January 16th, 2010
No need for a long post – just click on the image there to see some pictures from a nice little outing we did today. After over a week of sub-zero temperatures, the canals have frozen, and are full of people skittering around on ice skates and playing “ice stock sport” – a Bavarian equivalent [...]
Tags: ice skating, nymphenburg
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December 27th, 2009
For Christmas I ordered some photo prints (original photos, taken by me) from an online mail-order service. The quality was great, and they arrived 2 days after submitting the order, but one thing bugged me about them – on the back of each photo was a watermark from Kodak, advertising that this photo has been [...]
Tags: copyright, kodak, photo
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October 27th, 2009
Too often blogs are all about complaining, what went wrong, which company screwed you over… Time for something different: I had a problem with my camping cooker: a bad soldered joint on the base broke rendering the cooker useless. I was especially annoyed because the two year guarantee had just ran out. Still – I [...]
Tags: omnifuel, primus
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October 22nd, 2009
After a few months, I’ve finally got round to putting together a selection of our Alaska photos online! It’s too big of a story to write here… We saw whales, moose, bears, eagles, a wolf and lots more impressive wildlife We climbed mountains, walked on glaciers. We had great weather – it only rained one [...]
Posted in By Robin, Hiking, Wildlife | 1 Comment »