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| Display name: | Brian I |
| Gender: | male |
| Location: | Lanzarote, Canary Islands Spain |
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| Date joined: | February 15th, 2007 |
| Last seen: | February 11th, 2012 |
| About me: | This is me  I hope this quote from William Shakespeare sums up how I live my life: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." All words picked out in bold blue are links that will take you to other websites if you click on them. Text like this has an explanation when you hover the mouse over it. Just about all the links lead to tourism websites for various parts of Britain and Spain, so they may interest some people. I was born in the north-east of England, where I lived until I moved with my family to the Bristol area, in the south-west, when I was 31. I lived and worked in that area until I retired, although my work took me to all parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Unfortunately my work only took me to Scotland once, but I had one working trip to Jersey, in the Channel Islands . My wife and I have lived on the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands , since 2000, although we are frequent visitors to the United Kingdom to visit our families and friends. The Canary Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of Africa, more or less level with central Florida. They are part of Spain and have a wonderful year-round climate. Click the pictures below to see the originals. My Avatar Picture. My avatar is a square that I cut from a pencil sketch of some hills close to where I live. The original sketch, which was drawn by my son, is of different proportions, so it isn't all in my avatar. Because of the small size of Answerbag avatars most people have no idea what it is, although I've been offered some quite bizarre suggestions about it.  I had a miniature version of this picture, another of my son's paintings, as my avatar for a very short while in my early days on Answerbag, unfortunately the windmill lost its sails in Tropical Storm Delta in November 2005- a most unusual event here.  Where I'm From. This is a replica of a World War II Spitfire, that is mounted in the centre of a roundabout on the outskirts of my home town. You can tell from the chevrons that this is a country where they drive on the left. Pity I couldn't take the picture later in the year, when the flower bed in the foreground would be more recognisable as the RAF roundel.  The same replica, but taken from the opposite side at sunset. It commemorates the RAF squadrons that were based there until the airfield closed down in 1958.  This is a photograph of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales - the home of Wallace and Gromit's favourite cheese, and one of my favourite places in the world. It is mid-way between my and my wife's home towns. She is from the north-west of England.  Looking across the Bristol Channel from North Somerset towards South Wales. The Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range in the world.  Where I live now   My home, taken from the garden.  We don't have a dining room inside the house, but fortunately the weather is normally warm enough to eat outside.  You can't live in Spain and not occasionally eat paella and tortilla, so here is a paella that I made - the finishing touches courtesy of my wife, she doesn't trust me with anything that needs artistic flair.  The view from the upstairs balcony in the earlier picture of my home, although I tilted the camera up a bit to exclude the roofs of a couple of neighbouring houses.  A zoom lens pointed more or less at the centre of the last picture to see some paragliders in action just as the sun was going down.  Looking down into a volcanic crater in the Timanfaya National Park, about ten miles from my home. None of the landscape visible here existed 300 years ago.  The Monumento Al Campesino is a memorial to the rural workers who had to learn an entirely different form of agriculture following the enormous 18th century volcanic eruptions.  The Monumento Al Campesino is a ten minute drive from my home.  A photograph of part of the wine producing district of La Geria.Each individual vine is planted in a depression with a semi-circular stone wall to protect the vines from the wind, so harvesting is very labour-intensive because machines can't be used.  In this photograph the larger plants are fig trees.  Carnival in Playa Blanca.  In this NASA satellite image Western Sahara and Morocco in the north-west of Africa are on the right and I live on the most northerly island. The clouds show the effect of the prevailing north-east trade winds.  This NASA satellite image shows what happens when the wind moves round to the east, picking up fine sand from the Sahara Desert and dumping it over thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. You can see that the dust storm is covering the southern Canary Islands, although Lanzarote, where I live, and Fuerteventura, just to its south, are still in clear air. This wind is the Calima and fortunately it only happens a couple of times a year. The day after this picture was in our local paper visibility was down to less than a hundred metres and loads of people were visiting their doctors with breathing problems. At the top of the picture you can see Spain, Portugal and the Strait of Gibralter, that separates Europe from Africa.  |
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