Category Archives: Travel

Posts that would have gone or were in the old Travel Blog

Not a good start to the year in Spain

Posted on Monday, 2 January, 2012 by John

I’ve just finished talking to a friend in Spain and the whole conversation was taken up with the economy and the new government. After we finished I noticed that El Blog Salmon had an article today on exactly that problem; and you can read the article here. You would have thought that the PP had [...]

Posted in Politics, Spain - España | Tagged crisis, economy, el blog salmon, euro, PP, Rajoy, Spain - España | Leave a comment

Fountains Abbey – New Headers

Posted on Thursday, 24 March, 2011 by John

The new random headers have been cut from my Fountains Abbey set on Flickr which can be seen here.

The above photograph shows the eastern facade of the Chapel of the Nine Altars. Light conditions were very variable on the day I took the photographs and this is reflected in the different colours of the stone [...]

Posted in Admin/Changelog, Photography and Flickr, Travel, Video | Tagged abbey, Chapel of the Nine Altars, england, Fountains Abbey, gothic, monastery, Ripon, romanesque, ruins, slideshow, Travel, Yorkshire, youtube | Leave a comment

Viernes Santo, la Humildad – Úbeda, Semana Santa 2010

Posted on Tuesday, 9 November, 2010 by John

This is the penultimate of my Semana Santo videos and is taken from the General Procession on Good Friday night. I had missed the daytime procession of this cofradía (Real Cofradía del Santísimo Cristo de la Humildad y Nuestra Señora de la Fe) on Maunday Thursday but was amazed to find I had filmed almost [...]