Corfe Castle
A road trip to Corfe Castle and Sandbanks, Dorset, in an MGF roadster. Includes a few snaps of the Sandbanks chain ferry.
This is how I converted three left-over cheapie (£60 for a box of ten, delivered) 20 watt daylight LED flood lights for use in the studio. The basic tools you need:- Vernier or digital caliper, M10 ISO metric taps. Suitable spanner (17mm AF). Bench vice. Electrician’s screwdriver and wire strippers, to make the electrical connections….
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Leaving Strasbourg > dipping briefly into Switzerland Other days Part 1 Part 2 You are here: Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17
A few snaps around Mui Wo, the massive bike sheds and some of the vessels that dock there.