Last Day In Dundee

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Dawn

Sunrise

She will have to explain this character in a comment. She told me about him, but I’m sure I would mix it all up.

I spent a delightful last day in Dundee walking around with Shey and John. We visited St Paul’s Cathedral, a museum, and the V&A. Then I stayed in the V&A until it was time to catch the bus to Edinburgh.

St. Paul’s Cathedral

The musem had excellent history of Dundee and Scotland.

This is an old movie theater turned into a performing arts space. John said the Lone Ranger visited the theater when he was five.

Precarious tagging

The gull on the streetlight was eyeing the man’s food.

Then we walked around in the old graveyard. The oldest headstones are from the late 1700s.

A lot of the graves had fascinating stone engravings.

The V&A us a wonderful place to hang out.

The have great exhibits

I was sitting in front of a window that leans out over the water.

On my walk to the bus stop

Caught a bus to the airport in Edinburgh

Spitfire outside the Airport Hilton in Edinburgh

Sunset

Dusk

Canceled!

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Gigi asked if I was ever going home. There was an interesting question after I woke up to text messages that my flight to Frankfurt was canceled and had been rescheduled to fly out of Edinburgh to Zürich on Sunday and the fly from Zürich to Frankfurt on Monday morning. The problem with that schedule was I was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to the States on Monday morning, also. 

The reason the flight was canceled was due to a strike by the German airline workers on Friday. Which was planned to create major disruptions for people traveling back home from Easter break. To make a long story short, my flight back to the States has been moved forward a week so I could stick with the new flight schedule if I had to, because flights and hotels were filling up and prices were going up on whatever was left by the minute. After a lot of searching, I got a better scheduled flight back to Frankfurt on Saturday. 

Freyja will be happy to get another week of morning walks in.

John gave me a tour of the Verdant Works Museum, and gave me an excellent history of the jute milling industry that made Dundee a boom town in the 19th century. Visit the Verdant Works Museum website for the history of the rise and fall of jute milling in Dundee in the 19th and 20th centuries: https://www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/attraction/verdant-works/

Mostly women and children worked in the mills

Then we went up to the top of the Law, which gives people a 360 view of Dundee and the surrounding area below.

A little over a 180º view

Magpie at Law

The Discovery

Museum

The HMS Unicorn

Gray Heron trying to blend in

A Dundee Day

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Dawn

Stretching wing at dawn

Sunrise

Synchronized seagull sleeping

Great architecture

This high school is as old as it looks.

The post office building

Museum

Grave yard bunny

Where North Sea oil rigs are decommissioned

European Starling

Starling and the Gull

Squirrel on Shey’s back fence

House Sparrow

Dunnock

Ruddy Turnstone

Eurpean Herring Gull

Gray Herron

Sunset

Sounion

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Flowers on Easter morning

Meow Meow meowed at the door last night. I let him in, and he was wet from the rain. He stayed around for a while comforting me. Then when he was dry, he asked to go back outside.

Sad Day

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Sunrise

Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.

Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.

It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.

Dinner

View from the table

Local black cat

Long Legged Buzzard

Assissin Bug

Local frogs

We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.

Houses with a great view

Handicap access to the water

This sweet dog came out to greet us

Sunset to the east

Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.

Back From Belgium. Gone To The Dogs!

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It was raining in Geel this morning

You can’t have my cake or eat it either, Niki!

You can’t eat the Eurasian Magpie, either…

Or the Eurasian Collared-Dove…

Or the Eurasian Jackdaw..

Or the cute Common Chaffinch!

“What? Are you just going to let me starve?”

Herman took me to aother old church this morning.

There were several of these locked, grated grottoes around the outside of the church with lighted votive candles inside them.

A man driving a small utility truck filled with lighted votive candles in the back stopped and said hi to us and explained to Hermin in Flemish that his job was to keep the candles lit. He had done it for ten years and loved the job.

Nike was watching for us to return from his bed in the garage.

I got back in the late after noon, and returned the rental car. Then we went straight from Enterprise car rental to Trivia at the Irish Pub. There were a couple of Golden Retrievers that came to Trivia Night. The white one really like me, and I had to pet it most of the time. It would put it’s head in my lap when I stopped petting it.

Tristan snuck a picture of me petting the dog. We are not supposed to use phones while a trivia round is in play.