Berlin 2014 – 25 years later

25 years after our last trip to Berlin … and 41 years after my first, here we are in the Hauptstadt once again…

Holocaust memorial

Girls unimpressed with Pariser Platz

Just the monkey missing

Public bench/Banc public

Savignyplatz!

They shopped till they dropped

my shop!

Stasi interrogation

Embedded in Thomasiusstrasse

Friedrichstrasse looking east

Paris-Austerlitz at night

Paris-Orly

The Alex

Hackesches Markt mit Wolfgang and Serena

Two girls puzzle over Cy Twombly’s claim to fame

“Where is that little Red Book!”

Currywurst, Pommes und Kartoffelpuffer

Berlin-Wedding: destination for fashionistas

weekend in the country

Scenes from around Saluèges in the Tarn … taken by my daughter Isis who is developing an eye … (she’s 13). The poppy pic I took in the area around Limoux.

banc public

Bancs publics à Toulouse … to be continued

RED

Maison à Illier, en Ariège

Jardin japonaise à Toulouse

Spring came in late January to Toulouse’s Japanese Garden – cherry blossom, young people and a ‘Pullip show’.

Colza/rapeseed time

Before the 2011 spring drought in the Ariège: colza fields in full flower

lost

Lost in the London underground – somewhere in the tunnel under Exhibition Road, South Kensington

Body language

The quaker oat man is back

Simon Oliver’s ancestor, Adrian Scrope, was the 27th signatory of Charles I’s death warrant.

Simon Oliver’s mother is a Quaker.

Simon Oliver enjoys a bowl of Quaker oats from time to time.