Seems I’ll need to let this series sleep for a bit, since there’s no travel currently in my schedule that’ll take me near mountains, unless I get lucky on a flight again. Alps in Switzerland or Austria on my way home from Rome, back in June.
These are your first glimpses of the Castle and Park at Rosendael, a town just uphill from Velp where you may recall I spent two lovely nights at the end of my August bike tour of Central NL.
Thailand’s King Rama IV is recognized for many things including the accurate prediction of a total solar eclipse in August 1868, indicative, one reads, of his ability to move Thailand towards modernity and resist Western colonial expansionism through diplomacy. Amongst many legacies, he’s remembered in this statue at Bangkok’s Lumphini Park, and, yes, The King & I. 🙂
Last shots from my own little pocket phone camera of the aurora, taken on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of January. Do view these on a larger screen if you really want to see them, in a low-lit room ideally. I fear that otherwise, many of you seeing this on your phone screen under bright surrounding conditions will think I’ve posted a bunch of black box photos. 🙂
Tips for anyone who might want to view them: don’t rush when you get the alert; instead, put on your layers of undergarments, middle garments and wind-proof outer garments. Expect to want to spend time looking at dark skies that your eyes tell you are just showing a bit of mist, until you notice the mist moves around, changes shape, and appears in different parts of the sky. The real life experience is less visually dramatic than what you will see in calendars, or in your own photos if you get a tripod and quality lens, etc. But it’s far more variable and awe-inspiring, from my own experience.
Alps in Switzerland or Austria on my way home from Rome, back in June.
(so much world, so little time....) 