Old photos of Iasi Ioana, 24 September 202427 July 2025 Iasi is the city in the eastern part of Romania where we are from. These are some old photos of what it looked like in the 90s. And in the 2000s. Repedea Hill is a nice placed to learn geology, have a picnic, or just admire a nice panoramic view… Continue Reading
France – Bretagne 1995 Ioana, 24 September 202417 June 2025 School exchange trips were a thing when I was in high school, as it forced us to practice the foreign language that we had studied. I went on one of these trips in 1995 to live for a few weeks with the family of a girl in Rouen in France…. Continue Reading
UK 1995 Ioana, 24 September 202417 June 2025 I went to the UK in 1995 for two weeks as part of a school program aimed to enhance our English skills by living (and speaking) with a local family. This was before I had any idea about how to take good photos and before I knew that senior moments… Continue Reading
Whale Watching on the way to Rottnest Ioana, 22 September 202417 June 2025 We left the pen early in the morning to enjoy the flat ocean in the light easterly breeze. We saw the dismasted Leewin II again, and the dented roof of the WA Maritime Museum, before we hit the whirlpool at the heads. Khalil Gibran’s lines came to mind “It is… Continue Reading
Mexican Navy Tall Ship in Fremantle Ioana, 22 September 202413 July 2025 The Mexican Navy have a sail training vessel called ARM Cuauhtemoc, that visited Fremantle for 3 days. We did not see it coming into port or leaving, but the photos surely looked impressive. We were lucky enough to be able to visit it during one of the two days that it… Continue Reading