Saturday, August 22, 2015

Terrific Terrigal

Terrigal Haven is an extraordinary place in this world: several seafood restaurants sprinkled along a quiet golden Beach, a suburban football ground with weight for age teams fighting out their rostered games. Scores of spectator vehicles competing not only with the beachgoers and restaurant customers but hundreds of tourists. The tourists are there to walk the Skillian a dramatic green ski slope of a headland poking into the blue-green Tasman Sea. 
Sheltered from the winds, it was warm in the early South Hemisphere Spring, exotic vehicles featured. Two stood out for me: a simple retro Vespa and a magnificent and immaculate green chopperised Harley. 


Monday, August 3, 2015

Accidental reporting

In the Luxumerg area for a movie. Came out to find a major drama on the street. One of the Japanese restaurants on rue Monsieur le Prince had burst into flames but had been doused. We watched as the Pompiers painstakingly checked each of the apartments above for people who may have been overcome by smoke.
Meanwhile as the second photo shows, Parisians continue with their Sunday dinners just beyond the Police cordon.


Like death and taxes, the gullible are always with us

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