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El Tropicana Night Club in Havana, Cuba, January 2023
Spain, Caribbean and The Azores, January and February 2023
Spain
Vigo, Spain, January 2023
Vigo, Spain, January 2023
Vigo, Spain, January 2023
Madeira
Funchal. Madeira January 2023
 
Funchal. Madeira January 2023
Barbados
Speightstown, Barbados, January 2023
Drinking Rum in Barbados!
Bridgetown, Barbados, January 2023
Grenada
St. Georges, Grenada
Grenada Spices and Rum
Grenada Waterfall
 
Grenada Women and Grenada Spice Seller
Grenada Jungle
Rooster
St. Georges, Grenada
St. Vincent
St. Vincent January 2023
Kingstown St. Vincent
Kingstown St. Vincent
Kingstown St. Vincent
Kingstown St. Vincent
Botanical Gardens St. Vincent
Botanical Gardens St. Vincent
Jamaica
Coconut Seller, Jamaica
Young Coconut
Jamaican Goat
Trelawny Parish Church Jamaica
Cuba
A local band in Santiago de Cuba has a new maracas player
Fidelidad al Son live at Casa de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba.
Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba
Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba
View from Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda
View from Rooftop Bar in Hotel Casa Granda
Havana is full of Classic America Cars
Classic America Cars
Classic America Cars
Our 1953 Cadillac
Inside a 1953 Cadillac
Original straight 6 engine, 1953 Cadillac
Castillo del Morro Cuba
Castillo del Morro Cuba
Castillo del Morro Cuba
Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana.
Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana.
Cafe Del Angel, Havana.
Cafe Del Angel, Havana.
El Cobre Basilica
El Cobre Basilica
Castro's Tomb, Santiago de Cuba.
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Havana
Dancer at Club Tropicana, Havana.
Most of Cuba is poor and very rural.
Cayman Islands
Beach Bar, Cayman Islands
 
A place called Hell, Cayman Islands
Hell, Cayman Islands.
British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands February 2023
British Virgin Islands February 2023
British Virgin Islands February 2023
British Virgin Islands February 2023
Callwood Rum Distillery, British Virgin Islands
Antigua
Antigua February 2023
Antigua February 2023
Antigua February 2023
Eric Clapton's House, Antigua February 2023
Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Nelson's Dockyard Antigua February 2023
Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Ponta Delagada, Azores
Plymouth, March 2023
The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
The Barbican Plymouth March 2023
Plymouth Gin Distillery
Plymouth Gin Distillery
Plymouth, March 2023
Ocean View at The Dome, Plymouth.
Plymouth Hoe
Trerice Elizabethan Manor House
Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement
Porthgwarra Cove
Porthgwarra Cove
Porthgwarra Cove
Mid 15th Century Wall Painings, St Breaca Church, Breage
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 the Warning to the Sabbath-Breakers, intended to discourage sabbath breaking and blasphemy.
 St Nonna Church, Altarnun
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.
Bench End carved by Robart Daye between 1510 - 1530, St Nonna Church, Altarnun
St Nonna Church, Altarnun
Boscastle
Bermuda, May / June 2023 - Verity's Wedding
Bermuda, May 2023
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.
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.
Cigar smoking outside our Bermuda air b'n'b
Summer 2023 - Cornwall
Cornish hedgerows bathed in summer sun.
Antony House, Torpoint
Broomhill Tearoom, Antony Woodland Garden
We returned from Bermuda to find the fine summer weather had remained in Cornwall
Tall Ships, Falmouth August 2023
Autumn 2023
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.
38 Years since we met. Afternoon tea at Carbis Bay.
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.
 
 
The basement at my London club has had some refurbishment.
The Nutcracker Dec 2023
 Fal Estuary Walk Christmas 2023
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.
Dubai Creek January 2024
View from our 30th Floor balcony - February 2024
Sheikh Zayed Road from the 43rd floor rooftop of our building.
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