund raiser for local girl Jane Boyle Regan who is 7 years old and is in need of a life-saving operation in Switzerland to help open her airways and rebuild her vocal chords. This is a very very good cause and the proceeds of the run today will be put towards the very substantial costs involved in this operation for Jane.
Runners, joggers, and walkers from around the Castlepollard, North Westmeath, and Oldcastle area came out in force today and there were over 200 participants in the event. The race followed an out and back loop on the R195 towards Oldcastle with the race starting and finishing in the market square of Oldcastle on Church Street. Refreshments were provided in the parish center.
This photograph is part of a larger set of photographs from today's event: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157641063502305
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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Towards Scriven Road. The road was named after Joseph Scriven, who wrote "what a friend we have in Jesus"......I believe he died through accidental drowning in the lake you see here....Rice Lake.
Towards the end of raspberry and loganberry seasons, the blackberries are just starting. I had a mixed batch of berries, so I juiced them together and made a jelly.
Eventually the old tramway began to descend rather steeply towards Honister, complete with its hostel, slate mine and large car park.
Day 2 on the Coast to Coast blogged about at ramblingman.org.uk/coasttocoast/coast_to_coast_day_2
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Golden Temple, Amritsar
2011
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the road outwards can for the person who walks with open eyes and receptive senses in a deeper sense be a road towards home.
- dag hammarskjöld
[explored]
A beautiful, remote and culturally rich country infamous for its military regime, Myanmar (Burma) has in recent years been making small steps towards democracy, with the first democratically elected government in 2015, after more than half a century.
Modern conveniences, such as mobile-phone coverage and internet access, are now common, however for all the recent changes, Myanmar remains at heart a rural nation of traditional values - though one may have hard time to find someone among the younger generation without a smartphone or Facebook profile.
One will still encounter men wearing the sarong-like longyi and chewing betel nut, spitting the blood-red juice onto the ground, women with faces smothered in thanakha (a natural sunblock), and cheroot-smoking grannies. Trishaws still ply city streets, while the horse or bullock and cart is common rural transport.
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We carefully planned our 3-weeks long Burmese adventure around 6-days long hiking trip in the remote Chin state, where we commenced our journey in the hilltop settlement of Mindat, and subsequently hiked for four days across ethnic minority villages using old footpaths and mule trails.
Besides that, Bagan was the obvious spot to spend a few days exploring its temples, and we also spent a few days more in the south around Hpa-An. Then, finally, Ngapali was the ultimate destination for our beach leisure time.
Henry Blodget, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief, Business Insider, USA, Theresa Whitmarsh, Executive Director, Washington State Investment Board, USA, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, USA, Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum during the Session "Towards Better Capitalism" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
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