Baboons! What a lovely trip to experience with your Mum. Thanks for sharing a little-known part of the world (to me anyway) - your photos are fabulous Ralf. And I had no idea there was a species of baboons native to KSA! Safe travels, Cheers, Ren :)
Follow that Road Inviting one to drive in. As you are not advocating other than vehicular travel in KSA, Ralf, this qualifies for TB's "Follow that Road" thread in the Photography Forum. Any excuse. Check 'em out!!!
Not sure... If they would like you to drive that particular road.
An own car is certainly easier here, but we are managing without one. And buses are a good way to meet people you wouldn't normally meet.
Thanks for commenting and reading, and promoting my pictures on various photography forums.
All the best from Madagascar Hello Ralf,
Good to hear you survived Corona and are traveling again.
It took me almost 3 years to get going again.
Now I am in Sambava in Madagascar, very nice beaches and really nice people.
Hope to meet you again while traveling.
Enjoy the time with your mother.
All the best
Jens (we met in the Andaman islands)
Good to hear you are on the road again too Madagascar is also high on my list of places I want to visit. Enjoy it! And thanks for reading and commenting
The Kingdom We enjoyed our trip to Saudi in February and as you were delighted to be able to travel to this land that we once thought could not happen. Saudi offered a few surprises and the people were very friendly. WE ate our weight in dates. Thanks for taking us along.
Yes I read your blogs... Sorry that I didn't comment on them. Was going to, but at the time there were many things going on in my life.
We are also eating our fill of dates! And enjoying the hospitality of the people here. It's certainly an interesting and beautiful country.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Glad to see you posting again I've been to most Middle East countries but never managed to get to KSA. Thanks for the tour as I'm not likely to be in that part of the world again.
family... Having lost my mum recently Dudeness, This warms my wanderlust soul. I hope you make some recordings of her voice and especially of you two laughing togther. I have 43 seconds of my mom's voice. That's all I got.
Travel Well, Fox (Matthew)-
Condolences I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's passing. Cherish her memory and remember, time is relative, 43 seconds might as well be a lifetimes worth.
She will be with you always, my dad is.
If this blog inspired your wanderlust, then I hope you will be on the road again soon.
The tiniest door I have had a lightbulb moment. I have posted this pic in our "Doors, doors & more doors' thread in the Photography Forum. Check 'em out.
Love the photos Ralf, there are some really beautiful ones of Gaanderen in winter that I hadn’t seen before & I have to say there are some beautiful areas in & around Hagen which was nice to see
Intermezzo XXI The music of life plays on for you Ralf...the joy of family and your relationship with Jenni...balancing the moves of locales, employment, health and how to get the swimming pool finished. Dramatic flourishes, festivities, just living...stumbling on little things in Dutchland, Germany and Ireland...and those that are bigger...expectations of crescendos and what is to come. May your intermezzo be the lead in to magnificent operas to come.
Three comments... I feel honoured! It's been quite a year, but I think that probably has been the case for quite a few people. On the whole I can't complain. And the swimming pool, in the end, was really a luxury problem.
Ring of Kerry "If one does not wander, one misses the joy of stumbling upon surprising little things" - Dancing Dave. Great pic Ralf, bringing back memories of serendipitous little things.
RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew
Baboons!
What a lovely trip to experience with your Mum. Thanks for sharing a little-known part of the world (to me anyway) - your photos are fabulous Ralf. And I had no idea there was a species of baboons native to KSA! Safe travels, Cheers, Ren :)