The Pantheon.
The Colesseum.
The Vatican.
Portofino. A beautiful little town with quite a few super yachts not too far away.
Montepulciano – a beautiful medieval cobbled streets town.
Venice. Our hotel was right next to the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal.
When in Rome, I mean Venice, you have to have a gondola ride.
The Blue Grotto. You need to lie down in the row boat to get through the small cave hole to get into this though worth it once you do.
We just got back from Vancouver and Seattle for a conference. Here are some photos.
The Capilano Suspension Bridge … reminded me of what the ground feels like during a quake.
Transport to the top of Grouse Mountain.
Transport to Victoria.
Victoria
The very first Starbucks.
Some photos from the Air and Space Museum.
The Blackbird Stealth Bomber
The Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Here are some pics from Havana. Cuba is certainly a surreal place!
Old cars!
A Havana Square.
The Capital Building.
The Capital Building at night not lit up as there is not sufficient electricity to light it up!
Did a tour in Savannah on a Segway. I want one!!!
This is one of the main highways – 4 lanes. A couple of interesting things. First, note the condition of the road. It was full of potholes and uneven surfaces and the driver frequently changed lanes or slowed down to avoid these. Second, where is the traffic? Not many can afford a car so not much traffic at all. In fact, look at the photo below to see how people get around in Cuba.
Hitching (and often paying for it) is the most common way to get around outside of the cities.
This is the major department store in Cienfuegos (about 150 000 people). I don’t think Harvey Norman has anything to be concerned about.
Rubbish collection in Cienfuegos.
This is my favourite – you’d take your chance wouldn’t you? Give up or run? Run! Mind you, if they catch you, have a look below to see where they send you.
The prison just outside of Cienfuegos.
I’m in Florida at the moment for a conference. This is the view from my hotel room, and I had anticipated going for a swim in the afternoon. Unfortunately, about an hour after this there was a tornado warning with an amazing thunder and lightening storm. That’ll teach me for being smug about an afternoon swim.
Some photos from the Empire State Building – not a bad view!
These photos are the clean streets, yet just off them, well, not terribly pleasant.
This is an overview of Trinidad.
This is a typical street (although this one isn’t cobbled). And yes, more horses and carts than cars!
This is the image on the quarter coin (see below) – a famous Trinidad scene.
Here is a picture of the inside of the Cuban plane (which was filthy by the way) as we landed. It looks like smoke but imagine it is vapour of some sort. Both when landing in Cuba and back in Mexico, the passengers clapped once the plane landed! I don’t recall these two things occurring on any Air New Zealand flight.
