We launched this series in August 2023, after Nikos & I had done a swing through Het Loo palace and museum in Appeldoorn. So this was my first visit since then to London, home to that most quintessential royal head-of-state institution full of pomp and circumstance (and a fairly high level of dignity, compared to some other global heads of state one can think of). So although really the weekend was all about celebrating Howard’s 60th birthday, I simply had to post my first ever blog shots of this well known royal location.
A bit of the English west coast, I believe (I feel like I remember thinking I might finally see Liverpool from the air, but if anyone who knows the coast better can say different, lmk), as seen from the airplane approaching Amsterdam when I returned from my long US visit earlier this year.
Above, the piece of the southeastern coast of England, and below 15 minutes later with the Dutch coast dimly visible behind many offshore wind turbines. All from mid-May’s return to A’dam after the US weeks.
Sticking with my theme of using up more of 2023’s photos before taking my break, herewith all the remaining from-the-air shots of 2023. They’re in chronological order, so you first see my plane passing over the Dutch coast on 6 November en route to Dublin, then more of the English coast both on the east side (North Sea) and the west side (Irish Sea – so far as I could tell, we passed roughly over Liverpool, but clouds…), and then two 29 November images of the island of Penang and the sea north of it as we approached landing after my flight from Qatar to Penang (with a stop in Phuket); and, finally, 6 December photos as our plane traveled up the coasts of Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar en route from KL to Yangon. Not really sure which islands we’re seeing in these various shots, but fairly sure most were islands in Myanmar by this point.
I do so love when I can look out the plane window and see something that exactly corresponds to the map. This is the little bay just north of Norfolk. It’s on a fairly straight line between Amsterdam and Dublin, so we flew right over it en route to Dublin last week. Might’ve done on the way back as well, but, well, clouds…
Last shots from my work-from-London week in mid-May: The Shard as seen from near the Tate Modern, and a lovely old school building near where I stayed.
(so much world, so little time....) 