Window seats are also wonderful. (I'm not talking about sitting in the back of a plane, but about the ones in houses. Or apartments - like mine. Probably best when they have cushion material on the seat part, but when they don't just drag your couch into position for a comfy place to relax and have a view. When looking out from the low position on my couch, the car park is just out of view, leaving only the best parts of the pretty green hill visible. It brings in so much daylight (hence the terrible photo).
Cheers to that! Now, shall we sit and have a drink? Please join me for a wee bit of craic.
What's the difference between melted chocolate and cocoa powder in a cake recipe? I tried both ways and ate the results, (obviously, otherwise how on earth would I know?). According to my experiment you will have a lighter, fluffier crumb with cocoa, and a more dense, silkier texture with melted chocolate. Now what about grated chocolate, eh?
Clear skies over Europe.
It's just too bad photos out of a plane never do the actual view justice.
But the clouds were giving us a gift yesterday, so I'll share that with you!
East London and the river Thames. You could actually pick out the parliament/Big Ben area, Westminster Catchedral and bridge over to the London Eye (more to the west). However the refraction off the moisture in the air with the angle of the sun made a proper photo of that area impossible.
The mouth of the Thames into the North Sea is on the left, and the shortest gap in the English channel straight ahead. It's only about half as far again as it is from Tswassen to Active Pass, (in case that reference means anything to you). Totally swim-able! Lol
This is the north coast of France, looking south west. The cities of Outreau and Boulogne-sur-Mer are below. The inlet approximately in the center of the photo is at Étaples, and the larger one further along is La Baie de Somme, Dieppe is basically unidentifiable in the distance beyond that.
This farmland outside of Lille looked like a painting to us.
The Alps were the most impressive part. Zurich is off the other side of the plane so you mainly see Vierwaldstättersee and the Swiss Alps. Could we add this area to the list of best places to live??? I think so. We flew past Davos, a small town of elite fame including an annual hockey tournament as well as the location of the annual congregation of leading power houses in economics and politics, plus it has a renowned ski resort. If you were so rich and influential as to go to the Davos conference, I think you'd arrive by helicopter. Otherwise you'd have to drive like the rest of us earthlings.
Or parachute?
Venice is that brown blob in the middle. A strange city arrangement and incidentally not very bright at night.
Feeling a bit like we were on the Truman Show, I tried to capture the texture of the sky in this photo.
It looks like paper mâché. About 48 degrees north, about 11pm local time, mid Europe.
Noctilucent - Mesospheric Cloud, Type 2
There is little information about this type of cloud formation as it occurs only in summer, when cooling in the mesosphere (approximately ten times the altitude of cirrus cloud - the highest cloud in the tropopause where our weather exists) is the lowest. What's special about a Noctilucent formation is you can only view this cloud during twilight, and here we were lucky enough to see it! The condensation nuclei are said to be particles of meteorites.
I took a walk on a path called Dungonnell Way. It's up toward the north east. I think I must have read the miles as kilometres so it ended up being longer than I'd expected. Over three hours is a long walk. Therefore I should have had lots of time to take pictures with my phone to show you, but I only brought my camera... So we will have to wait for those shots. What's definitely worse is I walked the full distance in Wellyboots, due to two otherwise impassible stretches, so I'm still feeling my poor tootsies three days later. But like most things, there was a silver lining. I was thinking of walking with my dad, so I started singing some of the silly songs we used to sing on walks such as this. Do you know 'Good Ol' Mountain Dew'? It's an old favourite. My rendition certainly keeps the bears at bay, banjo or no banjo (bear country or not). Anyway, as tradition had it, and all that time(!) I made up new verses. Six to be exact. One may just be about you. ;)
Ice cream cake. Chocolate-coconut ice cream cake.
I wish you could see the edible gold dust I added as a finale.
Citrus crazy!
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