Road trip to Hungary, part 11
The Shabby Trabi
Today was a day of rest. But I dis manage a snap of the “Shabby Trabi” – an old Trabant 601 parked up on a piece of wasteland near the centre of Pécs.
Today was a day of rest. But I dis manage a snap of the “Shabby Trabi” – an old Trabant 601 parked up on a piece of wasteland near the centre of Pécs.
Found myself near Cobden bridge, in Southampton, armed with my recently converted , “full spectrum” Lumix DMC-GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera. This was converted just before Christmas 2025 by Protech Photographic in Crowborough. So I thought I would capture some images of Cobden bridge by Infrared… Cobden bridge is a busy road and pedestrian bridge…
Today we drove through France down to Strasbourg and arrived safely at the gite.
This is by far my largest and longest focal-length lens. Rumour has it that the MTO 1000 mm catadioptric lens was “standard issue” to KGB surveillance operatives during the Cold War Era. MTO itself also has an interesting history. Seems it started out by making the huge glass reflectors for Russian anti-aircraft arc-lights. It made…
In fact, I am 416 kilometres away from Barnard Castle, as the crow flies, or about 500km by road. Granted, I very seldom use Google as a search engine. I use privacy-aware searches instead such as DuckDuckGo. I have also been to great lengths to prise my rooted smartphone from Google’s clutches too. But my…
Walking back to Pécs through the snow. Today, even the rougher prts of town have a strange beauty, now they’re covered with snow.
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