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  • Holy Spirit Volunteer Meal Relva Azores

    I was kindly invited by Carlos Lousada to go to the volunteers meal at Relva and yet again, I was amazed at what can happen in a small community of 3000 people when it comes to helping each other.

  • Cult of the Empire of the Holy Spirit

    I had the pleasure to be at one of the festivals on Sao Miguel, Culto do Divino Espírito Santo, or Cult of the Empire of the Holy Spirit, that was in a small town called Relva which is just to the West of the airport.

  • Mobile Boutique Hotel

    Richard Oetker, an eccentric corporate executive who tried to compensate for his traumatising experience of being kidnapped for ransom with this hotel on wheels. With this unique mobile accommodation, business partners were initially driven to selected locations, housed and fed. He made sure that all feasible wishes of his guests could be realised. He created…

  • Thailand 1997-1999

    After a brief stay in Thailand in 1996 we went to Hong Kong for a year, where I worked on, what was then, the largest building site in the world. I welded for a year which earned us the cash for me to become a dive instructor. I also bought the equipment to make underwater…

  • Back to Yorkshire

    I have done work in the past few years for the NHS, who offer their staff a day out in Todmorden to ease their stress and, at the same time, guide them in a few areas to do with work. At the same time, they get to eat nice Thai food, plus hang out in…

  • Remote Working 2023

    When I heard of the whole location independent, remote working trend back at the end of the last Millennia I was drawn to it like a bee to a honeypot. I had already found work whilst abroad, becoming a scuba diving instructor, making underwater video, welding in Hong Kong, but the dream was to be…

  • The Azores

    We made a home here almost a year ago now. We made a home here because it’s in the middle of The Atlantic, it has green fields like Yorkshire has green fields, yet it doesn’t get much colder than 14 degrees in the winter, it has gorgeous soil that can grow most things except pineapples,…

  • India 92 to 93

    India is more easily represented by images, or read about, because it does have rather amazing, colorful history. I have been there four times and they all blur into one eventually, other than some of the changes there such as how Goa changed so quickly, that even the locals forgot to change the languages on…

  • Almeida Coval

    I met a wonderful artist in Sintra called Almeida Coval, so I made a video showing his watercolor painting techniques. Jose then asked me to come back and make another video showing how he paints flowers, and rather surprisingly, another showing his martial art techniques.

  • Glasshouse Mountains

    When Captain Cook was sailing past Queensland on the 17th of May 1770, he noticed a number of mountains reminded him of the glass furnaces in Yorkshire where he came from, so he named them the glasshouse mountains.

  • Swimming in Sydney

    I woke up early this morning so that I could get out when the sun was rising, whilst the Rainbow Lorikeets are still asleep in the trees and before the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos wake to pirouette on telephone wires as if they have discovered them for the first time.

  • Sydney’s Ocean Pools from North Bondi to Coogee

    Wally Weekes Around the turn of the last century people built many seaside pools around Sydney, so I decided to visit a few and am now standing above the Wally Weekes pool which is at the north end of Bondi Beach.

  • Japan

    13 Oct – 19 Nov 2018, a wonderful trip around Japan including a three week Shinkansen ride with bento box lunches every day, a tea ceremony, snow monkeys, when I have a moment I’ll pick through and make a more sensible album, but for now it’s just a mess of pictures…..

  • Glide-Rite Air Suspension

    My air suspension is one of the best things on my wagon, it’s like driving cupped in a waterbed, makes cruising along a pleasure. I also have a posh airbed that pumps up in seconds using the 240 volts that fits snugly width ways into the van, so when I’m sleeping on an airbed with…

  • Lake District Week

    One of my favourite places in the lakes to swim is the small, stone, Birks Bridge  over the River Duddon in Dunnerdale.

  • The Glambulance

    It is a Mercedes 416 Sprinter with a 5 cylinder 2.7 litre turbo engine, I finished it to be a work, swim, sleep and travel vehicle so it has electricity, a lot of space, a very comfortable bed and speakers in the back for some good sounds.

  • The Dorchester

    There’s a little restaurant in the road opposite Streatham Hill railway Station that has been run by the same people for the last 40 years.

  • Wastwater YHA Birthday Weekend

    Many years ago I went up to Wastwater Youth Hostel with a friend of mine and fell in love with the place. It’s in a gorgeous valley that has Scafell Pike at one end, has the deepest lake in England on the doorstep and was built as someone’s fine country mansion, so I thought that…

  • Two Years of lido relaxation!

    Tis almost two years since my last post, so I took a look back over the years since I set-up Cyber Gypsy and had a few thoughts before heading back into the world of on-line personal biography writing. My original reason for starting this site off was partly because I didn’t really want to.  I…

  • Cornwall

    It hasn’t really felt like winter’s as I remember them, but then again I do remember some pretty grim winters. Miner’s strikes cutting power to damp cities, shoes that never seemed to dry out, England and I are in a better place now. The thing that has really exorcised the ghost of winters past for…

  • Snow!

    I missed the snowy antics at the lido last weekend and thought that it could have been the last chance this year. However as lady luck may have it not only did it start snowing again last night, but it was also Ian’s birthday hence the lido had a bit of the Sunday atmosphere about…

  • What Winter

    Whilst roasting in the Tooting Bec Lido sauna the other day someone referred to the current weather as a heat wave. The water, hovering at 5 degrees seems to some to be a balmy bath compared to what it could be at this time of year, so people wander about virtually naked but for a…

  • Cold Water

    Tooting Bec Lido is situated in a South London park. It’s huge, is almost two Olympic length pools end to end (100 yards long) and the width of a normal swimming pool. It’s also unheated. The fact that it’s unheated doesn’t deter the good people of London from taking a dip in winter, which is…

  • English Summer

    I can’t believe it was the 19th of May that I returned to Blighty, it seems like an age since then. I have done few of the things I had lined up for my return and many of the things I had not, for instance I have only been to one festival though I had…

  • Rolls Royce Qantas Engine Failure

    I have a friend who, when she gets on a plane, I have been known to get a phone call from the cabin. She checks out the safety features, the amount of engines (two can looks pretty thin for such a large plane),  she’s a nervous flier and as such keeps an eye on safety…

  • Patpong, Nana plaza, dentist chairs and The Atlanta Hotel!

    I’m on a stop-over in Thailand to get my teeth fixed and take a peek at Laos as I had never been there before. In Australia it was a hundred quid to simply get a filling, in Thailand you can buy a small village for the same cash so here I am typing this, teeth…

  • Nikon S8100

    I bought a Nikon S8100 recently to because I had my wonderful little Panasonic Lumix DZ10 stolen in Chile.

  • Australia

    I arrived in Australia and had a little shindig with friends I know in Sydney. The hospitality of the Krasnowskis knows no limits, so Jon, Rob, Sean and Dai all had a great evening out topped off by attempts to play coherent 12 string guitar in Jon’s back garden. I needed that and felt refreshed…

  • Santiago to New Zealand

    For a last wave at South America Valparaiso was a double edged sword, but certainly an interesting one.  I loved the place but should have tucked myself in bed safely after dark, but the alternative certainly leads to an interesting life.

  • Valparaiso

    Valparaiso is one of those places that defines a country. It is a loud mouth of a city, colourful, unapologetic, it has trade and a good climate that puts Santiago to shame,