Esplanade bus stop, Kolkata, India
I fell i love with Kolkata, so much so we stayed 3 weeks. Often we simply got on a random bus or tram to crooze around the city
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Does one have to be logged in? (Doesn’t work for me atm)
I think you may need a google account, it’s free and I believe means setting up a Google email address, someone else may be able to clarify that point as I’ve had a Google account for 20+ years and can’t check.
India is a wonderful country with wonderful people, I’ve been there a number of times and would love to go back soon. I could flood the thread with photos….but won’t…
Just some shots of our local pier at Green Cove Springs, one of the most Northern natural “blue” springs in Florida ( if not the most Northern)
And also the seat of power of Clay County.
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Thanks! Will try that.
Never hesitate to post a picture from India 
We’ve also been several times and must have spend nearly 1,5 years over there.
Really need to go back now that our daughter is old enough…hopefully soon
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Thank you, Paul.
BTW I have a Google account, but no Google email address.
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Thanks for the “heads up” that’ll make it easier for anyone adding a location 
A holiday at Prince Charle’s (now King Charles III) place at Zalanpatak in Romania, 2015. He wasn’t there, I must add, but on the last day of our stay a lot of very burly, tough looking, men turned up and we later found out that Charles was due to stay for a few days the next week so we assume that these men where the security detail turning up to secure the area!
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I guessed that it was about Romania only from the photos, before reading your text. 
Hi Daniel, yes we love Romania, and have been there on a number of occasions (we even took a party of friends there to celebrate my wife’s 60th birthday) and will be looking to go back yet again now that the dreaded Covid is not such an issue!
I had flown off on business one Sunday afternoon wife was walking the dogs when who came riding out of the woods. The woods , Jackson’s Bank, belong to the Duchy of Lancaster , in other words Charles so I suppose he was allowed. Surprisingly no obvious heavies.
She blinked and off he went 
Rasca Monastery, Suceava, North East Romania (not too far from the Ukrainian border). We spent some time here on retreat - so very peaceful and relaxing. The Monks distilled a particularly potent Tuica (pronounced tweeka). Tuica is Romania’s national drink, it is a strong “brandy” made from fermented plums. Traditionally, people drink it before a meal as an aperitif. Before evening meals we were served several shots of tuica from a tea pot into teacups 
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Painted Monastry at Voronets. The Voroneț Monastery is a medieval monastery in the Romanian village of Voroneț, part of the town Gura Humorului. It is one of the famous painted monasteries from southern Bukovina, in Suceava County, North East Romania.
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what is shown in the second photo?
That’s a breakwater they built into the end of the pier, it’s quite a busy little port surprisingly enough.
A lot of tourists and a few commercial vessels as well.
The St.Johns river can get quite choppy and it helps a fair bit into harbour.
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Screw the monkeys. Do the gators eat kayakers?
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My brother-in-law did his internship in Jacksonville (then his residency at Jackson Memorial [Miami]) and then practiced in N. Miami Beach. When in Jacksonville, I saw something floating in the St. Johns. It looked like a body in the choppy waters. That’s what it turned out to be.
Miami was magical at night…tropical. Been to Florida a lot, family still there, but I made a career choice that took me elsewhere. My niece and nephew still practice there, and my sister taught and still lives there.
Sanibel-Captiva was different, but we loved going there for many years.
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Crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside. 
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