2017 Galleries

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Index One January to June.	Index Two July to December.

Christmas Day Click on the picture to go to the gallery.		Down Street Station Click on the picture to go to the gallery.		Rhoscolyn Click on the picture to go to the gallery.
It was just the five of us at home for Christmas Day this year.		Adam, Andrew and I did another Hidden London tour, this time of Down Street station. The station closed in 1932 and has been disused ever since, except during World War II when it used as a top secret bunker HQ for the Railways Executive Committee, and also at times for Winston Churchill himself.		We went up to Anglesey for a few days over October half-term.

The USA Click on the picture to go to the gallery.

We started our trip with a couple of days in Washington DC, where we explored the multitude of landmarks scattered around the National Mall. We were staying close to the White House, which was a good base for visiting other sites in the capital. It was interesting to see a couple of the things we saw being reported on the TV news back at the hotel. Before we picked up the RV we had an afternoon and evening in Boise, the state capital of Idaho. The highlight was the impressive State Capitol, which was pretty much deserted due to the summer recess. Surprisingly, even though it is a working building, most of the areas inside are always left open for visitors to wander around freely. We spent our first three nights on the road at an RV park near Ketchum, which was a very handy base for exploring the Sawtooth Mountains. We stopped off at Craters of the Moon, a vast protected area of lava fields and other volcanic features, on our way to Ashton in Eastern Idaho. We stayed in Ashton for a couple of nights to watch the eclipse. This gallery also has a few photos from our drive towards Yellowstone afterwards. We were able to see the eclipse from our RV park, and with perfectly clear skies it didn't disappoint. After the eclipse we headed to Yellowstone for three nights. It was good to revisit a few places we had seen when we were there in 2005, but the national park is so huge that most of it was new. The geothermal features in Yellowstone never cease to impress. The Teton Mountains were the last major stop on our trip - we spent a couple of nights staying at Victor just across the state border in Idaho and the days in the national park in Wyoming. It was great having the RV. It was fun to drive, and meant not having to pack up each morning while being able to stop off for a cuppa wherever we were.

Dublin

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Teresita's 50th

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Rhoscolyn

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Euston

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Azerbaijan

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