
Elfstedentocht, 1985
This is a 200 K race held on natural ice across the Netherlands. Because of climate change, the race has been held only three times in the past 50 years.


Visual Entertainment from Near and Far

Elfstedentocht, 1985
This is a 200 K race held on natural ice across the Netherlands. Because of climate change, the race has been held only three times in the past 50 years.


Pakhuizen, Amsterdam
Aart Kline, 1958

Fortress Furingen, Museum zur Wehrgeschichte
The fortress was built into a mountain in 1941 (WWII). Built for defense and survival of Switzerland. Later it was used as a defense against Russia during the Cold War. It was decommissioned in the 1987.


More photos from when we visited:











On the road to Fira
Santorini
I rode up that road on a donkey way back in the 1970’s. It was not my finest hour.

Sunset at Phaliron

Puffins
One of the Auk Family
Summer Visitors/Nests in burrows/Food – Small Fish
Photographer – John Sowrey


Marc Chagall Window, Zurich, Switzerland




View out to Sheep Rock
Fair Isle, Shetland

View of Red Square in winter
I don’t have any nice aerial shots like that but I did take a few in winter…




Czardas danseressen, 1907