Another Portchester castle photo, as it's a fascinating building: Roman walls enclosing a site that includes an early medieval chuch (still in use), a later medieval castle (used as a Napoleonic war prison)

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We carried on with the Henry VIII theme on Tuesday, visiting his castles at Portland

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Back in the first week of July ridley_walker and I went down to Swanage for the week, so here are the very belated photos, starting with Portchester castle

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Having had an interesting day wandering round the less-known bits of London, ridley_walker and I thought we'd do it again; mostly to see a museum which hadn't been open when we went the first time.
( More obscure bits of London )

Monday ridley_walker and I spent the day in London visiting the interesting bits that most people don't.
( Hidden London )

This'll be the last entry for Austria, but it's actually the place we saw the most: the Kitzsteinhorn glacier

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I guess my rapier + laptop icon is as about as appropriate as anything for Graz because it's a city where the interesting bits vary from Baroque to modernist, with all points in-between.
( Graz highlights )

I've been to Venice several times, but there are always more things you've not seen, on this occasion wanting to go via a rail route through Austria that's famously scenic

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The first Monday we were in Austria, the guest house staff were saying, 'Don't ski today, it's going to be more sleet than snow and conditions will be horrible.' So we went to Linz
( Linz, home of Kepler )

Just some photos taken on various days on the Schmittenhöhe when skiing . .

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