Author Archives: dipidydoo
FAFFING DAY
Sunrise in Riga this morning was at 4.43 am. Sunset is at 10.14 pm tonight. Daylight hours are long at this time of the year. Blackout curtains are a must if you want to sleep! After yesterday’s hail and torrential downpours, we woke to rain again this morning. It seems to be that it rains […]
IN RAIN HAIL & SHINE.
The sprint Orienteering is done and we have a rest day tomorrow. The day started out cool and damp and we were able to walk to the start beneath a national monument in a park on the edge of the CBD. Ilze was able to get away early and found the going damp underfoot and […]
IT WAS A LONG WAY FOR A TURKISH TAKE-AWAY
Sorry there was no blog yesterday. Our arrival from Istanbul did not go well, delayed by 90 minutes and found that our driver had given up and left and despite Ilse’s language skills we couldn’t work out if he was coming back to get us. We waited another half an hour and then gave up […]
Kedis and Kamekazes
It’s our final day sightseeing in Istanbul. Tomorrow is a travel day, and we’re off to Latvia. After visiting the Aya Sofya yesterday morning, in the afternoon we went to see the Galata Tower, on the “Asia” side of the Golden Horn of Istanbul. It’s a very tall medieval stone tower built in 1348 and […]
THREE TIMES A LADY
When Ilze and I first came here seven years ago it was just a stop over to compete in the Istanbul 5 Day Orienteering. I was prepared not to like it much and I now freely admit that I got it so very wrong. Many people still do. Lately I have become a student of […]
4.30 am !!
Whether you are a devout Muslim or not, each day starts an hour before sunrise, this morning at 4.30 am, with the first of five daily calls to prayer, broadcast very loudly from every minaret in Sultantahmet. One Mosque will start the process, and is joined one by one by all the others in the […]
LIFE AT THE POINTY END
LIFE AT THE POINTY END. Ilze and I took off for our European Adventure late on Saturday afternoon having faced the scorn and pointed barbs hurled at us by the Street O mob when we failed to venture out on the course due to the pouring rain, but we were all frocked up in our […]
I Need My Space
The real purpose of the trip to Brisbane was to visit the NASA 50th anniversary exhibition “The Human Adventure”. We set off bright and early, heading across the river to Southbank, for our 10am admission slot. The website advised to allow 90 minutes to see everything. Four hours later … It was amazing. It told […]
The Wilds of Indooroopilly
This morning we flew to Brisbane for a couple of days, to visit the touring NASA exhibition, which is not coming to Melbourne. We planned this several months ago; however it wasnt until last weekend that I thought to check the orienteering calendar. Sure enough, there was a Tuesday NightNav event on in Brisbane, or […]
What goes up…..!
What goes up, goes up even further. Debbie has already blogged about the adventures on the Skyline yesterday. She asked me to add a bit about my experience since I had a crack at it. I have only just stopped shaking enough to be able to type. That, of course, as with all of my […]
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