2000 Pictures in Chronological order



Snow

With Conny at Biberweir

Timothy

With Sarah and Conny

Sarah and her admiring parents





Visit from James and Edward Barbour
February 2000



New York skyline from the hotel


Visit to Berne Avenue
March 2000

The old bathroom



The new suite





The Ammer Falls

with Irmgard and the Alpspitz










Central Italy with Pat and Eric Whittle
May 2000

Outside Eric's caravan

Radicofani; decorating the streets with flower petals


With Eric and Pat

Della Robbia Altar


Santa Agata Church, Radicofani




Rocca Fortress

With Eric and Pat in Sienna


Piazza del Campo, Sienna




Santa Maria Assunta, Siena

Piccolomini Library










Orvieto Cathedral




Pozzo di San Patrizio, Orvieto








Cathedral in Chiusi



Cathedral of San Rufino




Düsseldorf: Timothy and Stephen

Cruise to the Faroes and Iceland with Melanie
June 2000

The Multianovskiy, our cruise vessel.
a former Russian Research Vessel

Melanie and Pat on board

Leaving Aberdeen Harbour


A brief stop at North Rona

Attempted excursion: Melanie: centre

Misty and too rough to land

Suderoy, The Faroe Islands

Vagur on Suderoy




Mulanovskiy in the bay







Gull's eggs



First of many puffins















Tjomuvik















Mykines





Puffins everywhere


with Fellow travellers


The Mulanovskiy from above


Across the North Atlantic to Iceland





The pilot boat to Hoffn





A fulmar


Pat and Melanie






Looking for a large G&T



Eider Ducks



Artic Terns
















Our travel group

Heimay, the Westerman Islands




Eidfell






Volcanic landscpe

Approaching the Multanovskiiy




Sturtsey, formed by a volcanic eruption in 1963




Visit to Tewksbury Abbey
July 2nd 2000



Visit to the Model Steam Rally to see Steam Traction Engines
July 2nd 2000



Model Steam Fairground attraction




The Grand Parade



Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough
July 9th 2000




34081, 92nd Suadron on the Nene Valley Railway

Felicity

Fiona

Düsseldorf to visit Sarah and Timothy
July 18th 2000

Timothy

Sarah






Orchids and a Fratillary

South West united States
Salt Lake City & Reno
August 2000


Handcart Pioneer Monument

With Bill Stockwell and Gian

with Bill Stockwell

Lake Tahoe

Duck family on Lake Tahoe

The Donner Memorial

Weather Prophet Rock

SW-USA: Canyonlands National Park

Utah Geology Map

Island in the Sky



Neck Spring Trail

Shafer trail ...

... in panorama ...

...

Arches National Park
10th August 2000

Arches_Geology_Map







Coyote


Castle Valley





Moab: Butterflies






Moab: Humming Birds






Our 4-wheel Drive vehicle







Hovenweep




Cumbres & Toltec Railroad, Chama, New Mexico



Coaling Depot

Snow Plough

Santa Fe

The Goveneror's Palace


Astrolabes



The Santa Fe Opera

The Bandalier National Monument

Aztect Ruins, Aztec NM




Pat ascending the ladder

Emerging on the roof of a Kiva



Deer

Roofless Kiva

Ship Rock, New Mexico

Canyon de Chelly National Monument











Monument Valley

Lake Powell Boating






Colorado River

Lees Ferry

Grand Canyon, North Rim



Wildforss Trail


Cape Royal



Escalante National Monument



Lower Calf Creel Falls











With Kerry Kelly in Salt Lake City

Red Bute Gardens

Kerry with Pat

Kerry with Peter & Two Others!

Moth

Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Large Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Cricket?



Patricia on the summit, with the Hirschbühel behind

On the summit with the Kramer behind

With the Hoher Fricken to the right, behind


The Kramer

Boating on the Llangollen Canal with Anne and Bill
September 2000

Picking up the boat at Trevor; with Anne & Bill


On the Pontecysyllte Aqueduct


The splenidid acqueduct

Towards Llangollen

Being photographed on the aqueduct

The River Dee from the aqueduct

Crossing the aqueduct

A lifting accomodation bridge


The Chirk Tunnel


The Chirk aqueduct and railway viaduct

Moored not far from Whitchurch


Ellesmere

Back through the Chirk Tunnel

Across the River Dee

Bremen Visit
October 2000

Bremen


The Town Hall


The Cathedral



At the EXPO 2000 in Hannovder




Argentia, 2000
Boating in Tigre with the boys

Charlie and James, with Granddad arriving

James


Will


Will. James and Charlie

Dad (Michael) with Will


Will


James


An ancient tree


The Port of Buenos Aires





A walk (6km) in the Tierra del Fuego National Park


Geese on the shore




Cowslip




Buffed Necked Ibis


Cruise from Ushuaia to Punto Arenas

The Terra Austalis; our boat
delivered our luggage before our walk


Departure from Ushuaia


Pia Glacier

Reflection!

Boat Drill




Peter (waving) departing on a trip!

The Beagle Channel


Straights of Magellan

Garibaldi Glacier


Walk in the primeval forest


scrambling up


Rough scramble down







Brookes Bay

The last evening on board

Our table for meals


Magellan Penguins


Off Magdalena Island


Marauda: Great Black Backed Gull


Gulls nestig


Penguins nesting




Off for breakfast?

Punta Arenas to El Calafate
November 2000

Magellan Monument in Punta Arenas

Black necked Swans near Puerta Natales



The only stop on the 250 km road

Lake Argentino

Condor

The Moreno and other glciers
November 2000

The Moreno Valley







The Glacier (just calved to the left)




Moreno Glacier calving

About to calve





Climbing up on to the glacier

Melt runnels






The Moreno vallley

with the expedition leader

A blue, recently calved iceberg

?

Condors


Upsala Glacier


Condors, nesting


Glacier Onelli


A pair of condors

Boat trip on the Upsala Glacier


Lago Roca for lunch

Geese


Buenos Aires and the Footballing Grandsons
November 2000

William

Charlie


James

All three


With Granddad and Dad and a friend

Wasp?

With Granddad in the pool


James

All three

Out for our farewell lunch with Nicky, Mike and Grandma

Steak, of course

The harbour with a long distance yacht racr, moored

In the park

Staffordshire: Berne Avenue
December 2000

The hat competition
Angela Drakis-Smith, Sheila Morgan, Traudi Plesch, Janet Milward, Margaret Pease, Kathie Dixon

Ehrwalder Strasse; The three dimensional jig-saw puzzle of Neuschwanstein
December 2000






Visit to Düsseldorf
December 2000

Sarah

Timothy

Swing in the park

Granddad with the two grandchildren

Sarah

Timothy

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