Dick Morris's Travels

Sunday, 22 February 2015

SEARCH FEATURE

I've just noticed that the "search" feature on this blog is not working. I have removed it until the problem has been solved. Will visitors who have used the search feature please look back through the blog if you did not find what you wanted? It may very well be in the blog after all!

Berlin 1999

Technical Museum

Berlin 1999

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Lunch at the Alice Springs Golf Club

Just outside Usk. Good food and a warm welcome.

Monday, 12 January 2015

Walking the Nile

I watched the latest episode of this programme on UK's Channel 4 last night, and found it totally engrossing. We saw explorer Levison Wood walk nonchalantly through war zones, be accosted by various unstable-looking characters, many of them armed, and pass through some amazing scenery. We also saw a tribe that lives mainly off cow's milk, and whose main entertainment is wrestling. It made me thankful that I live in a generally civilised country, with a little variety in my life.

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Live music performance at Cardiff Central Library

These take place every Saturday (generally) at 1.00pm. Classical this time, but music varies. Or book your own ensemble. (The audience is out of sight behind the bookshelves.)

Monday, 15 December 2014

New Release

Shortly after Mike and Geraldine Baker take over a hotel in a remote and beautiful Welsh valley, a mysterious object lands nearby. Mike thinks it is a meteorite, but the thing has several unusual features. Later, Mike dreams that the object is an egg. But, as Geraldine immediately points out, when was the last time anybody saw a stone egg fall from the sky?

Gradually, however, it turns out that Mike is nearer the truth than anyone care imagine, and , for the few people living in the valley, and for the tourists visiting it, heaven turns slowly into hell...

About 23000 words.BUY