Thread: Travel Clocks

Ah geez, now I want one of these ones too TeeJay!! I know, I know, go make your own Wendy

They are lovely TeeJay. Absolutely superb gifts!!!

Just remind the recipients to turn the clock upside to get it to keep the right time for them hehehehe

cheers
Wendy

I like your clocks. (Oh Victor you are a very unattractive man )

TJ, I want to give a one more greenie before you go. Nice work and I personally like the finish better. I hate glossy finish because it kills the wood and makes it look plastic.

Enjoy your holiday buddy.

Cheers

Err Teejay - Tassie's fallen off the map again

Good trip!

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Tassie's fallen off the map again

Nice to know someone from <st1:state><st1>Victoria</st1></st1:state> is think of us Tassies

Originally Posted by robbiewy

Nice to know someone from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:state><ST1>Victoria</ST1></st1:state> is think of us Tassies

Someone in Germany as well. I was going to say that...

As for TeeJay, nice clocks mate. Come from the heart and a lovely gift. Dunno about the weather east of here but it's friggen beautiful in the south of Munich. Just got back from a walk with the dogs and nothing but Bavarian blue skies all the way to the alps... Here's a pic to prove it. Hope the weather in the USSR's as nice!

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Damien

Great result in the end, should be well received

brilliant idea with the first clock, and the aussie clocks are awesome....great work....have a greenie

Well done Teejay. Using the piccies for the hours looks great.

TJ, hows Siberia mate? Give us a full report.

Why why why has this thread come back to the top I wonder .

Um a full report. Well without waffling too much - you don't ask for much.

Lets see we went to UK and spent 10 days there caught up with the relatives and did the london thing with Big Ben, London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, Sherlock Holmes house/museum.

Then we went to Belgium and stayed with SWMBO's brother for a week - Brugge is the tourist destination in Belgium - postcard below.

We then went onto Russia and stayed mainly in Moscow which are the next three pics - Church in the Kremlin, Basils Cathedral just outside the Kremlin in Red Square and a pic of their Metro train subway station - I have pictures of others equally impressive and the stations are 60m below ground built just after the war as dual purpose nuclear bomb shelters - pretty grand though.

Also whilst in Russia we went for a 4 day guided tour of StPetersburg and learnt a lot there about the Tzars and their wealth - wow here is a glimpse of some of their Summer palaces - yes there's quite a few there not one or two :eek: . No wonder the people overthrew the Tzars eventually.

Some Tzars like Peter the Great were wonderful for the country but in time they became pretty ordinary and people power wiped them out.

Great Idea with the inlay, will steal for some pommie inlaws

Rgds

Yes in the pictures everything shown gold in the Russian part is all real gold.

We had good weather for all but the last two weeks in Moscow when it turned cold and wet 16 deg wet and windy.

We had a wonderful holiday - the grandparents got to see their grandson for the first time and he is so much like his grandad. It was sad at the end parting them.

My darling SWMBO and her daughter had a great time seeing their family again - we did plenty of day trips to parks etc.

Mosco is an amazing place if you get to travel it - it is about 40km dia has 16 million people. Every weekend during summer about 5 million leave the city for their weekenders. The city accommodation is small apartments and their weekenders are like our average Australian house.

Sunrise in Summer was 4am sunset 11pm.

A moscovite would go to his weekender at 3pm Friday have a barbecue be drunk in the evening on vodka or beer and repeat this Saturday evening - Sunday would be a rest day and drive back to the city on 6 lane freeways with traffic jams kilometres long.

We enjoyed the trip but there is no place like home. We returned via Heathrow in London 3 days after the bombers were caught and that was an expeirience in itself. We queued for 7.5 hours to just change planes the queue was over 500metres long three people wide for most of it and that was the third queue. i won't waffle except to say I don't want to travel again for a while.

The plan is in a few years time to get SWMBO's folks here for a month or so to show them firsthand why we love it here.

In the time away we caught up with everyone we hoped too including some of SWMBO's friends from Siberia - I know I will never go there - everything gets flown in and if it can't it is taken there by icebreaker :eek: - two days a year one daylight one night summer is 5deg winter is -50deg.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Ashore

Great Idea with the inlay, will steal for some pommie inlaws

Rgds

If you are talking about the rom with the painted ceilings floor there are many rooms in the palaces that have very intricate inlay floors - I did photgraph some.

One part of one palace has a museum that has enough exhibitions that if you spend 1 minute infront of each display for 8 hours per day you will spend 15 years to see the whole place. They have the original Venus statue there, they have paintings by Leonardo de Vinci, Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrant etc and not just one or two I saw a over ten of each for three of these painters. These were purchased by the Tzars in the early 1700's as they were avid collectors.

The places are awesome - the wealth in them is difficult to describe but for example one room had 12 pillars 10m high and they were about 500mm diametre. The pillars looked like green shiny marble but they were made from stone such as granite then rendered with over 4 tonnes of crushed precious stones such as emerald to give them the effect - many many more examples were given of the things there. One wall moziac is made of precious stones so fine you would swear it was a spray painted mural of incredible detail. The mosiac is 3m high and over 6m long and it took over one year for one person to do one square metre of the mosiac. Many vibrant colours all from precious stones.

Russia is a goldmine of heritage, natural wealth and poverty.

They say there that there is Moscow and there is Russia. Moscow has a lot of wealthy people (it is the most expensive place in the wold to live) and the country has very hard times of poverty and misery.

The average life for a Russian is 57 years - about 90% of the population smoke and many are drunks - you can drink in public and they do from morning till night.

Russia has (in my opinion) a wealth of beautiful ladies - an average guy with is act together there will be popular and sought by girls as there are plenty more girls than guys. A good looking guy is very difficult for a girl and when caught he is more likely to be unfaithful or looking for a younger girl in years to come because he is hunted too by many single attractive women. Summer in a place where girls are openly and actively liberal in their pursuit of guys is an interesting place to be - wow.

So many impressions of the trip - but happy to be home.

As soon as I got home I went bush and retrieved the remainder of my redgum burl - it is happily at home now awaiting inspiration.

Cheers