Friday 5th August 2011

On my way into work to start the night shift, I stopped off in Newbury to take the following photographs ....

Full spead ahead !!!

Feeding the swans and ducks on the canal.

Getting hooked just before sunset on the Kennet and Avon canal

Lovers in the park

Sunday 31st July 2011

Just to round off a disastrous weekend, I decided that instead of leaving my house in Germany at 5:30 am on Monday morning and trying to get to Calais past all the rush hour traffic in time for my return Euroshuttle train (which I had booked on-line earlier for 11:50 am), it would be better to drive back to England on Sunday evening.

My first stop was outside the office in Germany where I used to work, to get this shot of the company car that I had driven for the previous 4 years (and had hoped to borrow for the 10 weeks that I am working at the Head Office in England) alongside the car that I am now driving, only because the company wouldn't lend the car to me !!!

OK, so in my defence, I didn't know when I asked to borrow the Subaru that I would later buy the Jaguar !!!


I arrived at Calais at 00:15 am and tried to change my shuttle ticket for the next available train (at 01:47 am). Euroshittle refused to allow this, so I had to throw away my ticket for the 11:50 am train (which cost £ 51, and the train would probably have been fairly full) and buy a second ticket for an additional £ 51 (for the train that was almost empty).

Appalling customer service from the greedy money-grabbing Euroshittle !!!

Friday 29th July 2011

I drove (via the Euroshuttle train under the English Channel) back to check up on my house in Germany today. Very disappointing .... I had agreed to lower the rent from Euro 330 per month to only Euro 130, provided that the tenant (a 66 year old retired man) mowed the grass and maintained the garden regularly ....

.... but he is in a permanent alcoholic haze and has done nothing since I left in March, so I spent most of the weekend trying to cut back the grass, weeds and bushes in the jungle !!!

Friday 29th July 2011

Saturday 30th July 2011

Friday 29th July 2011

Saturday 30th July 2011

Friday 29th July 2011

Saturday 30th July 2011

I ran out of time before I got round to clearing the weeds off the terrace in front of the rented flat.

Is that such a good move ?? (in the pedestrian precint in Neuwied)