The Pictures tell it all - snow

Snowballs

The boys and Christine

Hi Fives in the cold

Looking down the street

The car outside our house - all covered in snow

Barbara getting snowed upon

Pouring down

Out the front of the house

In the backyard

Looking up at the hills a couple of days earlier

And now the boys inside the warm house

Brrrr

Tawa

Snow: First time in my life - snow in the Valley and Wellington. Also power cuts, Rotary cancelled etc.

Turkey

Christine with a map of the 14 day tour we did. We of course arrived 3 days
early and stayed on another day.

A couple of pictures of the fabulous Pamukkale Trevertine Terraces. The springs cause the terraces to form and you can only imagine how our Pink & White Terraces must have looked.
From a distance you would have sworn it was a snowfield.

Look at the effect of the marvelous sunshine.

The Gypsy wedding we 'attended".

Ankara, capital of Turkey and the Ataturk memorial.

The plastic covers we had to put on so our shoes didn't touch the floor at the mosque.
What difference it made is beyond me.

A Gypsy camp in the middle of Turkey.

A small town street in Turkey.

An example of the many ruins we saw.

Ballooning in Cappadocia.

All below are from Istanbul.

A slightly crowded street - probably off from Taksim Square.

A view of the Mosque looking over the Bosphorus.

On the Bosphorus these were restaurant boats. They cooked the meal on them and
you sat on the side of the wharf and ate.

In the underground railway.

One of the many tricks the sellers of the goats milk ice cream get up to.

Turkey - Anzac Cove

Above are the wonderful words of Ataturk in 1934. This is the English version - an exact copy stands alongside with the words in Turkish.

The statue of Ataturk.

On our first day of the tour we went to Anzac Cove.

Dubai

Some pictures of the stupendous architecture of Dubai as well as a shot of the wharf area.

Photos - (at last) Abu Dhabi and the Grand Mosque

Finally got around to getting some photos up.

At the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi you had to wear a 'uniform' if you were showing anything you shouldn't such as bare arms. So Christine had to get dressed. I was lucky as I was prepared plus men can show more.

Outside the Grand Mosque

More pictures of the Grand Mosque

This picture was not taken by us as we had to head back to Dubai on the bus so couldn't see it at night but it shows what a magnificent place it is.