Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice spread of images, Nathan. The love lock plague is a curse that infects Dublin too. It's mainly caused by tourists who assume they're in a theme park laid out for their benefit. Last week I was down in the Burren, Co. Clare and went to visit the early 13th Century abbey at Corcomroe. We were on our own until a busload of American tourists rolled up and disgorged a mainly elderly crew who gradually swarmed over the place. As the floor of the nave is heavily dotted with grave slabs from the various centuries, it acted as a magnet as they hunted for pre-Columbian dates on the slabs to ohs and ahs. Beside me, one woman stood on a slab and addressed one of her companions loudly "Nancy, I can't read this date as it's very worn". I remarked back that it was probably because too many people had walked on it just like she was doing, and ignored the signs saying not to do so just like she had. It pissed me off that their Irish driver had not emphasised to them before they came in to the abbey that such behaviour will rob future visitors of an experience. Douglas On 01/07/2018 08:57, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > After my 2 days in Warsaw in late June, I spent the weekend visiting my > sister in Wroc?aw, the city in SW Poland where I was born. It was nice to > be there during the summer, with decent (if cloudy) weather and long days, > conducive to photography. And conveniently, Ryanair has a direct flight to > Alicante on Sunday evenings, so it all worked great from a planning > perspective. > > The city has around 675,000 inhabitants and has undergone tremendous > renewal since the fall of Communism in 1989. It has become a much more > attractive place than the drab town in which I spent my early childhood in > the 1960s. > > A gallery of around 50 images is here. You have seen some of these places > in my earlier postings from Wroc?aw (especially the area around city > hall), but there are also ?new? places and new angles on old places: > > http://www.frozenlight.eu/wroclaw_june2018/ > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information