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2024 stormy seas....heading home

This post is interspersed with pictures of the giant christmas deccies the crew had made entirely from recycled materials. Its been a pleasant but fairly un eventful cruise... We were allocated an okay cabin down in the bowels of the ship... in the wild weather that finally caught up with us on the way home - the waves hit the port hole windows with quite some force. The occaisional 'wave' hitting the bow of the boat resonated down the side of the boat - quite noisy and a tad alarming.... but quite exciting! Mostly though there was little drama and our quarters were quiet and undisturbed. We were, however, for a large part of the day 'unwell' ... not exactly sick but definetely feeling less comfortable with the considerable motion of the boat - we just slept most of the time... probably not a bad thing after the 4 days of manic sightseeing and sampling spanish culture. Dr Freds lectures went down well... his private lunches were in d...

Revisiting the Guggenheim

Guggenheim in Bilbao photo dump.  We had a great day traveling from  Getxo to Bilbao on the Metro and visiting the Guggenheim (not for the first time) where I once again we were just blown away by the building.   it's definitely about the whole spaxe... inside and out... some of the art left us feeling quite underwhelmed - the bits we liked were pieces  we'd seen before.  The Louise Bourgeois spider and Richard Serra's beautiful rust iron snake sheets... but of course it's all very subjective and maybe we are just philistines🤣🤣  I'm just going to put a load of photos here I can credit them if they're not credited just send me a private message if you're interested Richaed Serra Louise Bourgeois This is huge tapestry made from bottle lids sewn together with copper wire Hilma af Klint Pop art... looking great Jeff Koons puppy is over 30yrs old and still growing strong Mirror room G...