Camping in Mahia
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Can you open a portal for us? I don’t care which SF/F universe you take it from, as long as I can just step through to that beach 
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Beam me up, Scottie should do the work. Shame that the Entrerprise is nowhere near…
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I’ve been to the Hawke’s Bay area but don’t think we went onto the Mahia peninsula. Looks lovely.
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Mahisian sunset last night
And we’re back today. Napier in the distance and pohukutawa tree on the right side
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Was anyone painting it?
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Always
Or not because of advances in paint technology
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That cannot be. I live in Hastings and it is inland 
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Those clouds over the sea are amazing!
Whenever I see a beautiful sky, I think of the quote from E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View “…there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads.”
Anyway, here is the view of the sky from outside our house this morning and then an hour later when a whopping great fog rolled up…
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The fog is in the first pic… it was already on the way 
I like fog, everything goes so quiet and sometimesyou can forget the rest of humanity exists. I don’t mind people that much… but the noise we make.
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There’s a fog warning out here at the moment, so I’m hoping some of my colleagues that live in the countryside will get some good pictures 
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View of Gaislachkogl, Sölden, TIrol, Austria
The slopes are not as empty as this image may suggest. Yesterday was a sunny, albeit stormy Sunday (thanks Nadia) and a lot of slopes were closed so the rest was quite busy. Busier than I had expected. But apparently we’re not alone in thinking that skiing is better than not skiing.
Masks and helmets are a challenge though although my goggles don’t fog even when I wear the mask all the time—as opposed to only wearing it while standing in line at the ski-lift and while in the lift. Overall people are very disciplined about mask wearing and the skilift personnel quickly reminds anyone who isn’t wearing one.
Next three days it is supposed to snow a lot so probably no more blue skies until we leave. But just being in the mountains… I nearly cried when we arrived. I had no idea I missed the mountains as much as the sea.
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Somehow I can see the mask making sense. On my one and only skiing trip I had sore patchy lips towards the end of the week, and I was recommended by my instructor to ski with a made up mask and plenty of lip balm. I ended up buying a “bank robber” balaclava that my partner hated, and made disappear soon after we returned from the trip to the French Alps
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Relevant (in the brain of someone whose brain works like mine)
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Not far from home, the Rhine flows. One direction is this. The bridge is being renovated all the time because someone has been blocking building a second bridge somewhere further down to enable this one being torn down, it is the only connection between Baden Württemberg and Rhineland Palatinate for about half an hour in each direction unless you want to bet on that one ferry.
Turn around and you get to see Germany’s strategy for “clean” energy at work:
We’re actually heating our home with the warmth that’s left over from this coal plant. I didn’t realize this until sometime last year where that “Fernwärme” we’re using is coming from -.-
(somewhere between these two pictures there is actually a single wind mill)
In any case this is a very popular place to take your “Sunday Walk” and it was quite busy.
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