Leigh in Azerbaijan

The weekend is over and Sally, Chee Wan, Lisa and I have started planning the trip to Iran in the October break.  One slightly worrying thing is that on Late Night Live in June one specialist said, when asked about Israel’s potential for unilaterally bombing Iran, that the month before George W’s rule comes to [...]

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I arrived in Dubai around 2am and was lucky enough to find a stretcher in the “Quiet Lounge” where I guess I slept for two hours. That probably meant I had around 8 hours sleep over the previous 24 hours - my body didn’t quite believe it however.

This is a crap photo but it shows [...]

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Part of the Edinburgh free walking tour included some J.K. Rowling sites that are sacred for the young reader.

The Elephant House cafe was the venue where the struggling JK Rowling went to write the first Harry Potter book.  Going there meant that she didn’t have to heat her flat.

This shot of The Elephant House cafe [...]

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A few pictures to encourage you to visit Riga:
There are endless streets of ancient buildings all of the same height .
Then there are rows of terraced homes and shops,
and on the end of this row was this advertisement for a local bank:
Here’s some surviving city wall:
and here’s [...]

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I’m out by a day or two I know, but maybe that’s the reason the whole town has closed down. The people have retained the feel of the ancient town that it is.  Everywhere I walked were photo’s that were meant to be taken but you have to make decisisions sometime.   I didn’t see a building over [...]

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