tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11741397744954280382024-03-21T15:16:34.464-07:00GShock-World-TravelsHi I have never done a blog before so this is my first time. The reason is to follow a G Shock digital watch as it makes its way around the world to members of Watchuseek. Its a great forum for people to share all types of watch info and other interests. The G Shock started its travels from Wine Country Temecula Ca. I will post info from the stops is makes on its journey through the USA, UK, Australia, Maylasia, Netherlands.Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-26731421756418989972009-08-13T00:47:00.000-07:002009-08-13T02:23:56.452-07:00G-Travels 6: Front Flipper does Zeeland<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>About a week ago the postman dropped a package at my house. In it: The Traveling G. Somehow this watch wanted to travel to me pretty much. David S., the previous stop of this watch, had two independent ways to choose the next stop and somehow both ways pointed to me. I took some time to travel around the island for photographs. Most are recent photo's. I needed a few to make the story complete.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_04.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_04.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>For the next stop I made it easy. I asked my son Bram to choose the next stop. The watch will continue it’s travel to Eire (Ireland).<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_38.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_38.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_05.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This watch must have landed in a strange home. Cats wearing watches, garden gnomes, wooden shoes?</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_37.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_37.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The traveling watch is a G-8000 that replaced the lost G-2210. This version is called Front Flipper in Germany. A pretty interesting model. I think a regular article will show up in the future on 50 Gs.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/walcheren_foto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/walcheren_foto.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I live in Middelburg and was born I Vlissingen (Flushing). Middelburg and Vlissingen are the main cities on the former island of Walcheren. Don’t think about big metropoles here when the word city falls.I served my military service in a "small village" on the Veluwe. I almost never heard of it before I was sent there. This small village had a population of only 40.000 people... Both Vlissingen and Middelburg now have a population of around 40000 people.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_59.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_59.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The boulevard of Flushing.</span></span><br /></div>Most people on Walcheren love the sea. The Flushing Boulevard is well known place to visit for a walk or ride, watching the Westerschelde and it's ships. The broad river mouth gives easy access to the North Sea. Boulvard is actually an old meshed-up “Zeeuws” (dialect of Zeeland) word, from around 14th century for the defensive fortified constructions called "Bolwerken". The word is taken over phonetically in French. Considering even now the letter "E" is here often pronounced as an "A" and the "W" pretty soft, it's not far from bollevark to boulevard. This makes the Flushing Boulevard the mother of all boulevards in the world.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_58.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_58.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>On the end of a dike at the beginning of the Boulevard there is a wind organ.</i><br /></span></div>Vlissingen and Middelburg are connected via a canal (Canal through Walcheren), but when Walcheren still was an island Middelburg could be reached by a river arm, called the Arne.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_07.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_07.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Riding along the canal or walking on the dike is a good way to escape of daily hectics. In the distance you can see the skyline of Middelburg.</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_09.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Although Middelburg was already founded in the 9th century, the abbey build in 1125 brought real progression to the island. In the Golden Age Middelburg was the second largest city of the 7 Nether Lands, due to the residence of the United East Indian Company.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_13.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This building was the residence of the V.O.C., the Dutch United East Indian Company. </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Spijkerbrug (nails bridge). </span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A modern steel bridge connects the new court of law with the quays. This bridge was build by a company in Middelburg that builds luxury skyscrapers.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_19.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This sunbathing woman can be found in the main shopping street of Middelburg. Probably everyone who has been here has sit besides here for a photo.</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_20.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Middelburg isn't an important harbour anymore for at least 2 centuries, but the quays and the restorated old parts of the city still breath the 16th and 17th century atmosphere. Unfortunately the characteristic town hall, the abbey and about 600 monumental houses were destroyed in the bombardment on May 17th, 1940 (my dad's 5th birthday).<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The old town hall. The architect was Rombout Keldermans II, from the famous architect family Keldermans. </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Above: one of the entrances to the abbey complex. Below: the Lange Jan (Tall John), the 90.5m church landmark of the abbey complex.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_17.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 585px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Already during World War they started rebuilding up the city. When visiting the city you would almost not notice you look at an 50 year old abbey or town hall. Even rebuilt streets look authentic and blend seamless with the still existing old buildings. Only a small tile on the house remembers it was "rebuild from the ashes".<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middwalk031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 204px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middwalk031.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >rebuild from the ashes tile.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_27.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A walk around the town makes you thirsty. Around the market there are a a lot of great terraces. This terrace had a beer I recently discovered. It is from the Moortgat brewery, the same brewery that brews Duvel. Meanwhile the sun sets and the full moon rises. </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_31.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_31.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_30.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_32.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >One of the many windmills on Walcheren. This one is the closest to my home. In Middelburg there are still at least 4 working windmills.<br /></span></div>Nowadays the historic town hall houses the Roosenveld Acedemy, the University of Middelburg. Since a few years a new town hall is used, located along the canal.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Stadskantoor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Stadskantoor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The new town hall.<br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middelburg038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middelburg038.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This villa was build outside the city. Nowadays it's located in a suburb. There is a beautiful park around it. In the 1970's and 1980's this was a small secondary school. It was my secondary school.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middelburg047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/Middelburg047.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This small castle was build just outside Middelburg. Originally it was a heap of buildings in the 14th century. The park around can be visited, the gardens around it are private domain. </span></span><br /><br /></div>Vlissingen is known for it's royal shipyard "De Schelde". A few decades ago this shipyard was the main employer for the people of Vlissingen. Now the shipyard builds navy ships and very luxurious yachts. About 10 kilometers East of Vlissingen is the industrial zone Vlissingen-Oost (Flushing-East). You'll find mostly chemical industry there.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_6623.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_6623.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Saint Jacobs church is an important landmark of Vlissingen (Flushing)</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_6649.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_6649.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Besides Middelburg and Vlissingen, there are more pittoresque places on the Island. Veere is one of those places. It was first the place where the ferry to Campen (drowned) and later to Kamperland on North Beveland departed. Therefore the original name of the city is Campvere (Ferry to Camp). After the dam was built to North Beveland, the ferry was not longer needed and also the harbour lost it's function. Nowadays it is an important recreational harbour. The pittoresque city centre, now housing many little shops, was once populated by a large Scottish community. The small city has only a small population. The harbor and the market are now full of small cosy shops. You can find pretty special things here. Souvenirs, clothing, old Dutch toys, kitchenware and candy. I often buy some very special chocolate there. Around the small city there are old fortified defensive constructions.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_54.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_54.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fortified defensive works of Veere.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_53.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_53.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_51.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_51.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Above the top and below the bottom of the town hall of Veere.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_64.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_64.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_52.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_52.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Campveerse Toren was the place where the ferry to Campen departed. </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_55.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_55.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_68.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_68.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Above: The Big Church of Veere. Below: kitchenware and toys in one of the curiosity shops of Veere. </span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_65.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_65.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_62.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_62.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_60.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_60.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You can spend a good time at one of the teracces in Veere. Not only tourists visit this small town, people of Walcheren like to visit this town too from time to time. As you can see, time flies when you have a good time.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_66.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_66.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Domburg, Oostkapelle and Zoutelande are also beautiful places to visit. German tourist often believe Domburg must be our capital city. The forest around the castle Westhove near Oostkapelle is a loved place to visit around the whole year. This castle was founded in the 13th century. It was property of the Abbey of Middelburg, the abbots used it as a summer residence .<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_57.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_57.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Westhove Castle.</span></span><br /></div>Probably the most attractive places on Walcheren, both for inhabitants and tourists, are the sand beaches. Starting in the south from the Flushing Boulevard it stretches all the way to Vrouwenpolder. The beach of Oostkapelle has been pronounced "the cleanest beach of the Netherlands in 2003.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_49.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_49.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A path over the dunes, the natural protection of Walcheren.</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_39.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_39.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_44.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_44.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_42.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_42.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_45.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_45.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_48.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_48.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_47.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_47.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_46.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_46.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Walcheren is one of the most sunniest parts of the Netherlands. The more to the west, the better the sun hours. No wonder in summer holidays and weekends an exodus happens from the inland to the coast. And since it's around 28 degrees today, I'm writing this from my beach chair. Time to close and walk to the beach pavilion and buy something to drink and an ice-cream.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_72.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_72.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Epilogue: It took me almost a week to get all photo's I wanted for this post. I hope you enjoyed the adventures of the traveling G-8000 Front Flipper.</span> A big thanks to Jerry who started this and Alan who donated this second G-Shock for this purpose.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_71.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp326/50-gs/Travel/trav_71.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-74668673575027217792009-07-26T20:39:00.000-07:002009-08-13T03:11:16.741-07:00G-Travels: Stop 5, Ashford Kent.Now for stop # 5 it has been to Ashford Kent in the UK, thanks to DavidS<br /><br />I have to say I am glad that this project is back on and have been able to see places I will not make it too and look forward to many more stops and great photos. Thanks to all that have been a part of this project. David is going to be sending this on to Sjors that has his own G Shock blog and mentioned to me that I should start a blog on the G traveling all over the world. Here is his address. http://50-gs.blogspot.com/ Great G Shock photos and info.<br /><br />Now for DavidS photos.<br /><br />I live in Ashford, Kent, in the UK. Ashford grew up around the railway; there were at one point three different companies running trains through the town, each with their own line, station, carriage works etc, and a lot of this land still remains unused.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3293.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />There are a lot of old railway buildings still standing, like these carriage works:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3339.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />When these works were built, the railway company also built a <i>model village</i> to accommodate their employees. This is a view across the village green at 'Newtown':<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3341.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The railway works are to be redeveloped, and a lot of the buildings have already been demolished (but would have been mainly engine sheds like the ones in the previous pictures). There are also a number of other ancillary buildings, like the clock tower at the main entrance to the works:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3340.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />In the town centre a lot of the older buildings remain:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3308.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3368.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Although there is the mix of different ages of building found in so many British towns, with the inevitable shops built in the 60's/70's/80's – when town planners seem to have allowed anything, no matter how ugly, to be thrown up.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The church in the distance in the last picture, St Marys, is right in the middle of the town, but very well hidden away-I'd lived here some time before I even knew it existed.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3310.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />One of the town's less salubrious drinking establishments:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3378.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />A 'man of Kent' comes from the part of Kent East of the River Medway, a 'Kentish Man' from the part to the West. <br /><br />Following the first World War, towns which had raised funds for the war effort were rewarded with a tank-Ashford's was driven into place in 1919 (but has since had it's engines and guns removed!), and for some years contained an electricity sub-station.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3304.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Another left-over from the war are these anti-tank defences, which would originally have been along the sides of roads or railway tracks. These ones, known as 'dragon's teeth' would have originally been alongside the railway line to Maidstone, and were removed when the Channel Tunnel Rail Link was built.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3291.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The River East Stour runs past the end of my road:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3408.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Further downstream the river merges with the Upper Great Stour to form the River Stour, which goes on through Canterbury and into the sea near Sandwich. Where the two rivers merge there is a mill:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3382.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />No longer a working mill, the building is now used as a nightclub. This isn't the only mill in the town; the Willesborough Windmill is less than a mile away. It is open to the public, and a small amount of flour is still produced.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3422.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Running through Ashford is a 'green corridor'. This is made up of green spaces and parks, protected by the council from development (no great loss to developers, as it is prone to flooding!). In the largest of the parks stands the Hubert Fountain, originally constructed for the Second Great International Exhibition in 1862, and moved to the town in 1912.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3394.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The town centre has undergone a certain amount of redevelopment in recent years; a new shopping centre has been built, an controversially, some of what was the ring-road has been changed into a 'shared space'. The idea is that all barriers between vehicles and pedestrians are removed, as are signs, markings etc., and as a result road users show more consideration for each other. It even made the national press when Jeremy Clarkson put in his (un-suprisingly critical) tuppence worth.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3359.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />As part of the town centre development, a number of pieces of installation art have been put in. My favourite of these is 'The Bolt', which serves as a mini-roundabout.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3358.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />On the outskirts of the town stand the Eastwell Towers, originally the gatehouse for Eastwell Place which was a Royal residence for some time. The house has long since been demolished, and a hotel now stands in it's place.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3356.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The nearest church to my house:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3432.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />This was built for the railwaymen; however, the pub directly across the road was finished a year earlier (the church is behind the trees in the background):<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3429.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The railway is still central to Ashford. The Eurostar stops here, and there are direct services to Lile, Brussels, Calais & Paris. The 15:07 from Paris, leaving for St Pancras:<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/DRS10_2007/G-Travels/DSCF3444.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />I decided to decide who to send the watch to next randomly, and threw a couple of die to decide. Then I realised that there were more people on the list than I'd thought, so I used a random number generator to pick. Amazingly both methods picked the same person! So tomorrow I'll be posting the watch to Sjors.Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-17884232131883689422009-07-26T20:33:00.001-07:002009-08-13T03:08:27.370-07:00G-Travels: Stop 4, Krakow PolandThe bad news is that the G was kept or lost by the next person on the list. Tribe decided to keep it going and donated his own G shock so it is now traveling again. Thanks Tribe. He took new photos to get this going again, starting in Krakow<br /><br />So this will be stop #4<br /><br />Here it is in my Kraków 'man-drawer' - repository of expired batteries, keys that don't fit anything and tiny screwdrivers.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/01Mandrawer.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Some views of Kraków. They're not all 'touristy' as I've probably snapped more than enough of those over the last thirteen years. However, I did find myself thinking 'better do a couple of the Market Square for the forum'...<br /><br />World recession hits candy-floss sales.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/02CandyFloss.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Where Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) went to university.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/03Copernicus.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Market Square. Girl on telephone.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/04Rynek2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Girls on bikes. There's always another one along in a minute.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/05GirlOnBike4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Quiet street.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/06Jagy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Kanonicza.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 544px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/07Kanonicza.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Tramlines, cobbles, girl checking phone.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/08Tramlines.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Bridge.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/10River.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />New Opera House. Girl on phone on balcony.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/11Operax.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Priority for trams.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/12Trams.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Three views of half of the Market Square (there's another half behind the central Cloth hall).<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/13Rynek3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/14Rynek4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/15Rynek5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Souvenirs in the Cloth Hall.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/16Souvenirs.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Cathedral on Wawel Hill.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/17Wawel.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Three pictures from Wawel (but none of the main attraction, I notice...).<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 600px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/18Wawel2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 533px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/19Wawel4a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 533px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/20Wawel5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />The cult of Clarkson reaches everywhere.<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/21Clarkson.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />In Europe. More places to phone!<br /><br /><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/K09/22InEurope2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />I didn't set out to take pictures of girls on the phone - it's just almost impossible to take a street scene without them...Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-44541213752822220042009-07-26T20:25:00.001-07:002009-08-13T03:09:52.766-07:00G-Travels: Stop 3, Tenterden KentI should have include a link to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Watch U Seek </span>in my first post. I have to thank Ernie the owner and the mods there that have helped with this project. This is a link to that site. http://forums.watchuseek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17<br /><br />Stop #3 Tribe has taken it to Tenterden Kent for some great photos. Thanks Tribe.<br />...........................................................................................................................................................<br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Owner/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-7.png" alt="" />I cheated. Well, not really - the watch arrived as I was heading off to my home-town for the weekend. Just as well really - it's a lot prettier than Watford...<br /><br />So here we are in Tenterden Kent. It's one broad street, basically, with lanes running off either side.<br /><br />From the doorstep -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div><br /><br />Looking back at the house. I was born behind one of the upper windows in this row. These are mid-nineteenth century, making them fairly modern for the High Street -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div><br /><br />Up the street -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/04.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div><br /><br />Typical Wealden houses from the 17th century. Oak frames hung with tiles. The left cottage appears to have a brick ground floor, but it doesn't. More of that later. My father, a carpenter and builder, did a lot of work on the right-hand cottage. They wanted him to put in a new straight door, but he refused. He wouldn't approve of them painting it either -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/05.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div><br /><br />Probably the oldest house in the street, from the 16th century -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />These are from the early 16th century. The neighbours favour different styles of gardening. I wonder who sweeps the communal path? I bet it's 'The Greens' -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/07.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />The width of the High Street is explained by it once having hosted livestock auctions. I can remember sheep being herded up the street for the May fair, but that belongs to the past now -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/09.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Down one of the lanes -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 600px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Cross the road to the church. The white building is the Town Hall -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />The Woolpack is a 15th century coaching inn. The name recalls the source of the town's early wealth - the sheep of Romney Marsh to the south -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />The church. 12th century in parts, but the tower is from the mid 15th century -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Lord Nelson's daughter is buried in one of these graves. She married the vicar -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />The tower is enormous considering the few hundred people who lived here when it was built. An ostentatious show of wealth, really -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 600px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Next to the church, my first school (from 5-7 years). I was never as close to the church again... <img src="http://www.watchuseek.com/site/images/icons/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="wink" class="inlineimg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />What I think of as 'The Eight Bells'. For 500 years it was a pub, and now it's a bloody Cafe Rouge. I spent many happy hours (or was it decades?) in there -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />We have a railway station. Well actually it was closed in the early 1960s, but the line was bought by steam train enthusiasts, and now runs to the rather picturesque <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-bodiamcastle" target="_blank"><span style="color:Blue;">Bodiam Castle</span></a> over the border in Sussex. After the line closed me and my friends found one of those hand-cranked trolleys, and went skimming across the countryside for several weeks - until we were apprehended closing some level-crossing gates -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/21-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Now that's what I call a good advert - tells you all you need to know without any fuss -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Carriages, but no locomotive today -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Now the town museum, this was the workshop where my father did his carpentry stuff -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Back down the other side of the street. Most of the houses are wooden-framed -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Even some that look like brick -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />On the corners you can see that they are tiles -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />The William Caxton. Caxton was the father of British printing and was said to be born in Tenterden. Just over the road are the broken remains of a once-splendid stone archway to one of the manor houses that fringe the town. It fell down in a gale. The millionaire rock-star owner of the estate (Kevin Godley of 10cc) said he couldn't afford to rebuild it...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />And now down the road to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;">Ellen Terry's</span></a> cottage. People of my father's generation remember as boys holding her horse for a penny when she came up into town. Dame Ellen Terry was the greatest Shakespearian actress of her day, and was in many ways the first British superstar. The house was the harbour-masters cottage in the 15th century. The sea is 20 miles away now, but before the silting of the marsh and the river, Tenterden was a port. Henry V's 1,000 ton warship 'Jesus' was built here.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Not much remains of the mighty river. Hey, someone left a watch here!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/31.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />I love the marsh. Big skies -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />A Kentish Oast-House. They were for drying hops. Most, like this one, have now been turned into houses. Our family went hop-picking, but it's all mechanised now -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/34.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Time to drive back to my usual home -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/35.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br />Where this is my more usual daily habitat -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Watfordpics/Kent/36.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div>Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-49390620178998666042009-03-03T19:49:00.000-08:002009-03-03T20:15:18.143-08:00Second stop David in South Carolina. Thanks David<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhstMOrguHRlL2ulPhtaoJ-b3_XA1_sHDsIRcGCtCe7oP7ipc3dtgnGTF83sQ-SPnNAoPesRH9-3xqwpz8D0XklmPSS1h8GrfTH6LzTUfWMqAqTndE18Sfrgi2MPQOf080J7XgOoKRLQ/s1600-h/whtshado+g+plumbing.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309176920251378498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhstMOrguHRlL2ulPhtaoJ-b3_XA1_sHDsIRcGCtCe7oP7ipc3dtgnGTF83sQ-SPnNAoPesRH9-3xqwpz8D0XklmPSS1h8GrfTH6LzTUfWMqAqTndE18Sfrgi2MPQOf080J7XgOoKRLQ/s320/whtshado+g+plumbing.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_rsK9IJSUrBhPWMMcXRObCwl60-58x1setRQlDmaFlUkIHAa4lx8rbBM9ACDNwmzdJvtxnxIV6V5Kz1JWorJQKcnRHezM-7VVRfsRruyQYge3p0RPuYJhnWt4yXSEUoowz9Wau-i1h8/s1600-h/whtshado+g+in+street.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309176917872744034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 232px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_rsK9IJSUrBhPWMMcXRObCwl60-58x1setRQlDmaFlUkIHAa4lx8rbBM9ACDNwmzdJvtxnxIV6V5Kz1JWorJQKcnRHezM-7VVRfsRruyQYge3p0RPuYJhnWt4yXSEUoowz9Wau-i1h8/s320/whtshado+g+in+street.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgK8z1qTPqhqAD-q01zpBd0AkG4SgDZbDOyPmlBIBGpLJZt46urX4JPRiDCScB7a7mKMkfVAi9ID1zSv8OglIWokMMWnGuoHox1giTaSdNxZL2zde3QLnBmyeT9pzHHXwXl5bLbtKQRI/s1600-h/whtshado+g+and+truck.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309176912253910178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 211px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgK8z1qTPqhqAD-q01zpBd0AkG4SgDZbDOyPmlBIBGpLJZt46urX4JPRiDCScB7a7mKMkfVAi9ID1zSv8OglIWokMMWnGuoHox1giTaSdNxZL2zde3QLnBmyeT9pzHHXwXl5bLbtKQRI/s320/whtshado+g+and+truck.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHgg1L4Jy99SHjsZGS7xUon6_yLUSBcB4MiKRMfbBDncv1BbJ_qwuXKORne4LuaCZLDrNYUKuzRevHFr4xfbsdXdem5ZcHH3s_CCcQe4XBw1repyehIeegY6evY-5Usw2YMe7piDLv10/s1600-h/whtshado+g+and+flag.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309176908984415042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHgg1L4Jy99SHjsZGS7xUon6_yLUSBcB4MiKRMfbBDncv1BbJ_qwuXKORne4LuaCZLDrNYUKuzRevHFr4xfbsdXdem5ZcHH3s_CCcQe4XBw1repyehIeegY6evY-5Usw2YMe7piDLv10/s320/whtshado+g+and+flag.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtv09v-5Hc78whKLk8ZXsCW3zzvGjrH4n1RvLy8fhVLea6VGIBqQSF4IPxnxLzNVMoe74U4UAhCnRuA8HVUsIqv-PzhRwrCPTYqfoYomYSD6W32r2OtP1Ev_mzPGo0wKSDsccGdN2hrQ/s1600-h/WHTSHADO++g+%26+plate.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309176877655071858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 232px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtv09v-5Hc78whKLk8ZXsCW3zzvGjrH4n1RvLy8fhVLea6VGIBqQSF4IPxnxLzNVMoe74U4UAhCnRuA8HVUsIqv-PzhRwrCPTYqfoYomYSD6W32r2OtP1Ev_mzPGo0wKSDsccGdN2hrQ/s320/WHTSHADO++g+%26+plate.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>So, the G left DougFNJ and made its way down to me. Unfortunately the job and the weather did not cooperate, so I was not able to make it to the coast. I did however have a little time, so could have a bit of fun.#1, Proof it did make it to me.#2, Boundary Avenue in Aiken, SC, a very beautiful, frequently photographed, stretch of street. More so later in the year.#3, The G is only rated to 200M so I hope it can handle this task.#4, #5, We know G's are tough, but can they handle being run over by a semi truck?#6, A well loved G, up close. With a problem?#1 - I know it says Washington, that is where I used to live. Now in South Carolina.</div></div></div></div></div>Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-65789519276400703042009-03-03T19:44:00.000-08:002009-03-03T19:48:03.289-08:00First stop Doug in New Jersey. Thanks Doug<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M6ft1wzYOaz3tkNkYaQHLSxEowcIqTAiSPU3xnzNmriFzrXfvNEd7p9HCQUxSZqNbEhe2ACCJEGABlxdxY8HKG-J9skK3jWmWLzrYonfKdUiFYNZLePIpepl5IyIEnPaBBaWvtVmW7k/s1600-h/Lady+Liberty+and+G.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309174018163954722" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M6ft1wzYOaz3tkNkYaQHLSxEowcIqTAiSPU3xnzNmriFzrXfvNEd7p9HCQUxSZqNbEhe2ACCJEGABlxdxY8HKG-J9skK3jWmWLzrYonfKdUiFYNZLePIpepl5IyIEnPaBBaWvtVmW7k/s320/Lady+Liberty+and+G.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Hello folks. Just a quick history. About a month ago Jersterca asked me what I thought about sending a watch around the world, I was completely on board with it and definitely think its a great idea. Apparently this idea had been tried a couple times with the watch not making it too far. We agreed that making a list of names and crossing those names out as it came to them may be the best way to get this watch REALLY going far, I am really looking forward to see where it goes. First trip on the mailing list was your's truly in Old Bridge, NJ, and I am honored Many people think of good ol NJ where I was born and raised as a running joke (I've of course contributed to many of them ) What exit are you from? New York's little red headed step child, NJ, The Garden State....sure, if your growing SMOKE STACKS We are famous for bringing the series The Sopranos, Friday the 13th original movie, Clerks, Mallrats, Beautiful Mind, the new movie The Wrestler, and many great films. We also brought up Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Bruce Willis, Danny Devito, the infamous Frank Sinatra, and of course, many more....New Jersey has also has great history. It's seen a lot of battles in the Revolutionary War as well as the Civil War. It's seen Inventor Thomas Edison, and the Industrial Revolution began in this state ending the Great Depression.I was off yesterday for Presidents day, so my girlfriend, her kids, and myself took a nice day trip with Jersterca's watch. We had alot of fun. What better way to start a watch that is beginning it's travels by going to the place that many saw as they entered America? First trip was to see the Statue of Liberty.....These photos were not easy as I had one closeup watch, one far off Statue, and a bad photographer Here's Lady Liberty behind the place my Great Grandparents entered this country....Ellis Island: Photo zoomed inAnd the watch WITH Lady Liberty while my lady held it up....Then we took a trip over to a location Washington used to be able to see 30 miles out for some strategic planning in the Revolutionary War..... Washington Rock. The Placque commemorating the location and it's significanceThe information sign explaining it's significance along with the view.They built a nice stone standing and walking structure back in 1912 so you could safely look out and enjoy the view....<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQXvsjEtFW31a3YtLQMwxNKAsIwSNab_bCnED1v_fIK2WAm_XYnXfiWR3FFoqrTfznhx7pVREdFWuyBERnipnMu5CLKknFCAlty4qOc1dC1G7qaY1_pBcHKu1MMJ3eXH6D0lcDX7iOTI/s1600-h/Lady+liberty.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309174011622349314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQXvsjEtFW31a3YtLQMwxNKAsIwSNab_bCnED1v_fIK2WAm_XYnXfiWR3FFoqrTfznhx7pVREdFWuyBERnipnMu5CLKknFCAlty4qOc1dC1G7qaY1_pBcHKu1MMJ3eXH6D0lcDX7iOTI/s320/Lady+liberty.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBgRtTRVWWXaLNuPbmI8vy5IUCE78AMcHXjxRE0u2pAEbsMHI0By50hza1Bd61x8A_Fv0qpyg5LEAqNwUA1T4MzlB2NlmxIGiKXSJBBxsAyuR_8bi-Boo100eFnpuZ9THcsNwKPnlO7s/s1600-h/George+W.+Rock+sign.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309174006630284946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBgRtTRVWWXaLNuPbmI8vy5IUCE78AMcHXjxRE0u2pAEbsMHI0By50hza1Bd61x8A_Fv0qpyg5LEAqNwUA1T4MzlB2NlmxIGiKXSJBBxsAyuR_8bi-Boo100eFnpuZ9THcsNwKPnlO7s/s320/George+W.+Rock+sign.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtddpFlaRruSLn1yAxEYC4yPmH6U_duhxCeyQgy2JnjrVm3tLVLTbpXbZfiZz74ekYxOd3r7f5RwCBCuyZCprQE5o30A403VMsxU5E9dYN2U5nHBum_euD4l3eCtcANabBHcdqVtaT1Q/s1600-h/George+W.+Rock+1912.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309173997318072706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtddpFlaRruSLn1yAxEYC4yPmH6U_duhxCeyQgy2JnjrVm3tLVLTbpXbZfiZz74ekYxOd3r7f5RwCBCuyZCprQE5o30A403VMsxU5E9dYN2U5nHBum_euD4l3eCtcANabBHcdqVtaT1Q/s320/George+W.+Rock+1912.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKGg7Zsc1yXl_xIqOcD6fYQaZ1vOFNFbEuCA9A0vM4jwyJWXJ3UqsSTW6zdwTU3qfp2kAMTDCG2GqCLAQZ-kIlpdmOQfKClCimqqm7fLI3BG8MPzlxmAhyphenhyphen7YQfBRWGNdxPnFwBUog0Do/s1600-h/George+W.+placque.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309173995271483298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKGg7Zsc1yXl_xIqOcD6fYQaZ1vOFNFbEuCA9A0vM4jwyJWXJ3UqsSTW6zdwTU3qfp2kAMTDCG2GqCLAQZ-kIlpdmOQfKClCimqqm7fLI3BG8MPzlxmAhyphenhyphen7YQfBRWGNdxPnFwBUog0Do/s320/George+W.+placque.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174139774495428038.post-28519781938957498512009-03-03T19:05:00.000-08:002009-03-03T19:17:26.808-08:00G Shock starts it travel in Temecula Wine Country<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyE6DhxwkPYm_BF4I0lHojANZO3JnewfLQ7Plzt7wQtSQQcfnVDxPLqCCRtAo0pKjMyL257yZlLxbyWQ4E2U1nFry3RmfXgamiv-NQ3f01NPF_MjJGvO8ZqDu9AbGqcfe02O6e42ANFAw/s1600-h/G+in+front+of+grape+vines.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309166225463496210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyE6DhxwkPYm_BF4I0lHojANZO3JnewfLQ7Plzt7wQtSQQcfnVDxPLqCCRtAo0pKjMyL257yZlLxbyWQ4E2U1nFry3RmfXgamiv-NQ3f01NPF_MjJGvO8ZqDu9AbGqcfe02O6e42ANFAw/s320/G+in+front+of+grape+vines.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSSm8h4vp2mFD_i5jhFwkCxt2Vkj8KdDZ9xDMZ6ePW_PbjPrajpLqH80Aw5-xTOIUobu7-vd8V-8c_p5CC2J0RG9sCdqAC5TNbGQ4YgHEpkciSl9wwz0a4btVJtn3yAnWU8j6ROpOwGE/s1600-h/G+in+front+of+Mt+Palomar+sign.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309166219499851186" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSSm8h4vp2mFD_i5jhFwkCxt2Vkj8KdDZ9xDMZ6ePW_PbjPrajpLqH80Aw5-xTOIUobu7-vd8V-8c_p5CC2J0RG9sCdqAC5TNbGQ4YgHEpkciSl9wwz0a4btVJtn3yAnWU8j6ROpOwGE/s320/G+in+front+of+Mt+Palomar+sign.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOp_HG7hqpRp97WyGgrWdwXZ1FfZMq1Wv7bIq7W7N8yYNNnfr4WvooK1j952lSp3hz_mEawAiG3rN0Cob4cHm41AVK691vARHXKrr75B_ZvLs-_CpFPG20v8TF9vnQ-AFuv-TtA9uR24/s1600-h/Flag+and+grape+vines.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309166215912478562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOp_HG7hqpRp97WyGgrWdwXZ1FfZMq1Wv7bIq7W7N8yYNNnfr4WvooK1j952lSp3hz_mEawAiG3rN0Cob4cHm41AVK691vARHXKrr75B_ZvLs-_CpFPG20v8TF9vnQ-AFuv-TtA9uR24/s320/Flag+and+grape+vines.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2RbfWXjq64FNJqUAoxXthSbuDuGj_CUaYNHj6r7szLIWfKg2nJxQueeQa0cR51xVxcLg1eoLLgyasyLK6-uhX4MXAEFqBjMw7gXAQ5muvJO4RXk3f5Brdw98v6kMMNKhd8w75ikV6Bo/s1600-h/Temecula+Wine+Co+sign.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309166206604305666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2RbfWXjq64FNJqUAoxXthSbuDuGj_CUaYNHj6r7szLIWfKg2nJxQueeQa0cR51xVxcLg1eoLLgyasyLK6-uhX4MXAEFqBjMw7gXAQ5muvJO4RXk3f5Brdw98v6kMMNKhd8w75ikV6Bo/s320/Temecula+Wine+Co+sign.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>I have seen people take photos of something in different places in the world, one was a company magazine that employees would take photos of it in different locations around the world and then the magazine would publish these photos. I thought it was cool seeing all the diffeent locations. Several months back someone on Watchuseek Gshock forum mentioned the same sort of thing. I waited to see it anything would come of it but it never happend. I had an old G Shock and thought what the heck I would send a private message to a couple of member and see what they thought of mailing my G around the world for photos in places of interest. They responded back that it was a good idea and they were on board. I took it to some places in Temecula CA. they have several winneries close to me for a couple of photos and then sent it to Doug in New Jersey.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div>Jerstercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890219749743406121noreply@blogger.com0