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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wedding
We all did the tea ceremony again and the banquet had similar yet subtly different food as it is all symbolic of wishes for the couples future and it was the effect of local produce, customs and traditions that made for variation. The preliminaries were long but the banquet surprisingly swift and then everyone but direct family left with a reverse receiving line to say goodbye
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Hundreds of photos
From 6 until 9 the slightly jet lagged couple were photographed with an endless stream of family, family friends and work colleagues.
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Wedding in hong kong
The Pleasant palace was the venue for the reception. Laurence's parents arranged from Australia for all the HK side of the family to gather and have the wedding feast again for those unable to be in Sydney for the wedding
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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Travelled into the mountains on Tuesday to visit the monastery of St Anthony the Great. There is a cave there where the mad were chained to cure them. Brother Michael, a very charismatic monk, told us all about it. The place was like Jenolan caves with a monastery. We then went further up the mountains to visit the tiny remaining cedar forest, preserved thanks to Queen Victoria who had a wall built around it to keep out goats. The mist came down and it was quite eerie.
Wednesday we walked around the old town, medieval, the citadel,Ottoman, and the archaeological site, Neolithic to Persian.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
In Tripoli today and I was surprised at how much more conservative and religious it was. We went to the Great Mosque and the citadel as well as wandering through the souk seeing the various khans that were the produce markets. We also were able to visit a disused ottoman hamman. It was in remarkable condition though it was a long time since it had been years for baths, very original in it's condition.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Lebanon
Today we went to Sidon which although it was a Phoenician city doesnot have much left of that period, the crusader castle was good and the traces of an Ottoman past are very clear
We also visited the soap museum which is mostly an excuse to sell u stuff. They did actually show you the process here are some columns of soap drying.
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We also visited the soap museum which is mostly an excuse to sell u stuff. They did actually show you the process here are some columns of soap drying.
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Whole day in Colchester was not actually enough, the museum in the castle on the site of Claudius' temple that Boudicca burnt was excellent. Great collection on the rebellion unsurprisingly. Some really good examples of roman pottery and quite a lot of metal as well. The heritage trail mostly followed the Roman wall diverting to churches frequently built with roman remains. I didn't get to the other 2 museums in the town or explore the extent of the park not to mention the zoo.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Simple one hour journey morphed into a major exercise as some dimwit stuffed his truck under a railway bridge at Diss and screwed the network. Finally arrived to find some other fuckwit had put the town at the top of a hill with the railway station at the bottom. Who is in charge and how come they are so disorganized?
Colchester is the oldest recorded town in England and mightily into myth building, the town hall has St Helena on it facing Jerusalem and holding a sword. This is supposedly her birth place as the daughter of the local king, Old King Cole that is.
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Colchester is the oldest recorded town in England and mightily into myth building, the town hall has St Helena on it facing Jerusalem and holding a sword. This is supposedly her birth place as the daughter of the local king, Old King Cole that is.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tour around bits of kings College and Pembroke today. The chapel at kings is amazing, the ratio of glass to wall is very high. It has graffito from Cromwell's visit still visible and Ann Boleyn's initials in the carving. Pembroke had nicer gardens and it's chapel tho small is a Christopher Wren. All the
flags flying today as the Queen was visiting
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flags flying today as the Queen was visiting
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Cambridge was humming today compared to the public holiday I arrived on. It's a real bicycle town and they swoop and whiz everywhere. Tourists were out in some numbers as well although they tend not to whiz. As part of a crowd I wandered along the streets and backs of the town the petals falling are so thick they coat the water in places. Narrow streets and tall stone and brick buildings bounce the noise of confident youth proclaiming itself down the footpath. I really can't imagine studying amidst all this glorious tradition and beauty
You would have to ignore it completely or be overwhelmed. How to be both envious and yet horrified at the thought of being presented with this as a fresher
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Ely today, wonderful cathedral but our friends the Victorians were very busy there so all is not quite as it seems, still it's absolutely fabulous and great fun. Went down to the river where masses of long boats were mores at the pubs by the side of the Great Ouse.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
I love Canterbury such a tourist town, wandering around in the half light at 8.30 at night with everything humming. Gulls wheel over the town and although the Cathedral is prominent it doesn't rule the town as the Pagan Pride parade yesterday proved. Commercialism is the true god I think. So many coffee and cake shops and ones selling really comfortable shoes in attractive designs and colours. Lots of charity shops as well as churches. There are Anglicans, Catholics, Anglican-Cathlics, Quakers, Methodists and Uniting as well as all the churches now used for something else, fun.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Today was Dover Castle. I climbed the hill from the town, bad idea, even walking down was a bad idea. But the castle was pretty amazing and covered all periods. There seems little trace of the iron age fort but the Roman, Anglo Saxon, medieval, early modern etc are all there to enjoy. I did the secret war tunnels tour the medieval and napoleonic spur trip and climbed the great hall, then visited the roman light hose and the Anglo church, restored by Victorians who you can't trust with a pile of bricks. My brain is full and my knees hurt, so I must have had a really satisfactory day.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Syracuse, the scene of the tragic end of Athenian ambition. We passed Etna on the way , vast and seemingly peaceful after the violent Roman mosaics
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Location:Floridia,Italy
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