Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind
Visited Berlin last weekend which was significantly warmer than when I was there last October with temperatures in the lower twenties.
Apart from the 3 hour delay on my Easyjet flight back it was a great weekend spent mostly visiting museums including The Jewish Museum, The Topography of Terror exhibition and the New National Gallery.
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Walkway in Mong Kok
I’ve been editing some of the photos I took in Hong Kong at the end of last year and this is one I particularly like. It’s a photomerge image of an elevated pedestrian walkway in Mong Kok.
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Pylon in North Bondi
Set myself the challenge of cycling 500km over the week of Christmas whilst staying in Sydney after becoming inspired by the Rapha Festive 500 Cycle Challenge, and feeling the need to get some miles in as preparation for the Étape of the Tour de France I entered into.
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Acte I Étape profile 2011
I’m getting myself into trouble is what, having signed up to participate in next years Étape du Tour between Modane Valfréjus and Alpe d’Huez.
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Fernsehturm Tower in Berlin
Just been in Berlin where I took these photos of the Fernsehturm in Alexanderplatz. They are night time shots with different lighting configurations all taken a short time apart.
I really like this building, still one of the tallest structures in Europe (368 metres), it was constructed by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) administration.
Snowboarder on the Piste
Just back from a snowboarding trip to Bansko, Bulgaria. Bit of a schlep to get there, a 3 hour flight followed by a 3 hour transfer, but well worth it if you’re going for a week.
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Train Platform at Dusk
Took this photo from the Eurostar Train on the way to Paris last week. Had been snowing quite heavily and lots of services were cancelled but we managed to get there and back albeit with some delays.
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Paraty House by Marcio Kogan
That’s it, I’m robbing Fred Goodwin and moving to Brazil, when I get there I’m going to buy this house and retire. Any tips on how to rob Fred Goodwin would be much appreciated.
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Portavadie to Dunoon Cycle route
Holy shit, completed the cycle from Crinan/Lochgilphead to Glasgow last Friday in even worse weather conditions than the Fort William to Crinan cycle I did last week, there was non-stop heavy rain for almost the entire journey. Someone at Glasgow Central even asked if we’d been potholing which should give you some indication of the state we were in.
My computer packed up due to the rain, as did my rear light, so I’ve used the first two legs of the journey that I saved on MapMyRide and used Google Maps to calculate the third and final leg, in all I estimate the total cycle distance to be about 73 miles (117 km).
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Hill Gradient: 1 In 8
Fuck me! What a fucking nightmare. I don’t think the conditions could have been much worse for the Fort William to Crinan/Lochgilphead cycle.
The total distance for the route we took was approximately 83 miles, which took around 6 hours despite some good early pace; climbs and weather slowed us up significantly during the second half of the journey.
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