France – Bretagne 1995 Ioana, 24 septembrie 202417 iunie 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 septembrie 202417 iunie 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 septembrie 202417 iunie 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 septembrie 202413 iulie 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
WRC Rally Cyprus 2003 Ioana, 15 septembrie 202417 iunie 2025 20th – 22nd of June 2003 Lots of photos of cars. The rally village was in Limassol and the stages were in the hills and mountains surrounding it. Peter Solberg won the event. A very short clip from one of the corners can be seen here. Continue Reading