5th June - World Environment Day
[Text Box:] The United Nations World Environment Day is its principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action, this year, on beating plastic pollution. “If you can‘t re-use it refuse it” is the current theme.
My History of Photography
Blade Runner 2049
Although Harrison Ford received a lot of notices for this movie, he only appears during the second half. The male hero is Ryan Gosling who plays Officer K. It is still a great movie and one that you end up feeling is of the newer, more “modern” era.
Thailand and Malaysia
I am going to work through a couple of trips that I went on – the first to Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand - and a whole country that I have always loved, not because of the cities and places, but because of the people..
Lisbon/Cascais
I went to Lisbon the first time just before the revolution, over fifty ears ago, when I was in the Royal Air Force. I went back to revisit and to show it all to my wife over a couple of days, just a week or so ago.
The first visit was to the Portuguese Air Force base at Montijo, just over the water form Lisbon. We were supporting a NATO exercise, but like all other exercises it was not really well researched, and the Portuguese turned out as experts with the kind of equipment that we had on offer.
FENCING AS A SPORT
As a sixteen-year old boy I had joined the RAF, and fencing became the good news out of a lot of bad. I joined the fencing club because it was an exciting, new thing to do. There was cross-country running and swimming too from a huge selection, so I was as happy as a much smaller child
ANDALUSIAN
Hailing from the Iberian Peninsula, the Andalusian takes its name from the Province of Andalucia, where it was most famous. This living antiquity is purported to be an ancient breed; 20,000-year-old cave drawings show a similar type of horse and Homer mentions the horses in the Illiad (1,100 B.C.).
Venice
(and Milan and Rome)
I visited Vienna twice, once as a serviceman and as once year later, as a civilian.
I have decided to write some notes about places that I have been and, most importantly, what I learned about them from my position (then) as the owner of quite a successful risk management organisation.
Mexico City
I am Norman,a Nubie (new person). I will be writing in English about things that have happened in Spain, or things that are Spanish, and have been adopted by other countries around the world. I am an Englishman and have lived in Toledo since the beginning of this century (that sounds like a long time but it is not - and I am married to a Spanish lady).
I hope that you have a very happy Christmas and New Year and I look forward chatting to you during the coming year.