Not really. Of course I'm a motorcyclist. And I still have my bike, though I don't ride it these days. Of these two red ones in the foreground, mine is the one on the right with the blanked out Reg number. It's a Honda VFR800FiY from 2000. My buddy's VFR750 from 1995 is on the left. This is just gone 5am at Stonehenge on 21/06/2014. Everyone is a motorcyclist. They just don't know it.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ark-after-it-refuses-to-sell-greenland/21/08/ Trump cancels a visit to Denmark because they won't sell Greenland. Just as you thought he couldn't get any madder. He's a diplomatic nightmare. The problem for Denmark might be if the Greenlanders fancy being American.
Greenland's leader Kim Kielsen said, No thank you. Can't blame them. On the happiness scale, Denmark [Greenland] is at the top, and the USA is somewhere near the bottom. People would be crazy to want to change from being under Danish dependency to American.
I've said before that people are seriously going to have to change their environmental habits. We cannot read this stuff, agree with it in principle and then carry on as before: BBC News - Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49425402 Of course, the present government has bound itself to a relatively trivial thing called Brexit while we carry on poisoning ourselves. It's for you, the reader of this, to start changing. Don't wait until you're pushed.
Fawley power station chimney is coming down I'm told. Someone I'm working with said it was this week. Is that true?
No idea, the internet says the chimney isn't due to be demolished until 2021. Who knows how accurate that is.
Seems like the surrounding areas of Napoli are rocking in anticipation of Mrs No7 and mine upcoming trip next week. My cousin has just reported ground murmurs in her home town 50km away Still, at least I will be able to say I made the earth move at 50 years old to Mrs No7 next week if it happens a bit closer
There’s quite a bit of seismic activity down the east coast of Spain, and it’s not unusual for small tremors to occur near a property I have on the Costa Blanca. In fact one of the most recent was pretty much centred under the urbanisation the house is in. I believe that earthquake damage is included in house/building insurance as routine in this area. I have only witnessed one earthquake/terremoto, when living out there, and although just a small tremor the sound was quite loud and quite exciting.
I have this weird fascination with earthquakes, always wanted to experience one, but not the 'big one' lol. I feel the same about Volcanoes...Naples is a good place to go for me
Having an Indonesian wife volcanoes and earthquakes aren't unusual for us. The Mt Agung November 2017 eruptions cancelled our holiday flights, we went the following May/June, stayed on Jemeluk beach Amed area East Bali the bad boy is on the left 3000+ meters. Oh must recommend Blue Star Bungalows https://www.bluestar-bali.com/
I think what fascinates me about earthquakes and volcanoes is that it reminds me that we are just visitors to this living breathing planet.
I experienced a hefty earthquake in Mexico City (five point something). I was a long way up a tower block in a meeting in a conference room, on a chair with wheels, with my feet on the bottom of the chair rather than on the floor. Those details matter. Very suddenly, the room started moving around me while I stayed in one place as the chair and me weren't connected to the floor. I happened to be looking out of the window and could see I wasn't moving but the room was. Looking down I was rolling to and fro across the carpet but my inner ear told me I was stationary. It was all very otherworldly and I genuinely had no idea what was going on. Several of the people in the room dived for the floor under the tables around the outside of the room. Remember, at this point I'm stationary and the room's moving. I'm also heavily jet-lagged. In a situation where you have literally no idea what's happening (as it's so far out of any experience I'd ever had), people leaping under tables comes across as a bit odd. A few seconds later, the people re-emerged, some of them crying. Then they told me it was a big earthquake. Which I'd sort of not noticed. It has a very dreamlike quality in my memory becuase it doesn't fit properly. So I've lived through a pretty strong quake but not really experienced one. Vin
Mt Merapi erupted Oct 2010 we visited close by Borobudur in May 2011 it was still a disaster area bridges and infrastructure undergoing people getting on with their lives. What was/is needed was tourists to return, stay and spend locally not with international hotel and tour groups. Same goes for the more recent Lombok earthquakes and Mt Agung eruption. We have friends who's livelihoods were affected by sensational reporting, in particular, (surprise surprise) the express.