Fun Stuff: April 2010 Archives
Two years ago today the sweetie and I took off on our honeymoon.
It wasn't very well planned. Apart from where we were going to be for how many nights, almost nothing was planned in advance. We did a lot of our planning when we arrived in cities with Wikipedia. But it still turned out really well, except for a couple of not so great days.
I said at the end of it that "Hopefully it won't take two years to do like my USA photos did..." and now here it is.. two years later...! So I went on a mission over the last couple of weeks to select highlights for my photo site and from those highlights for the blog entries. I haven't finished yet, but I've made decent enough progress. Hopefully I'll keep ahead of myself to link to each new day as it comes.
So. Day 1. We left Sydney at Stoopid O'Clock and flew to Narita in Japan. Had a walk around Narita and dinner a cute little restaurant.
Here it is! Day 1 of our honeymoon, exactly two years ago today....
Had my first ever Big Mac today. I've never ever had one before, so since we were going to Maccas I thought I'd try one :)
It wasn't very big. I was starving by 5:30pm. I did like the special sauce though.
I also got the rest of the Toy Story minifigs.. how cute are these? :)
Me being the obsessive person that I am, decided to find the locations of some of the opening scenes in The Sound of Music.
This one stumped me:
.. because in some of the "movie location" websites, it's stated that the castles they fly over include Schloss Fuschl on Fuschlsee. I don't have a screenshot to prove that they *didn't* film that one, but I did take screen shots of two castles in close up - the one above, and another that was easy to find - Schloss Anif south of Salzburg.
So the picture above was annoying me. I wanted to know where it was dammit!
Well Google Earth to the rescue!
Spent a good half an hour touring the lakes of Austria trying to find it. Did a search for schloss in the area but still couldn't find it. Then did a search for church, and finally a search for Kloster. And there it was - Kloster Höglwörth in Germany! Not in Austria's Lake District at all!
Anyway.. moving on ...
We picked up a bag of these Lindt Fioretto Limette Lime Lindt Balls when we arrived in Frankfurt and finished them a few days later in Berlin. They were epic win!!! Have been wanting more ever since!!
So this time I was home, and had a tripod :)
Time: 19:10:02Alt: 10Az: SW
Max AltitudeTime: 19:12:26Alt: 51Az: WSW
EndsTime: 19:12:26Alt: 51Az: WSW
Magnitude: -2.5Exposure: 10 seconds
Time: 19:10:02Alt: 10Az: SW
Max AltitudeTime: 19:12:26Alt: 51Az: WSW
EndsTime: 19:12:26Alt: 51Az: WSW
Magnitude: -2.5Exposure: 10 seconds
As we were arriving at Libby's last night we saw the International Space Station soaring overhead. Had I been home I would have had the tripod out and documented the occasion. As it was I whipped the camera out and documented it hand held style.
This is what a 2.5 second exposure looks like hand held and zoomed a bit .. (first pic has Southern Cross pointers on the left for reference - the ISS went between these and then disappared into the earth's shadow)
Start
Time: 18:46:00
Alt: 10
Az: SSW
Max Altitude
Time: 18:48:34
Alt: 30
Az: SSE
Ends
Time: 18:48:34
Alt: 30
Az: SSE
Magnitude: -2.2
Haven't done anything like this for a while.. stolen off Dave2
Bold for which ones I've visited.
- Pyramids of Egypt
- Chichen Itza
- Pompeii
- Mont St Michel
- Great Wall of China
- Petra
- Kashmir Valley
- Topkapi Palace
- Taj Mahal
- Nile River Cruise
- Prague Old Town
- Carnival in Rio
- Serengeti Migration
- Easter Island
- Golden Temple
- Stonehenge
- Galapagos Islands
- Cappadocia
- Amalfi Drive
- Angel Falls
- Grand Canyon
- Colosseum of Rome
- Meenakshi
- Yellowstone National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Fjords of Norway
- Chartres Cathedral
- Santorini
- Antarctica Cruise
- St Peter’s Basilica
- Mezquita Cordoba
- Matterhorn
- Iguazu Falls
- Egyptian Museum
- Damascus Old City
- New York Skyline
- Bali
- Borobudur
- Dubrovnik
- Marrakesh
- Amazon Rain Forest
- Valley of the Kings
- Uffizi Gallery
- Eiffel Tower
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Hong Kong
- Rio Panoramic View
- Ladakh
- Great Barrier Reef
- Sistine Chapel
- Golden Pavilion
- Niagara Falls
- Angkor Wat
- Burj Khalifa
- Delphi
- British Museum
- Victoria Falls
- Alhambra
- St. Basil’s Cathedral
- Burj al Arab
- Forbidden City
- Louvre Museum
- Abu Simbel
- Yangtze River Cruise
- Bagan
- Canals of Venice
- St Mark’s Basilica
- Yosemite
- Karnak
- Versailles
- Florence Cityscape
- Ayers Rock
- Teotihuacan
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Kremlin
- Hermitage Museum
- Banaue Rice Terraces
- Mecca
- Varanasi/Ganges
- Chambord Chateau
- Bora Bora
- Kathmandu Valley
- Li River Cruise
- Lijiang/Shangri La
- Acropolis
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Shwedagon Stupa
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Potala Palace
- Mt Everest
- Sahara Desert
- Banff National Park
- Jerusalem Old City
- Temple of the Emerald Buddha
- Leaning Tower Pisa
- San Francisco
- TerraCotta Warriors
- Hagia Sofia
- Baalbek
- Portofin
That was a bit boring actually .. only been to eleven of those places.. oh well..