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El Tropicana Night Club in Havana, Cuba, January 2023
Spain, Caribbean and The Azores, January and February 2023
Spain
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Vigo, Spain, January 2023
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Vigo, Spain, January 2023
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Vigo, Spain, January 2023
Madeira
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Funchal. Madeira January 2023
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Funchal. Madeira January 2023
Barbados
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Speightstown, Barbados, January 2023
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Drinking Rum in Barbados!
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Bridgetown, Barbados, January 2023
Grenada
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St. Georges, Grenada
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Grenada Spices and Rum
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Grenada Waterfall
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Grenada Women and Grenada Spice Seller
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Grenada Jungle
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Rooster
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St. Georges, Grenada
St. Vincent
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St. Vincent January 2023
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Kingstown St. Vincent
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Kingstown St. Vincent
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Kingstown St. Vincent
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Kingstown St. Vincent
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Botanical Gardens St. Vincent
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Botanical Gardens St. Vincent
Jamaica
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Coconut Seller, Jamaica
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Young Coconut
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Jamaican Goat
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Trelawny Parish Church Jamaica
Cuba
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A local band in Santiago de Cuba has a new maracas player
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Fidelidad al Son live at Casa de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba.
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Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba
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Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba
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View from Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda
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View from Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda
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Havana is full of Classic America Cars
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Classic America Cars
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Classic America Cars
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Our 1953 Cadillac
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Inside a 1953 Cadillac
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Original straight 6 engine, 1953 Cadillac
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Castillo del Morro Cuba
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Castillo del Morro Cuba
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Castillo del Morro Cuba
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Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana.
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Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana.
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Cafe Del Angel, Havana.
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Cafe Del Angel, Havana.
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El Cobre Basilica
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El Cobre Basilica
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Castro's Tomb, Santiago de Cuba.
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Havana
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Dancer at Club Tropicana, Havana.
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Most of Cuba is poor and very rural.
Cayman Islands
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Beach Bar, Cayman Islands
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A place called Hell, Cayman Islands
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Hell, Cayman Islands.
British Virgin Islands
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British Virgin Islands February 2023
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British Virgin Islands February 2023
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British Virgin Islands February 2023
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British Virgin Islands February 2023
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Callwood Rum Distillery, British Virgin Islands
Antigua
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Antigua February 2023
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Antigua February 2023
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Antigua February 2023
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Eric Clapton's House, Antigua February 2023
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Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
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Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
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Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
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Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
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Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
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Ponta Delagada, Azores
Plymouth, March 2023
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The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
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The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
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The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
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The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
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Plymouth Gin Distillery
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Plymouth Gin Distillery
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Plymouth, March 2023
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Ocean View at The Dome, Plymouth.
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Plymouth Hoe
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Trerice Elizabethan Manor House
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Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
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Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
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Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
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Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
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Porthgwarra Cove
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Porthgwarra Cove
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Porthgwarra Cove
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Mid 15th Century Wall Painings, St Breaca Church, Breage
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Mid 15th Century Wall Painings, St Breaca Church, Breage
St. Breaca Church was built of granite in the mid-15th-century. On the north wall are five medieval wall paintings and theĀ Warning to the Sabbath-Breakers, intended to discourage sabbath breaking and blasphemy.
St Nonna Church, Altarnun
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St Nonna Church, Altarnun
St. Nonna's Church in Altanun is known as "the Cathedral of the Moors" and is justly famed for its collection of 79 carved bench ends. It is unusual for work of this kind to be
signed; however this is. The signature is to be found on the bench end next to the font. The inscription is worn, but enough remains to be able to make out that all the bench ends were carved by Robart Daye between 1510 and 1530. The carvings have survived the Reformation, The Civil War, which raged all around, and Victorian restorations. They represent not only biblical references but also earlier superstitions and local activities.
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Bench End carved by Robart Daye between 1510 - 1530, St Nonna Church, Altarnun
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St Nonna Church, Altarnun
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Boscastle
Bermuda, May / June 2023 - Verity's Wedding
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Bermuda, May 2023
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Bermuda Day May 2023
We left over a week of clear blue skies and beautiful sunny (but not too hot) weather in Cornwall, for the wettest May Bermuda has had since 1949! The weather was mixed as evidenced by the downpour during the Bermuda Day parade, but sunny and cool at times. We Brits were accused of bringing our weather with us. Some locals claimed never to have seen fog before. However, the cool weather suited us on the wedding day as it was protection against the usual heat, sunburn and humidity for the celebrations, which were all outside.
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Clair and I spent a week before the wedding exploring Bermuda and were delighted to meet the full extended family of our wonderful new Bermudian in-laws. Their generosity and hospitality is monumental. General consensus is that it was the best wedding ever.
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Cigar smoking outside our Bermuda air b'n'b
Summer 2023 - Cornwall
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Cornish hedgerows bathed in summer sun.
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Antony House, Torpoint
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Broomhill Tearoom, Antony Woodland Garden
We returned from Bermuda to find the fine summer weather had remained in Cornwall
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Tall Ships, Falmouth August 2023
Autumn 2023
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Black Sabbath - The Ballet
No - you didn't misread the poster. We saw Birmingham Royal Ballet perform a Black Sabbath ballet at The Theatre Royal in Plymouth. A surprisingly popular event that sold out in Birmingham, London ad Plymouth. The first act was superb, with a couple dancing a memorable perpetual kiss. A great night out and a good opportunity to stay again in Plymouth's Barbican area.
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38 Years since we met. Afternoon tea at Carbis Bay.
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Sibton Park, Suffolk
Sister 4/4 celebrated a big birthday by renting Sibton Park in Suffolk for her siblings and their families (about 30 of us) for a weekend. A murder mystery formal dinner and a treasure hunt amongst other events made a great family occasion. More pictures of this stunning 13-bedroom, 19th Century, Georgian Manor house are here. It was the second time this year that we were all together after a fabulous wedding in Bermuda.
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The basement at my London club has had some refurbishment.
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The Nutcracker Dec 2023
Fal Estuary Walk Christmas 2023
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Dog Walk Christmas 2023 Holywell Beach Cornwall
Back to Dubai - January 2024
Living in beautiful Cornwall and being an elected coucillor was very rewarding, but I have a new contract. Clair and I are happily moving back to Dubai.
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Dubai Creek January 2024
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View from our 30th Floor balcony - February 2024
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Sheikh Zayed Road from the 43rd floor rooftop of our building.
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