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neonbubble, 6 days ago to Cruise

Splitting time today between the long task of processing photos from our recent #cruise and the long task of swapping out the Jetpack tiled gallery in heavy use on my site, and this photo is from the former long task.

This is the Powerscourt Estate in #Ireland and the #mountain peak in the distance is Great Sugar Loaf.

#LandscapePhotography #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #GreatSugarLoaf #Wicklow #PowerscourtEstate #Trees

neonbubble, 8 days ago to Cruise

Forgot to upload any phone photo from our #cruise on the day we were anchored near South Queensferry, #Scotland. We ditched our original plan to head to Edinburgh with the masses and instead booked a local boat trip out under the three bridges (Forth Road and Rail, and Queensferry Crossing) and then to Inchcolm Island where we explored the 13th century abbey and engaged in a battle of wills with the population of angry gulls around.

#Travel #Inchcolm #Photography #TravelPhotography #Medieval

neonbubble, 11 days ago to Travel

We're in Le Havre today, resting our feet in a craft ale bar (surprise!) after walking around for several hours with no firm plans. We've seen some very nice sights and great architecture but none nicer than the Église Saint-Joseph designed by the mentor of Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret. It is absolutely incredible and really difficult to describe, sorry.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Architecture #Church #LeHavre #France #Brutalism #Brutalist #Cruise

neonbubble, 11 days ago to random

Currently on a ship somewhere in the North Sea in the nightclub listening to what might possibly be some of the worst music our ears have been abused by. Flo-Rida and Soulja Boy were just the last two according to my phone. The only three people dancing are a white mum, dad, and daughter, all in similar t-shirts and him in khaki shorts - it's formal night, by the way - and the mother is trying to out-youth her daughter with her moves. It's both admirable and excruciating.

neonbubble, 14 days ago to Eurovision

They held a #Eurovision trivia competition before the show and we've only gone and won it through some spectacular guesswork and low attendance because Americans who cruise really don't get this event. One bottle of ship champagne is ours. Ship. With a P.

#cruise #Travel #champagne #ESC2024

neonbubble, 17 days ago to glasgow

Just got off the Falkirk Wheel and it's a great experience on an incredible bit of engineering. We were taken up, piloted along the aqueduct, turned around, and came back the same way. Smooth ride, barely even notice you're being lifted or lowered.

Heading back towards #Greenock through #Glasgow and we've got a sea day tomorrow before we reach the Shetlands.

#FalkirkWheel #Scotland #Falkirk #Canal #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #Engineering

neonbubble, 29 days ago to photography

Some pill-shaped windows set in a building on an industrial estate in the north of Portsmouth for #FensterFreitag this week.

#WindowFriday #Photography #Architecture #Portsmouth

neonbubble, 1 month ago to random

Bloke in this morning meeting is introducing his 3-day-old daughter to the living hell that is Microsoft Teams.

neonbubble, 1 month ago to tv

An increasing number of adverts on TV finish with the warning "Keep away from children" and we almost always reply "We always do" whenever we hear it.

#TV #KeepAwayFromChildren

neonbubble, 1 month ago to Travel

We know a load of people who produce travel blogs and vlogs, and a lot get invited to hotels or ships or functions on occasion on PR freebies. A nice day out for the bloggers, and cheap marketing for the companies (if of questionable benefit).

But holy hell, the content they produce is garbage, and all similar to one another. English grammar assaults, spelling atrocities, and copy that feels like it's churned out by an illiterate machine. The genuine feel: nowhere.

#Travel

neonbubble, 1 month ago to photography

For #FensterFreitag here's a café in Chichester that was very close to where I used to work and which proved to be a great spot to sometimes just fire off a shot from the hip as I walked past, grabbing a scene from both inside and reflected outside.

#WindowFriday #Photography #StreetPhotography #Cafe #Window #Chichester #WestSussex

neonbubble, 1 month ago to movies

We've just watched Oppenheimer. Very good indeed. We suspected we'd like it.

But is it as good as Feeders, which we're following it up with? A 2.5 rating on IMDb implies "Maybe."

"Two friends on a road trip pass through a town where aliens are landing and feeding upon some of the civilians."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183072/

#Movies #BadMovies

neonbubble, 1 month ago to beer

To tide us over between the brewery earlier and the pub to come we've dipped our hands into the fridge to select something from the craft ales Mystery Box we recently bought. It was a Wheat Beer and, seriously, who likes this stuff? Wheat beer is revolting. It's the Chardonnay of the wine world. It's the Campari of whatever world it is that Campari lives in. Its only purpose appears to be to make other drinks seem nicer.

@beersofmastodon

#Beer #Ale #WeissBier #WheatBeer #WhiteBeer

neonbubble, 1 month ago to movies

An hour left in this @CultureDesk #CornettoTrilogy poll:

https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/112242703075674647

I'm surprised by the current result with respect to The World's End. It's got a fantastic soundtrack and the idea of a pub crawl reliving an earlier era resonates well with me. It would be my second choice behind Hot Fuzz that I actually voted for.

Also: 1% have voted "Dislike all of them." Who are these monsters?

#EdgarWright #Movies

neonbubble, 1 month ago to photography

Another apartment block shot for #FensterFreitag because I like these sorts of photos where there are little details of everyday life everywhere. This was taken in Southsea, the southern part of our home city of Portsmouth back in 2014 on a warm, bright, May day.

#Photography #UrbanPhotography #WindowFriday #Windows #ApartmentBlock #Portsmouth #Southsea

neonbubble, 1 month ago to random

Morning meeting and a couple of people sitting too close to each other in the same building keep forgetting to mute after talking. Less an echo of a voice, more a weird kind of auto-tune-style harmony. And very, very annoying.

neonbubble, 1 month ago to photography

Random photo from the archive. A pseudo-HDR stacked image from inside the Eastney Beam Engine House here in Portsmouth. This Victorian engineering marvel was constructed in the late 1800s to help deal with sewage drainage issues on the low-lying land of Portsea Island, on which Portsmouth is located. This museum is open the last Sunday of most months.

#Photography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Victorian #Engineering #Eastney #Portsmouth #Museum

neonbubble, 1 month ago to random

Said it last week, but I bloody loved Whale, thanks to MTV and shows like 120 Minutes and Beavis & Butthead showing it. #TOTP

neonbubble, 1 month ago to random

Treated myself to a new pair of slippers today.

Treating Mastodon to all the best status updates right now.

neonbubble, 2 months ago to photography

From Rotterdam for #FensterFreitag this week.

I enjoyed the sail along the Nieuwe Maas in daylight a few weeks ago as it gave me another chance to admire the eclectic architecture of Rotterdam and the surrounding cities, and to snap some of those dolls house-like shots filled with details to enjoy and stories to concoct. So many people stopped to watch our ship glide past their houses or workplaces.

#WindowFriday #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #Rotterdam #Netherlands

neonbubble, 2 months ago to music

The #ThursdayFiveList theme this week is #TheHatedHit for popular tracks you hate.

1. The Killers - Mr Brightside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE

2. Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6Q

3. DNCE - Cake By The Ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74

4. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0

5. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhFnTjia_I

Yes, several of those are walk-on music choices for #Darts players. Must be something in the tungsten.

#Music

neonbubble, 2 months ago to music

The #TuneTuesday theme is #IBoughtItFirst this week.

I can't honestly remember the first single or album I bought but this has to be in the reckoning. Operatic punk probably explains the eclectic taste in music I've grown up with ever since.

Toyah - Thunder In The Mountains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPj_iWln0s

#Music #Toyah #ThunderInTheMountains #1980s #80s

neonbubble, 2 months ago to mst3k

Reposted from https://trekkies.social/@bluebeetle/112033677974682530 with #AltText

#TheCrow #MST3K

neonbubble, 2 months ago to random

I'm not saying that the United Kingdom has the best TV in the world, but there's a decent chunk of the population right now watching people making toilets. Just so you know.

#PotteryThrowdown

neonbubble, 2 months ago to architecture

I don't often share posts from my own site but this might be of interest to anyone who likes #architecture or #design or who might be visiting #Rotterdam at some point. Photos and a little of the design elements and history of the Dutch Functionalist building Huis Sonneveld from our visit there a couple of years ago.

https://www.neonbubble.com/travel/inside-huis-sonneveld-rotterdam/

We're going back to Rotterdam this weekend and don't have a plan of what to see yet, but I'm sure we'll find something.

#Travel #Photography #Netherlands