Photo Gallery: Other things we saw!
Nicky was interested in the patterns of the tiles. The Islamic ban on representative art was made up for by the marvellous patterns on walls...
Author: Peter Taylor
JPL Pasadena: the Huntington-Sheraton
The meeting took place at what was then the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. Opened in 1914 under the ownership of the railway tycoon...
Disneyland and Watts Towers
Before the Seasat-JASIN meeting, Nicky and I visited my friends in Claremont, just east of Pasadena. They took us to two very different “attractions” in...
Botanic Gardens
I think that photographs from the trip depict two Botanic Gardens. One is the collection of cacti at the Huntington Library situated a few blocks...
Views from the Sky
Experienced travellers are supposed to always take an aisle seat. I always asked for a window seat that “was not over the wing”. To me...
Claremont, March 1980
I think this may have been the trip when Nicky and I stayed in a house belonging to University colleagues of my friends while the...
Weekend Car Hire
The IUGG Assembly ran from Monday 3rd to Saturday 15th December. On the middle weekend I joined some colleagues from the Oceanography Institute in Wormley...
Sydney
At the end of the IUGG meeting a colleague and his wife from the Oceanography Institute invited me to drive down to Sydney with them....
Delhi – Jantar Mantar
Situated near the Imperial Hotel, the Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory built in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. Apparently...